The Stakeout

All of us, in the company of my mom, went to see The Stakeout tonight. The show is part of BYU's Bravo! Series and sounded like it would be really funny. The description said, "The Stakeout is a comedy drama about two men on a stake out of two men who may be on a stakeout of them. It's a head trip about fathers, sons, and one's sense of self." 

It is a two-man show. For one of the characters, it is his first day on the job and for the other, it is his last day. They spend most of the show sitting on two chairs in the middle of the stage talking. Their conversation turns to fathers leaving families (the younger man's father left and other older man is a father who left), working through those hard emotions, and connecting. Several lines were very funny, and I wrote them down because I wanted to remember. 

"Exile your heart to the dungeon in your foot."

"Lesson #1: No emotion. They bumped it up to the top."

"What matters is the plunging to your doom."

        "Seen any good vistas?"

        "Do you know cry?" "Yes, I am aware of cry."

While it was funny, it was also very touching and made me cry at the end. I think we all liked it. We also saw Gary and Gail Johnsen who were sitting right next to us in the same row. They took our picture and we took theirs.