Play "spoofs" Esperanto

KriZe's picture

I have come across reviews of this play before, one called All In The Timing, which features four vignettes, the last of which plays off of Esperanto.

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The undisputed highlight of the afternoon was The Universal Language, a gem of a play in which a nervous woman enters a storefront school to sign up for a course in Unamunda, a clever spoof of Esperanto. The school's founder and sole instructor speaks mainly in this foreign tongue and eventually, the audience began to understand every strange word.

Has this play ever been recenzita by an Esperantist?

I'm reminded a little of Homebody/Kabul, which played at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago a few years back. Esperanto has an interesting role in the story. I helped coach the actor on Esperanto. Had I known a bit more about it in advance, I would have tried to squeeze a little publicity out of the play, and possibly get a mention in the showbill. If either of these shows pop up elsewhere, perhaps the local Esperanto club can do that, otherwise people just assume Esperanto is dead.

I saw "All in the timing"

I saw "All in the timing" performed in Austin a few years ago, I think before I got interested in Esperanto. Unlike "Homebody/Kabul", it's not about Esperanto per se, plus it makes fun of the idea of a Newspeak-ish universal language and of the teacher who is a bit of a charlatan, so I don't know how useful it would be as an Esperanto recruitment tool. :) It was witty and fun, and as I recall everyone in my group enjoyed it.