Dilbert Dingle-Dong is a wild and wooly tour through the fractured and fabulous imagination of Ethyl Eichelberger, with some winks and nods to Moliere, Shakespeare, and Ludlam along the way.

The story, such as it is, concerns Dilbert Dingle-Dong, a poor dirt farmer who strikes oil on his property, his gold-digging wife, her hairdresser/lover, her silent screen movie star mother, their over-sexed daughter, and the family maid, a luscious creature given to speaking in strange and oft-changing accents. However the plot is just the runway that gives flight to hilarious theatrics by this abundantly talented cast.

Eichelberger plays Dilbert as a put-upon Everyman, longing for love and happiness but finding only pain, betrayal, and despair. Dilbert looks like Clint Eastwood had a child by Lily Tomlin and they breast fed it LSD, with a face that leaps across the footlights, a voice that spits out words like a machine gun, and eyes that contain a melancholy comic bewilderment reminiscent of Chaplin; this wildly energetic performance is a must-see.

As La Dona, Black-eyed Susan is ravishingly sexy, regal, and very funny. Playing her mother Dolly, Mahogany Plywood is a scream, all eyes and hauteur. Wendy Wild makes the maid a nifty little tart indeed. As the studly Valentine, the paramour who is cuckolding our sweet hero, Jonathan Baker is perfect, the very model of a classic cockswain.

As for Miss Joan Marie Moossy as Bebe, Dingle's very horny daughter, this is a performance that screams star; in less stellar company this doll would have walked off with the show. As a plot device named Fred, who swings in on a rope at the end of the show, Glen Santiago is magical.

The costumes are truly beyond fabulous: constructed mostly of Hefty bags, they are dazzling and hilarious-bravos to the multi-talented Mr. Fashion. Although this is first and last entertainment, Ethyl Eichelberger obviously has a nimble mind well versed in the current political climate and a heart filled with love for gay people. This show is further proof that gay people have developed a mad, fabulous, extraordinary and inspiring sensibility that is a beacon of light in the dark and dreary world of Straightsville, U.S.A.