←Recommendations of Bay Orchard High

  • Danielle Wirsansky: Bay Orchard High by David Hilder
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    Bay Orchard High is a wild, campy thrill ride full of high school tropes turned upside down. With its mix of lust, revenge, and pom-poms, it's a deliciously silly, supernatural romp. The dialogue is sharp, the characters are absurd, and the twist will leave you laughing out loud!

    Bay Orchard High is a wild, campy thrill ride full of high school tropes turned upside down. With its mix of lust, revenge, and pom-poms, it's a deliciously silly, supernatural romp. The dialogue is sharp, the characters are absurd, and the twist will leave you laughing out loud!

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  • Eric Pfeffinger: Bay Orchard High by David Hilder
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    Holy crap, what a wild ride this play is. It's like if the love child of John Waters, Charles Ludlam and Kelly Kapowski grew up and became class president at a Sunnydale High where the most popular extracurricular activities are varsity exposition and intramural subtext. The laughs are real and nonstop, the inventive staging challenges are irresistible and the cast is gonna have a ball. Would love to see this play on its weird demented feet.

    Holy crap, what a wild ride this play is. It's like if the love child of John Waters, Charles Ludlam and Kelly Kapowski grew up and became class president at a Sunnydale High where the most popular extracurricular activities are varsity exposition and intramural subtext. The laughs are real and nonstop, the inventive staging challenges are irresistible and the cast is gonna have a ball. Would love to see this play on its weird demented feet.

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  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend: Bay Orchard High by David Hilder
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    Ah, a typical slice-of-life high school play - except no, this is BONKERS. All the high school tropes are here, lovingly being made fun of, but it's also mysterious and supernatural and deeply, deeply silly. The two hapless boys were my favorites, but every character is a gift - even for the adult actor who gets to play all the grownups. High school has never been so much deadly fun.

    Ah, a typical slice-of-life high school play - except no, this is BONKERS. All the high school tropes are here, lovingly being made fun of, but it's also mysterious and supernatural and deeply, deeply silly. The two hapless boys were my favorites, but every character is a gift - even for the adult actor who gets to play all the grownups. High school has never been so much deadly fun.

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  • Aly Kantor: Bay Orchard High by David Hilder
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    Dear Computer Journal: It's Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Bring It On meets Riverdale! It has campy splendor in abundance and all your favorite tropes from page one, with delightful subversions throughout! The syntax of the dialogue is ridiculous, and the internal joke structure is consistently spot-on! And, god, the SNORT I let out at the very end of the play! I can say with some confidence that you will not see the twist coming. An irreverent delight for the teenage set! Plain stupid fun!

    Dear Computer Journal: It's Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Bring It On meets Riverdale! It has campy splendor in abundance and all your favorite tropes from page one, with delightful subversions throughout! The syntax of the dialogue is ridiculous, and the internal joke structure is consistently spot-on! And, god, the SNORT I let out at the very end of the play! I can say with some confidence that you will not see the twist coming. An irreverent delight for the teenage set! Plain stupid fun!

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  • Vince Gatton: Bay Orchard High by David Hilder
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    Nancy Drew meets Charles Busch meets Mel Brooks in this bonkers sunny-noir high school psychodrama. And honestly, who couldn't use a bonkers sunny-noir high school psychodrama these days? David Hilder has served up a heaping helping of camptastic, splendiforous madness, with jokes so stupid you know they're smart. (And vice versa, honestly.) Prepare to cackle, and groan, and cackle some more.

    Nancy Drew meets Charles Busch meets Mel Brooks in this bonkers sunny-noir high school psychodrama. And honestly, who couldn't use a bonkers sunny-noir high school psychodrama these days? David Hilder has served up a heaping helping of camptastic, splendiforous madness, with jokes so stupid you know they're smart. (And vice versa, honestly.) Prepare to cackle, and groan, and cackle some more.

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