First, pizza.
It is hard to find good pizza here. This is not a big deal to me because I don't eat it much. Normally, they take a round piece of bread, smear tomato sauce over the bread, then cheese and put it in the oven resulting in a HARD, tasteless thing that is terrible.
Two places now actually make pizza from scratch. Because everyone makes such a big deal out of it, I do eat pizza from time to time, just getting caught up in the, "Oh my God, they make real pizza!" thing.
My main reason to go to Guari Guari was to eat the pizza and support my friends who are making it. People have to get creative to make money in Boquete. They offered to go in to Guari Guari and make the pizza, the bar owner doesn't do anything but let them in.
Supporting friends is a big deal here. You will hear this a lot. It is one of the better things about Boquete.
Now, on to the Improv.
We have a world class actress in town who was professional and hit the big time before retiring to Panama. She has directed and acted in the local community theater and is really good. Head and shoulders better than anyone else. Watching her act is a rare privilege.
Because she and only she was running the Improv, I agreed to go. What a mistake. It was so uncomfortable I could hardly finish my pizza. There were only 12 people there and no one wanted to do it so the atmosphere was resistant and strained. This is a very public sort of thing so it was a disaster. Even with the stifling atmosphere, she was brilliant but it was just too weird for me to appreciate it.
Well, at least we supported our friends making the pizza.
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