Classic antics of 'Laugh' an uphill climb in Beth Henley's latest

Forget pratfalls and pies in the face, though Beth Henley's oddball new "Laugh" certainly goes in for both. The bizarro sights in the premiere production at Studio Theatre include a corpulent man who keeps his tush welded to his fraying overstuffed chair even when he waddles around, and a mud-eating scene involving our butterfly-chasing hero and two crude bumpkins who have enslaved him.