When I realized we were going to be in Charleston DURING Spoleto I almost cried. I have not been able to attend a Spoleto event since Jenn was a toddler and every year I’ve said “next year, I’ll be there!” and every year… it didn’t work out.

I quickly ran to see what kind of tickets were available for the days we were in Charleston and rather than being disappointed that most events were already sold out, I patiently clicked through everything available and bravely selected two shows that would fit into our time schedule. Both are actually “Piccolo Spoleto” events and one was “Piccolo Fringe“. (You have to learn a whole new vocabulary to understand Spoleto.)

We saw the first last night and this is the one I was most concerned about.

Banana Monologues

A stand-up show about One relationship, where One woman gave One man the best sex of his life… and all the crap to go with it. This is the subject matter of the hilarious one-man show, “

Misogynistic much? Yep, but it was funny and from the reactions of the small audience in the very small and interesting American Theater most people agreed. The older men in front of us were most appreciative of the monologue. The women they were with laughed almost as much but… not quite. And that was interesting as well.

I spent some time thinking about how many times I have seen middle age men get up and leave during the first 15 minutes of the Vagina Monologues and pondering why those men couldn’t handle that show yet women didn’t get up and walk out of Banana Monologues. Why is that? Patriarchy maybe? 😉

We enjoyed it. Really.

And tonight, Always Patsy Cline… heh.