By Avila

Originally published from SFBG, 2004.
(c) 2004, All rights reserved.

Marc Vogl directs fellow member of San Francisco-based sketch-comedy troupe Killing My Lobster in a liberating silly take on electoral politics, the presidential race, the so-called war on terror, and the meaning of gay marriage in late Victorian England.

Company members Tonya Glanz, John Kovacevich, Daniel Lee, Sarah Mitchell, Shay Troha, and Jon Wolanske impersonate news anchors, political consultants, swing voters, and morally and physically challenged candidates, while Nick Olivero and Sean Christensen are bearded 15-year-old campaign interns, in two acts' worth of skits, shadow puppetry, short film, and animation that send up the political animals you love to hate, or love to love only too well (including local hero Matt Gonzalez amid his would-have-been-groovy mayoral headquarters at the Horseshoe Café in the Lower Haight).  Plucky and infectious, the writing here contains some of the best from KML in a while, and guided by the group's always first-rate comedic acting-as well as a six-piece band that really knows how to swing the vote-this is likely your antidote to the Nov. 2 blues.