LOVE AND WOOD OPENS TODAY AT MOBTOWN THEATRE!
This is one show you will be dying to mention: Baltimore's Unmentionable Theatre presents Love and Wood, a new play premiere by Erica Lauren McLaughlin! The play is being directed by Brigitte Pribnow, and features David Baston, James Grant, and Kelly Sinnott.
"It's like love, and... wood."
"I don't even want to know what those two have to do with each other."
Love and Wood is not a play about carpentry or about the sexual fantasies of construction workers! It is about the duality of the human being, about the innumerable contradictory thoughts, desires, and needs that we cling to in our vain determination to define a solid sense of self. Patrick, an introverted, methodical writer, yearns be a knight in shining armor for his flighty, fragile neighbor Morgan, who burdens him daily with all the melodramatic details of her emotionally unfulfilling, but sexually satisfying relationship with simple, single-minded Antonio.
Patrick and Morgan have an almost perfect relationship. They seem to connect flawlessly in every way but one: sexually. However, what Patrick lacks in the libido department, Antonio is more than willing to provide, leaving Morgan helplessly torn between the two men.
The characters self-absorbed journeys lead them to stumble over all sorts of weighty, life-important questions- What and why is love? What is the relationship between creation and survival? How do we resolve the enigmatic struggle between our primal instinct to mate and our uniquely human need to connect with another being on a deep, spiritual level? As the characters' quest for definition and control becomes increasingly more desperate, the precarious balance between order and chaos, creation and destruction, is torn asunder, and the line between what (and who!) is real becomes impossibly blurred.
Love and Wood takes its notes from a complicated jazz melody: The play's unconventional form is just as unpredictable as the characters, and along with its overlapping dialogue and interwoven scenes, Love and Wood presents an exciting new twist to the girl meets boy scenario. See it for yourself and decide which is better: Procreation or Conversation? Making friends or making babies? Everlasting love, or long lasting sex? Love and Wood leaves nothing off boundaries in this fresh, modern original work by Erica Lauren McLaughlin.
All performances take place at:
Mobtown Theater at Meadow Mill
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 114
Baltimore, MD 21211
For directions, please visit http://www.mobtownplayers.com
Thursday, December 29th @ 8:00 p.m.
Friday, December 30th @ 8:00 p.m.
Friday, January 6th @ 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 7th @ 4:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 8th @ 2:00 p.m.
Tickets:
General Admission: $12
Student Tickets: $10
To make a reservation, please email unmentionabletheatre@gmail.com or call 240-593-0778. Include in the email your name, the # of tickets requested, and any special needs you may have.
AND.....
We made the front page of the City Paper!!!
http://www.citypaper.com/cover.asp?issuedate=12/28/2005
http://www.citypaper.com/calendar/event.asp?whatID=67225