Red and Rover Stage Jacobean Turkey Tragedy

As the father of a couple of present-day elementary schoolers, I can attest that the holiday-themed school play—an entertainment staple of my own 1960s childhood, and popular comic fodder for Peanuts well into the 1980s—has gone the way of vaudeville and temperance lectures. There just isn’t an audience for the genre anymore. When both parents have full-time jobs, no one can make the matinees.
So kudos to Red & Rover (wrought by Brian “Adam@Home” Bassett and Rob “Big Top” Harrell, and found on the invaluable gocomics.com) for persisting in an old joke scenario which has about as much relevance as if the boy and dog were stranded on a desert island. They’re my favorite theater revivalists of today.