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We're all guilty of watching VH1's "outrageous" "specials", featuring people who probably don't know Britney Spears talking for one hour about "Why Britney is SO OUTRAGEOUS", or whatever. Fifteen minutes on why she eats cheetos, FIFTEEN. You know you watch these specials, it's okay, so do we.
Gothamist will be checking out Marc Spitz's new play on this whole tv genre entitled The Name Of This Play Is Talking Heads*. Spitz is an expert, as a senior writer at SPIN magazine he's been a talking head himself. Below is a summary of this, his seventh, play:
The Name of This Play is Talking Heads skewers the vapidity of music punditry on networks like MTV and VH-1. Talking Heads takes place backstage at your garden variety music channel where an innocuous music journalist for a reputable industry magazine prepares to make his first appearance on a show of this nature. In this case it is the Top 100 Most Rockatrocious Moments in History. When he witnesses how the obligatory comedian taping his segment is being force fed material and told what to say, he is shocked that these experts were not only amateurs, but they had no insight or integrity at all. When he decides to rail against the system the results may have fatal consequences!
So get off the couch and stop watching shows about shocking! celebrity! moments!, and watch a play (about the shows about the shocking celebrity moments.)
The Name Of This Play Is Talking Heads starts tomorrow, March 3, and runs through March 26. Thursdays and Fridays at 8, Saturdays at 8 and 10, UNDER St. Marks Theater [94 St. Marks Place (bet. First Ave. and Ave. A)]
Tickets are $15 and can be puchased here.
*The name of this play is David Byrne approved.
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Love the idea of this. But there's no way these actors can be as vapid...can they?
That is not the real Captain Obvious. I'm not a social vigilante, but speak my mind.
And in this case, this play is awesome!
Seriously, this idea and commentary on VH1/MTV talking head shows is long due. For what it's worth the main reason those shows are so popular to produce is they are so cheap to produce.
Just get some D level local star or comedian to sit in front of a camera and say witty stuff. Edit it together with more talking heads. Add in file footage. And what do you have? Instant low attention span show!
Anyone can do it and I'm shocked at how long it's taken for VH1 and MTV to do it. But now that it's done, it deserves a good roasting.