As tempted as I was to sing Simon & Garfunkel lyrics all the way, Wednesday’s Norwich PTSA event was not a debate in the traditional sense. “Meet the Candidates” was, however, every bit as entertaining.

Last year, coming off a string of high school play-related columns, I approached “Meet the Candidates” as a theatrical review. I thought myself pretty clever in that tack, until I realized that’s really the only way you can write about it.

The Kennedy-Nixon TV debates probably made the performance aspect of these things most obvious, but it remains true today: these “Meet the Candidates” forums are less about what they say than how they say it.

That said, there were some excellent performances at Wednesday night’s event, some poor ones, and some downright bizarre ones.