Citizen-Times.com – Jim Cavener – Take5 Correspondent
Billing a tense and graphic theater experience about a gay-bashing hate crime as a comedy has inherent risks.
Scapegoat Theatre Collective’s fine “Weldon Rising” is a case in point. The script does call for comedic devices, and there is ample opportunity gales of laughter.
But in the current production at downtown Asheville’s BeBe Theatre, the audience is torn between responding to horror before its very eyes and enjoying the stereotypical drag queen who always refers to herself in the third person.