Jack Goes Boating
Bay Area Premiere
by Bob Glaudini
directed by Joy Carlin
June 12, 2009 - July 19, 2009
This show is SOLD-OUT.
show length: 2 hours with intermission
Meet lovable slacker Jack, who enlists the aid of his two best friends, a married couple, to win the girl of his dreams. The plan? Concoct the perfect gourmet meal to impress her and take her out for a boat ride in Central Park. Never mind that it’s the middle of winter, Jack can’t swim and has never cooked a meal in his life. As obstacles grow, the inner workings of two delicate love affairs are wonderfully illuminated by laughter in Glaudini’s portrait of four everyday eccentrics.
Fresh from Off-Broadway where audiences and critics fell in love with its unassuming characters, Jack Goes Boating is a refreshingly modern take on the old-fashioned romantic comedy. Bay Area theatre veteran Joy Carlin (Hysteria, The Price) directs this unique play.
“An endearing romantic comedy …witty and knowing and all heart.” - Variety
"Sweet and snarky is a tough combination to pull off, but it adds up to what could be the feel-good romantic comedy of this and a future summer." - San Francisco Chronicle
"A terrific play and Joy Carlin directs it beautifully, with an energetic pace and a chance to let her actors shine." - Contra Costa Times
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Related Events
Friday Forum: True Human Relationships
Post-show June 26, 2009
Jack Goes Boating creates a place where honest, good, hard-working people are celebrated. What do we learn about ourselves and our society when we watch these truthful and human relationships dock in front of us for 2 hours? A twenty-minute post-show forum facilitated by Michael Mansfield, Education Director.
Script Club: Waiting for Godot
FREE! July 6, 2009 7pm
What do we do while we wait/live? What’s worth waiting/living for? Samuel Beckett in 1948 wrote Waiting for Godot in beautiful French, but an Irishman’s second language. Bob Glaudini wrote Jack Goes Boating in 2007 in pure unadulterated American. The two plays invite us to look at the ordinary and celebrate it in all its mystery and madness. Join us for a one-hour interactive evening putting these two plays in dialogue with one another and ourselves, facilitated by Michael Mansfield, Education Director.
Late-night Conversation: Drugs on Stage
Post-show July 10, 2009
Mixing drugs with the theatrical world of illusion is a marriage made in heaven-hell. What kind of dramatic world do we enter when it is mediated by illegal substances? A twenty-minute audience-driven conversation, facilitated by Michael Mansfield, Education Director, around theatre’s use of drugs on stage to create midsummer nightsdreams and nightmares.
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