The family's theater plans

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From: Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
Date: 20051222
Author:Tom Hennessy

Once again, Bodega Bay is on my family's radar.

That means it is time for our annual family gathering in the little (but growing) coastal town in Northern California.

The bad news about this, especially bad on the theatrical circuit, is that the Atrocious Bodega Players, our family's troupe of absolutely wretched actors, is taking to the boards again.

After distorting Alfred Hitchcock's film, "The Birds," two years ago with our videotaped play, "The Birds R Us," we are about to assault another creative genius.

His name is Carlo Collodi, and from 1881 to 1883, he published, in serial form, the ...

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