Takes From The Stage: Mama's Chicken
In the year 1991, I joined up with a group called The Young Actors Workshop in San Pablo, California. It was a gaggle of kids age 8-18, and we would be performing monkeys for the adults to enjoy. In some cases, some of us were literally performing monkeys. It was humiliation like none other. I have many happy memories there, but I also have memories that I wish I could forget. Alas....I can't. So instead, I shall write about them from time to time. This is one of those times. In the first summer of my time at YAW, (the acronym for it), a woman named June was in charge. She had this idea to do a sketch comedy show around Dracula. It had all the appeal of seeing Whoopi Goldberg naked to us kids. So instead we went with Heroes vs Villains in a show called Heroes Of The Future Right Now. Catchy, eh? The show did have a couple of Dracula carry over that was fun, but that needed to die badly in a blaze of glory was called ‘Mama’s Chicken’. It was offensive as fuck. It may have se...