It’s 7:30 pm, the crowds are gathered in the BVSW auditorium. An abrupt silence falls as Matara Hitchcock shuffles onto stage. The jumbled articulations of a teen giving an awkward presentation fall over the “class”. Halfway through her speech, Jake Louis invades the stage and the hilarity of ego versus ego ensues.

The Theater Department’s production of “The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza” retells the myths of Greek lore while injecting new age flair and a good dose of comedy simultaneously.

For instance, in one scene, the daring Trojan Horse escapade was reenacted with army men. In another, Hector (Hersh Ellis) and Achilles (Colin Bennett) fight a Luke vs Vader light-saber duel to the death with hector doing a Inigo Montoya impersonation, which got the  whole crowd roaring with laughter. Speaking of roaring, halfway through the play a planted actor was called on stage for the “name that mythical creature” game show. The audience was called on the do a chimera (goat,lion,dragon crossbreed) impersonation, and they did not disappoint.

With well known characters such as Zeus (Colin Bennett) to the obscure Alcmene (Hannah Seyl) to ridiculous add ins such as Hercules’s guidance counselor (Lauren Mylin) the cast was as diverse as they were talented.

Showed on April 19-21, the show indeed blew our previous two comedies out of the water, but the extra dosage of funny came at a price. The humor was slightly more racey, and potentially turned off some viewers. As an example, the sexist humor of the play was not as well balanced as it could have been, with numerous feminine inferiority ploys, and only one real punch in the gut (in the most literal sense) to the opposing masculine side.

The less appropriate sections were made up for, however, by reference humor to almost every subculture: by the end Shakespeare was quoted, the starwarsian empires of Greece defeated, and by a Trojan Sponge bob no less.

When the final bow was made, and the ending curtain closed, the play (though risque at times) was a definite success.