Who’s That Doctor?, Hi-Volt Theatre Company, at Stage Left Theatre. Half-assed production values, story lines, and special effects are so central to BBC sci-fi that a parody of such programs does bloody well to play the fool at every turn. This send-up of cult favorite Dr. Who, staged by Harry Bauer, has the buffoonery down, from anthropomorphic space monsters to fashion-victim villainwear to dawdling teleplay; best is disaffected stagehand Mr. Bottles, stomping on- and offstage midscene to change backdrops or reorient robotic sidekick K9. Some of the sketchiness is unaffected–two brand-new episodes go up every weekend–and the whole approach is intentionally loose and unpretentious. But while often amusing, the installment I saw was generally too distant from its targets to develop a comic groove, making the interruptions most of the entertainment.
