By Kathleen McAleese
Staff Writer

Recently produced by WATA, “Code Monkey” is an hilarious comedy. It had the crowd roaring with laughter. Starring Nick Nudler and Leah Detolla, the play is about an intern who works at Notanevil Drug Company and falls head over heals for a lab assistant, Laura (Detolla). When Laura gets kidnapped by the evil boss of the company, Tom, the intern, goes to rescue her.

The cast of the production included thirty-eight students, most of whom were in the ensemble.

The plot is built around a set of songs, all written by Jonathan Coulton, and was written and directed by Dr. Luke Jorgensen after he discovered Coulton’s music.  Jorgensen said he was fascinated by the “theatricality of the songs and set about to write a show that would feature this music.”

Everything from the ushers’ outfits to the program were done well. One complaint from several of the audience members was that the sound was very low. Also, even the actors admit to a lack of plot in the play. However, the great singing by Nudler, Detolla, Jillian Frankel, and Chris Kandra, and the rest of the cast balanced out the imperfections.

Code Monkey was a very strange play, with outrageous makeup and plot. Nothing about it was low-key.