A tip of the bowler to Studio

Published April 4, 2008 4:00am ET



If you like clowning-good old-fashioned pratfall — and-slapstick clowning — then you’ll appreciate the first production of rainpan 43 at the Studio Theatre, “All Wear Bowlers.” A collaboration by Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford, “All Wear Bowlers” is a goofy mythic journey of two lost souls who stumble out of a silent film wasteland into a theater with no exit.

Sobelle and Lyford, who act the piece they have written, pack an extraordinary amount of classic joking into the short time they are onstage. In addition to the breathtakingly accurate timing with which they morph out of the film and back in again, there are visual antics, vaudeville routines and sleight-of-hand, as items — from eggs to apples — appear out of nowhere.

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