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REVIEW: Ferguson's "Super Monkey": A theatrical zoo of outrageous characters
by Jay Gabler, TCDailyPlanet
When I was in high school, I had an afternoon job answering phones at my school's front desk. Each day, a parade of people would come through and make conversation-sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Members of the dance team would take turns coming in and complaining about each other, teachers would come in to crank out quizzes on the mimeograph machine (they weren't supposed to use the more-expensive copier, but of course I'd "let" them), busybody parents would come trolling for gossip, and pretty girls would come in and giggle at me answering the phone ("Hello, St. Agnes High School, student speaking!"), then break down in tears and tell me about how their parents just didn't understand. There was a poignant absurdity to the whole scenario, a poignant absurdity that is at the heart of Jon Ferguson's new play Super Monkey.