The Braggart Soldier, or Major Blowhard

Gough Street Playhouse
1620 Gough St San Francisco

A hilarious and sexy world-premiere adaptation of the Roman comedy, The Braggart Soldier, or Major Blowhard is full of jokes and clever hijinks. A prolific pillar of the stage of yore, playwright Plautus riffed on a slew of archetypal Greek characters in his wildly popular comedies. The cunning slave and the lascivious old man frequent his 20 surviving plays as well as the pompous military man, which Custom Made Theatre takes on in The Braggart Soldier, or Major Blowhard. Updated for the 21st century, this irreverent play retains the low-brow humor of Plautus' era and mixes it with classic characters and situations you'll recognize from Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Charlie Chaplin's films and 30 Rock. It's a 70-minute laugh fest at San Francisco's Gough Street Playhouse.