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Performance dates: April 10, 11, 12, 13 2003 Performance venue: Linesight Theatre
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BOYS'
LIFE/
Nominated for the
1988 Pulitzer Prize, “Boys' Life” traces the misadventures of
three former college buddies now seeking to make their way in the big
city- and with various women of their acquaintance. There is the cynical
Jack (Tim Hallacy), who is already married and a father, but is not above
pursuing daytime adulteries while baby-sitting in the park; the innocent,
vulnerable Phil (Nathan Boren), who grows weary of not being taken seriously
and concludes that being unhappy is the way things are supposed to be;
and the handsome, amoral Don (Nate Cadman), who risks a solid relationship
with his girlfriend Lisa (Amy Hughey) by sleeping with another (Krystal
Iseminger), simply to see if he "could get away with it". Moving
along briskly, with its mood of satirical humor brilliantly sustained,
the play dissects and anatomizes male narcissism- and protracted adolescence-
which characterizes its protagonists and, in the end, makes it hilariously
clear that it is actually the women who possess the qualities of "manhood"
and maturity which their deluded lovers so desperately lay claim to. Amber
Malott, Meridith Jones, Stephen Mizak, and Amy Grimm co-star.
“Sexual Perversity
in Chicago” is a brilliant, in-your-face series of vignettes sloshing
through the muck of modern relationships. The play concerns two young
men, Danny (Jason Bailey) and Bernie (Jason Miller), and two young women,
Deborah (Stacy Champagne) and Joan (Amy Grimm), trying to sort out their
sex lives amid filing cabinets and the nervous regimentation of the singles
bar scene. In a series of blackout scenes, we see them falling in and
out of love in a comedy of the failure to learn. There's hope that something
sweet might come of their backwards stab at a relationship, although Bernie
and Joan lurk behind, threatening to inject their own individual brands
of poison into the mix.
See production stills from Boys' Life and Sexual Perversity In Chicago.
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"Boys’
Life" by Howard Korder was first presented by Lincoln Center Theater
at the Mitzi E. Newhouse theater in New York City in February 1998. The
play "puts sexual insecurity among under-30 males under the microscope,
and the result is a satisfying and thoughtful work by a fresh playwriting
voice," said Variety.
“Sexual
Perversity In Chicago” by David Mamet was first produced by The Organic
Theatre Company in Chicago in the summer of 1974. From there, it moved
to an off-off Broadway production in December of 1975, and then went to
the off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre (with a cast that included F. Murray
Abraham and Peter Reigert) in June of 1976. It was later adapted (loosely)
into the 1986 film “…About Last Night”.
Theatre
On Consignment’s double-bill of “Boys Life” and “Sexual
Perversity In Chicago” ran April 10, 11, and 12 at 8pm and April
13 at 2pm in the Linesight Theatre. Bob Thomas was stage manager, Chad
Nulph was sound board operator, and Earnest Roberson and Meridith Jones
were on backstage crew.