“The Silence of the Clams” opens at the Rose Room

Camp with a nice chianti

Clams is exactly what it sounds like: A send-up of the Jodie Foster film, it about Clarice Startling, a tough female FBI agent (played in this production — as in all of them — by a man, Austin Tindle) who sets out to catch the killer Beaver Bob with the help of evil genius Hannibal Lichter — pronounced “Licked Her.” (Yeah, it’s that kind of show.)

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DEETS: The Rose Room inside Station 4, 3911 Cedar Springs Road. Through May 20. $20–$25. UptownPlayers.org