Duct tape and yuks: holding comedy hostage
How strange it is to see two wildly different comedies at two different theaters and find they have something in common: plot twists that involve the restraining of characters by tying them down with duct tape. Since when did that become an element of slapstick? Has someone alerted Abbott and Costello? At the SF Playhouse, more than half the cast spends the second act bound to chairs with duct tape and plastic …