How to Build Bombs and Influence People
Is actually the subtitle of the play Soft Click of a Switch; however, that title is somewhat misleading. Although building and detonating bombs does come into it, the play is actually about how alienated ineffectual males turn to violent destruction to regain a sense of purpose, albeit skewered, and feel that they have a place in the world.
Tom Lehrer decided that political satire was obsolete when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Prize…..for Peace.
Hit and Run Theatre opened Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, a Musical Review of Tom Lehrer’s songs, directed by Arne Zaslove with Musical Direction by John Engerman at West of Lenin Theatre in Fremont, on Thursday night.
A mathematician by training, Tom Lehrer was a songwriter who specialized in extremely risque social and political satire, from the late 40’s to the early‘60’s, when the definition of risqué was completely different from what it is now.
