SLOUCHING
QUOTES

"A welcome dose of provocatively brain-tickling social satire.… richly comic and acute … peppy and sharply satiric."

"Ian Shoales, incorrigible social critic and intellectual gadfly, is back at the Marsh holding forth on everything that puzzles or just plain bugs him. That covers a lot of ground…"

"Kessler's acerbic Shoales … can always be counted on for a welcome dose of provocatively brain-tickling social satire.  "

" 'Slouching' is a classic Shoales outing. Kessler prowls the stage in a gray suit and tie that match his hair, delivering his lines with his trademark worried scowl - or picking up a guitar or banjo for a sardonic song. Brody, in droopy mustache and Litquake T-shirt, partakes in the occasional quick trade-off of quips and accompanies the songs on piano, accordion and backup vocals."

" 'Slouching' doesn't so much explore the history of human thought and culture as riff on various aspects of those topics, caroming from one millennium to another with the speed of wayward allusions. New Testament stories get mixed up with Plato's prowess as a wrestler and thoughts on the rise and fall of Hollywood before bouncing back to Rome."

"…richly comic and acute - a surreal tale of various prototypes for the robotic Abraham Lincoln at the 1964 World's Fair; a hilariously off-color rumination on images of the Virgin Mary cropping up in unlikely places. The well-written songs are peppy and sharply satiric, ranging from a caveman's remarkably astute musings on the future of humanity and a mock-philosophic "Song of the 16th Century" to a convoluted take on re-enactments of re-enactments of famous events."

-- Hurwitt, Chronicle

"Slouching toward Disneyland is the most cynical, and intricately knowledgeable, history of so-called civilization I have ever seen.  "

Goodwyn, Bay Times