Friday Jan 6 7:30 PM
We'll arrange a Group Dinner to meet before the show.
$11.50 Discount to Club Members
Friday Jan 6 7:30 PM
We'll arrange a Group Dinner to meet before the show.
$11.50 Discount to Club Members
"Caveman is a nationwide comic phenomenon!" The Longest Running Solo Comedy in Broadway history is now Atlanta`s favorite comedy hit starring Michael Van Osch. "Caveman" celebrates the differences between men and women and how those differences make us misunderstand each other. "Hysterically Funny!"--Variety. "A good laugh. Winning and likeable!"--Atlanta Journal.
- Ralph Blumenthal
Hysterically funny! As someone who has covered the theater off and on for a couple of decades, I'm as jaded as the next journalist, but I have to say that Becker made me laugh until tears rolled down my cheeks. People were holding their sides. The woman sitting next to me laughed until she choked.
For ninety minutes, Becker proceeds, with compassion as well as humor, to outline the idea that there are real reasons for our differences, possibly even genetic reasons whose origins are buried in the millennia of human evolution; and instead of judging the opposite sex according to one's own gender based standards, it is possible to recognize the differences and accept them without hostile judgment.
Becker sends you out of the theater with a smile on your face. You feel less alone. Couples who were arguing before the performance stroll out into the night afterward holding hands. You know there's going to be some serious snuggling going on when they get home. Seems to me that's well worth the price of admission.
- Leslie Bennetts"Hilarious Caveman is full of keen detail"
- Christine Dolan
"While Becker is out to dispell the notion that all men are jerks, he does so in a way that is designed to promote understanding between the sexes. And judging from the uniformly uproarious response, his observations play equally well to both sides of the divide."
-Vit Wagner, Theater Ciritc, TORONTO STAR
"Despite the club-wielding Neanderthal ring of it's title, Rob Becker's one-man show, "Defending the Caveman," is a surprisingly sweet, gently comic, even sentimental little celebration of the male and female of the species.
Becker may spend most of his 90 minute performance amusingly cataloguing the instantly recognizable traits that differentiate the sexes, but the underlying message of all of his observations is that out of these differences springs the potential for bridge building rather than perpetual warfare.
He has found a way to mine the commonplaces of heterosexual relationships that goes straight to the funny bone. His affection for women, in tandem with his light-hearted defense of men, puts him in a win-win situation. In his hands, the fireworks of the sexual revolution have been melted into friendly fire."
- Hedy Weiss
"It is comforting to be assured that we are part of an ongoing family -- the cave people from inner space."
- Clive Barnes
"(H)umorous insights about contemporary feminism, masculine sensitivity, and the erogenous zone. A genuine word-of-mouth hit, it shows no sign of fading."
- Stephen Schaefer
"The sensation of the year!"
- Richard Christiansen, Theater Critic
Other articles:
Becker's `Caveman' Evolves Into A Sensation
- Sid Smith, Tribune Arts Critic, Thursday, September 15, 1994.
Word's Out and `Caveman' Sails Away
- Sid Smith, Tribune Arts Critic., Thursday, May 26, 1994.
Interview
- Cheryl Lavin, Sunday, June 5, 1994 .
"How does Becker explain Caveman's success? "I think the show gives people a way to understand themselves and their partners while they're laughing and I think some healing takes place when a couple sits in a darkened theater, laughing with hundreds of other couples, realizing they're not alone."
It took more than three years to write the complete show, which was first presented in 1991 in San Francisco. He knew he was onto something after working on the show in 1987 and soon developed the theme that the struggles between a man and a woman can be understood by thinking of them as coming from two different cultures.
He also feels that he has tapped into a current societal wave. "I think a whole generation is catching on to the idea that we can work for equality between the sexes AND we can bring harmony to our relationships by understanding our differences.""
- John Wolfe
"Outrageously funny! Caveman explores all of the things that make men and women fight, laugh, and love."
- Deborah Bradley
Raves for Chris Sullivan and Kevin Burke
Broadway play helps sexes understand each other
By ADRIENNE BROADDUS
The State News
TYLER SIPE The State News
Kevin Burke, star of the Broadway hit "Defending the Caveman," entertains the crowd at the Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre Tuesday night. The comedic hit is the longest-running solo play in Broadway history
Don't waste your hard-earned dollar bills on relationship self-help books - Kevin Burke is all the help you need. Burke, star of the longest-running, nonmusical, solo-performance show in Broadway history, Rob Becker's "Defending the Caveman," can explain the differences between the sexes better than any book can.
The title of the show, which opened Tuesday night in the Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre, comes from the original author's observation that the differences between men and women date back to prehistoric times. Burke concludes men are hunters and women are gatherers. For about an hour and 40 minutes, he offers a variety of hilarious situations to prove the hunter/gatherer analogy still exists.
As hunters, men concentrate on their prey to the exclusion of everything else. Today, this parallels with a man and the television. " A man doesn't just watch television, he becomes one with the TV, blocking everything else out," Burke said.
Because of this, women do not understand why their significant others zone out while watching the tube, he said. Flicking through the channels dates back to cave times - the man is killing the channels. Women, on the other hand, stop at each channel and gather information instead of just flicking through, he said.
The show begins with the voice of a woman repeating, "Men are all assholes," with Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract" playing in the background. Of course, all the women in the audience laughed hysterically and the men silently chuckled. But Burke urged women to think of men as being different instead of calling them assholes. He continued by explaining that men do everything by negotiation and women by cooperation. When the two are forced to interact with each other, they work on different levels.
For example, when presented with an empty potato-chip bowl, men will debate over who is going to refill the bowl, whereas women will go to the kitchen and talk while they refill the bowl together.
Despite the limited scenery, which consists of a stone-age-esque TV, an armchair and a sphere, Burke paints a vivid picture for every situation he explains, which almost everyone can relate to.
Not many comedians can keep the attention span of an audience for an hour and 40 minutes, but Burke does just that. Not only does he entertain with his stand-up comic approach, but he informs both genders about each other.
Did you know that men generally speak about 2,000 words a day and women 7,000? Men, Burke explains, bond and communicate by sharing long periods of silence and occasional name-calling, whereas women bond by gossiping, processing things and sharing emotional insights. That explains why men are never able to tell women details about their night out with the guys - they don't talk.
" Defending the Caveman" is a great show to see if you and your significant other are in need of therapy or if you and your buddies just want to hang out and have a good laugh.
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