Dancing Nude
Dancing Nude
By Tim Mooney
Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre
Pink Venue, 2010 Orlando International Fringe Festival</strong>
If they gave awards for accurate show nomenclature, this one ought to win. Fringe veteran Tim Mooney (Moliere Than Thou, Criterion, Karaoke Nights) returns with a high energy meditation on male sexuality. Using first person horror stories and poetic monologs, the show is filled with innuendo and clever word play. Mooney describes his sexual growth from that first awkward prom date to agonizingly slow colligate level sexual discovery to the mandatory bad marriage. Clever poems like “Things That Stick Out” with its Seussian meter to and “Naked Beneath” ease Mooney out of his Chicago snow shoveling outfit and into the mildly kinky and the nicely back lit “Fit To Be Tied”. He even delivers one of the most delicately worded descriptions of oral sex you’ll ever hear, using the word “Circumnavigate” in a way even the OED doesn’t cover.
There are a few technical rough spots, but as the clock ticks down we arrive at the point he’s hinted at in the publicity for this show: Will the audience get naked? He asks them if he should shed his under shirt, boxers, and thong, and naturally someone always agrees. As he strips, he asks the audience to join him in a stand of solidarity against Clothing in Public. Two men and a woman pull their shirts off and wave them like enthusiastic sports fans after a touchdown. Mooney is now down to a discretely placed hand, and it looks like more of the audience will join him but, oh, no! His time is up! As the audience files out, Mooney does a lively dance, and sets a reference for all the men in the audience who were never sure about relative sizes. This showed ended too soon, that girl in the third row had promise.
This event is part of the 2010 Orlando International Fringe Festival. For schedule and ticket information, please visit http://OrlandoFringe.org
