The similarities stop there. There were lots of double entendres and dirty jokes because half the cast was comprised of vulgar prostitutes, Zeller says. My favorite parts were Hyde s scenes because the actor portrayed the character like a 1920s silent film actor, over the top and cartoonish.
Just like all of Pocket Sandwich s melodramatic comedies, Dickinson wanted the audience to be involved in the story, the drama and the jokes. The 76 original scripts written for the theater by more than 200 local playwrights are strewn with hilarious innuendo and dramatic irony, all delivered with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, with colorful characters who look and sound as though they jumped out of a