The Pride

Issue date: 11/18/08 Section: Arts & Entertainment

Media Credit: Jenni Girtman

"Defending the Caveman" is a refreshingly humorous look at the differences between men and women. The one-man play showed from November 11 - 16 at Balboa Theatre 868 4th Ave. in San Diego.

Created by comedian, Rob Becker, "Defending the Caveman", is available in 16 languages and shown in 35 countries. The global success of the show is a testament to the relevance of the gender topic in heterosexual relationships.

Performing "Defending the Caveman" at the Balboa Theatre was actor Isaac Lamb. The modestly decorated stage displayed a few of prehistoric artifacts along with a cave version of a stone couch and TV. There was also a replica of the Venus of Willendorf, The Great Goddess of Laussel, and the painting of the man and the bison discovered in Lascaux, France. Lamb used the images discovered from prehistory to begin illustrating the two different cultures of men and women.

Lamb journeyed the audience through a vision that he had of the differences between men and women revealed to him by the "the caveman." The vision demonstrated how women and men are closer to different cultures than the same one. Looking at the differences in that light Lamb walked the audience through a hysterical narrative of caveman evolution applying the roles of caveman and cavewomen to the roles that we continue to perform today.

Lamb took examples all too well known by couples that inhabit the same space. The relevance and truth in the examples linked with the evolutionary development of men and women disarm the battle of the sexes and makes way for laughter instead of war.

Being able to understand that everyone goes through similar experiences in his or her own relationships kept the audience in consistent laughter throughout the two-hour program.

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