VANCOUVER, BC: Full Figure Theatre is pleased to present a remount of their popular new show, 39 and ticking… The Musical!
A love story about a woman and her issues around dating, aging, raising kids and procreating, 39 runs August 3-8 at the Jericho Arts Centre.
39 and ticking… is about Rose, whose biological alarm clock has gone off—and it’s loud! But that’s okay—she’s got it figured out. She just met a guy named Dan. She’ll get pregnant the old-fashioned way, break up with him and have the baby. But of course Dan turns out to be a great divorced guy, who wants to marry her. But he doesn’t want any more kids. So Rose is forced to decide between the man she’s falling in love with and the baby she wants. The arguments go around and around in her head as she awaits the results of a pregnancy test....
Heart-breakingly honest and side-splittingly funny, this Last Chance At Fertility fable is Sharon's most sophisticated work to date, melding divergent theatrical disciplines (Clowning, Music, Movement, Story telling, Greek Choral Comedy, Modern Memory Play) into a cohesive, irreverently sensitive, endlessly surprising whole. -- Richard Newman, actor, director, musician
Lisa Beley is totally convincing as the “wannabe” mother. Joan MacLean, Cheryl Mullen and Lisa Bunting cover all the bases as the myriad of Rose’s quixotic voices. Mullen justifies some canny casting as Rose’s zany boyfriend. MacLean, who also collaborates with Ted Hamilton in scoring the original music, grounds the show with a solid performance as the redoubtable Mom. I personally enjoyed Bunting’s delightfully uninhibited burlesque in the show’s most engaging songs like Confession (Boy, we’ve had a lot of sex). -- John Jane, Review Vancouver
Despite all the mechanical and enlightened advancements of the 21st century, love and sex and reproduction are still heartbreaking concerns and the juxtaposition used in this play of clever lyrics, stylized fantasies and buffoon cruelty emphasize the moral and rational ambiguities of our age. -- Marilyn Norry, actor, dramaturg, writer, producer
Full Figure Theatre is a small company that supports original works and public discourse.
39 and ticking…The Musical! opens Wednesday, August 4, at 8:00 pm, and runs nightly through until the 8th. There will be one 2-for-1 preview on Tuesday, August 3 at 8 pm and one matinee at 2 pm on Saturday, Aug 7. All performances take place at The Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery St. Tickets are $20/25, and are available by calling 604-224-8007, or going to www.jerichoartscentre.com .