The choice between one’s insane wife of 20 years and one’s star-struck girlfriend who withholds her divine cooking skills and instead provides sexual intimacy is an extremely complicated one. Artie Shaughnessy (Mike Gibson) certainly knew the difficulties of such a decision as he and his family endured the visit of the Pope and the chaos that resulted. McLean High School presented John Guare’s “The House of Blue Leaves” with a style that emphasized nicely the dark humor of the script.
(more…)