Birth and After Birth
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 3, 2006
Closed Oct 29, 2006
Opened Oct 3, 2006
Closed Oct 29, 2006
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Combining biting social comedy with a wild streak of the absurd, Tina Howe's (Painting Churches, Pride's Crossing, Coastal Disturbances) Birth and After Birth draws a fractured portrait of a contemporary family trying to hold it all together. Bill and Sandy Apple absolutely insist on upholding a perfect image of blissful family life with their rambunctious four-year-old, Nicky. Things soon go haywire, however, when Nicky's antic personality goes out of control on his birthday and the Apples' best friends, the childless Freeds, call into question the Apple's deeply held assumptions about child-rearing and fertility.
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"What the hell was that?" I overheard someone ask following Tina Howe's Birth and After Birth. It's a good question, one that I think many people were pondering as they exited the Atlantic Theatre Company production. While Howe's absurdist take on parenting contains some funny moments, it ultimately proves to be both puzzling and tiresome.
The play, which Howe first wrote in 1972, begins on the morning of Nicky's fourth birthday. Nicky is a big baby -- especially as played by adult actor Jordan Gelber. He's wantonly destructive, disobedient to his parents, Bill (Jeff Binder) and Sandy (Maggie Kiley), and has a short attention span. Mom and dad aren't exactly model parents; they alternately[...]