Enter a badger, rabid, with pie

Rabid fans of the Rabid Badger Theatre Company accelerated wildly to the Madison Center for Creative and Cultural Arts (MCCCA) on September 30 for the company’s new show of comedy and satire, Punch and Pie. This Saturday, Dec 2, the company will give an encore performance of Punch and Pie at MCCCA, 7 p.m. The production features thirteen sketches (or maybe it’s fourteen) that, as with An Evening with the Rabid Badger, featured imaginative and amusing premises that were played out for just the right amount of time. Some of the characters from the previous show came back, but not in such a way that newcomers would feel left out.

Picking favorites for a performance like this is largely a matter of personal taste, especially given the variety in the types of humor employed. In my case, I especially enjoyed the darkly humorous funeral parlor sketch “The Relieved Bereaved,” which appeared toward the end. I also liked the “Service with a Smile” sketch that appeared at the beginning; charter Rabid Badger member Matt Schrader is fun to watch no matter what he’s in but I especially enjoyed his deranged glee in this one.

For the September 30 performance there were appropriate refreshments at the end of the show. If they do this again then, like Smoove B would say,

There will also be punch and pie.

Rabid Badger video clips are available from the Fun House section of their Web site and from Google Video.