LOBSTER ALICE

Broad comedy in a 50 seat theatre is no easy feat, but the expert cast and production of ‘Lobster Alice’, the psychological comedy at The Blank Theatre Company’s 2nd Stage Theatre in Hollywood accomplishes it fantastically.

Set in a Walt Disney Studios production office in 1946, Salvador Dali arrives to help an animate animator and his secretary Alice develop ‘Alice In Wonderland’, Things quickly become curiouser and curiouser as the creative process clashes with the limits of reality. It’s a madcap mind fuck.

Things are kept perfectly on edge under the expert direction of Daniel Henning. The fine ensemble cast shines brightly.
Noah Wyle gives a performance of such depth and passion with expert comic timing one wonders how this much talent hasn’t been unearthed before (or if it has we weren’t looking.) His salvador Dali exudes charm, intellect, passion, charisma, sexuality & comedy integrally.

Dorie Barton’s Alice is hungry for life, her spunky quizzativeness is at one moment innocence, the next seductress. She’s a delight to watch.

Going on for Nicholas Brendon (Buffy, The Vampire Slayer), Eddie Mills is milk toast personified. Reminiscent of Matthew Broderick or Jack Lemmon being drug through hell, kicking and screaming, to the depraved world that’s Dali’s Wonderland.

A hoot and a holler, ‘Lobster Alice’ is L.A.’s best kept secret. Let’s get the word out.