Regardless, the two of us have been writing and directing together for over ten years. Brought together by a mutual respect for Mel Brooks and Star Wars, we've always tried to land somewhere in between-- creating work that is delightfully irreverent and irreverently imaginative.
We've dramatized the little known-but-true story of the Beatles putting on a musical of The Lord of the Rings; we've turned Game of Thrones into a bed-time story for children; we've created a one-man show where the actor dies five minutes in; and we've made a stage adaptation of a punctuation mark.
Our work is guided by what we find cool or strange or unbelievable. We combine sardonic wit and lo-fi theatrical whimsy to tell real stories with real heart. And we never underestimate the forceful potential of laughter.
The same person, on two different occasions, described our work as "the funniest thing seen on this stage in thirty years" and "perhaps too ambitious. Well, I guess they learned their lesson."
We didn't.