It’s Black Box Theater Wednesday again, and Better Living, overwhelmingly deserves honorable mention as a comedic magnum opus, previewing Saturday last at the Gloria Maddox Theater in Chelsea.

Written by Canadian George F. Walker and directed by Tony Glazer, we take a two hour romp into the delusional world of Nora, a manically discombobulated mother of three.

With daughters to raise alone, save for her, shallow, flask nipping, unenthusiastic, but always sarcastic minister brother and his cynical view of life, Nora has her wayward husband mentally dead and buried in the most heinous manner as a way of coping, while building an extra room onto the house beneath the basement floor. And that’s the sane part.

Compelled to find creative ways to make due and survive after ex-cop dad takes a ten year hike, eldest daughter Mary Ann indulges in foreskin to earn enough for her sheepskin, middle daughter Elizabeth develops into a knee knocking nervous Nelly afraid to think an unassisted thought, with the youngest, Gail, fast, furious, and far too young to think that dad was anything but perfect.

Only after we are lead to believe daddy dearest is the lowest of the low, he suddenly appears out of the clear blue to reclaim his place on the family thrown. And that’s when the fun begins.

We find, dear old dad might have had a good reason for easing’ on down the road, as it’s revealed, the family had made three attempts to hasten dad’s departure from their lives via a local hit man, car break tampering and beaten and left in the woods to expire from exposure.

Oh yeah baby, this is a must see!

Here is what you need to know:
The Opening
June 1, 2006
The Closing
June 25, 2006
The Shows
Thu – Sat at 8pm; Sat – Sun at 3pm
The TIX
$15212-352-3101
The Specials
Seniors: $10Students: $10

The Excellent, Cast
Page Clements, Jim Cyborowski, Emily Sproch, Jennifer McGuire, Summer Crockett Moore, Luis A. de Amechazurra, Jonathan Zungre
The AUTHOR
George F. Walker
The DIRECTOR
Tony Glazer
The End

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It’s Black Box Theater Wednesday again, and all eyes should be focused on the weird, the strange, the vulnerable, the lovable, the pitiful, the painful yet riveting and engaging Trout Stanley opening at the 45 Below Theater this week.

Written by Canadian, Claudia Dey and directed by Jen Wineman, this twisted tale of a selfish love, driven by a sister’s lifelong envy is about a set of twins, Sugar and Grace Ducharme living in the same house but existing in different worlds.

Grace, portraying the overly outgoing, overly confident, overly vivacious, and flirtatious on the surface, flawless persona, hides a selfish secrete from which she derives her strength.

Sugar, the flipside of the duo, that should have been a trio but for one of many sad twists of fate in their lives, is the cheerless, somber, depressed agoraphobic driven to the suicide option, when she can see no future as the sideshow to her sister’s apparent flamboyant life in the outside world.

Ready to do the hari-kari in her private necktie party, the foot sniffing, alcoholic, on the run, but never lying, Trout Stanley arrives by accident in the Northern British Columbia setting, while making his way north to find the lake his parents drowned in.

Meeting Sugar at her most vulnerable, the two misfits find common ground and Sugar’s life seems to take a U-turn; but only for the moment, as there are murders to be solved, scabs of ugly secretes to be revealed happiness found and roles reversed before this one reaches it’s chaotic and well delivered conclusion.

Special mention should be given to Erika Rolfsrud as to most scary portrayal of the insanely depressed I have every witnessed. Don’t miss this one.
Slight Warning: The Dialog can be a bit choppy at times, but it’s worth the tix price anyway

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Here is what you need to know:

The Cast:
Erika Rolfsrud, Kelly McAndrew, And Warren Sulatycky
The Place
45 Below Bleeker St.
Opened
May 22, 2006
Closing
June 11, 2006
Shows
Thu – Sun at 8pm
Runs
2 hours, 20 minutes
Tix Price
$18Call 212-868-4444 for Online purchase

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