| Thalia is the Muse of Comedy, but the comedy is more Syd than Julius Caesar. A down at the heels ambulance chaser comes to Thalia’s city, Thaliopolis, to carry on his practice in a town with a sense of humor. Instead, he finds himself embroiled in desperate struggles. — Bloodthirsty Spartans besiege the city! — He falls in love with the fiancé of the local grandee! — Two titanic gods embroil the lovers in their ferocious rivalry for the hand of the Comic Muse! — His father’s ghost in a special guest appearance! It’s stuff you’ve seen before if you’ve read Cliff’s Notes on Aristophanes, or seen any old Bob Hope movies, but Ari, Mr. Hope and even Cliff would have to admit they never saw the laughs laid out quite like this! NOTE: The author is well aware that he has confounded the names of Greek gods with those of the Romans, and that he has confounded the ancient concept of comedy with that of his recent vaudevillian ancestors, and that confound it, you can go confound yourself with someone else’s confounded story if that confounds you. No hard confounded feelings. Really. |
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