Chicago City Limits Minnelli on Minnelli  Midnight Brainwash
Revival  By New York City  Imagine: Two advertising men arguing
over about which is the more potent medium, TV or radio. One ad
man cites TV: "Say I'm selling whipped cream: I can show a
delicious hot fudge sundae covered in it." "But on the radio,"
the other ad man adds, "I can dig up all of Central Park, fill
it with whipped cream three stories high and fly in a 40-ton
cherry." Words, the point is, have the power to tickle the
imagination and induce images that are impossible to capture
otherwise.  Downtown playwright Kirk Wood Bromley knows this,
and in his new work, Midnight Brainwash Revival, a screwball
epic that's part King Lear, part Cheech and Chong movie, he is
drunk on colorful slang, pop poetry and words, words, words.
Like all of Bromley's plays, this one is in verse. Set in the
fictional Southwestern town of Maob, Midnight Brainwash Revival
concerns a battle of wills between a brother and sister over the
property left to them by their