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'Tales From The Women's Locker Room' at The Ojai Valley Grange
By Anonymous — Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
 Nancy Jane Marie regales us with her tales of adventure in seedy London town. Photo courtesy of Dean Zatkowsky. "No,” says I, “it's got to be LIVE. They've got to see it's not a trick of the light. They've got to know it's REAL!" Following the success of Antigone, Senga Classical Stage Company returns with 3 wildly different NEW ... Tales from the Women’s Locker Room. Playwright Gowan Calder’s An Audience with the Lizard Lady, is a clever, piercingly funny piece about a woman with an extraordinary talent to adapt and survive her traumatic childhood. Set in Scotland and steeped in droll, no-nonsense native wit, we are invited into the extraordinary world of the freak-show circus to witness the human capacity to endure and thrive. Nancy Jane Marie (who played Lenore, the bitch ballet diva with cancer in Senga's The Swan Queen - 2009 Tales) plays Morag Kerr, the Lizard Lady, with a long tale! Mary Steelsmith’s one act play, Fertility, is set in California. Meet Fran (Vivien Latham), a highly-strung successful businesswoman all too used to getting her own way, and Jemma (Maranda Mobley), her hapless, over-worked assistant. The two women examine an unusual sculpture of a woman rumored to have special powers which affect anyone who touches it. The sculpture’s beauty and power affect both women deeply and both are made to see themselves and each other in a whole different light. The jargon of the boardroom comes up hilariously against the exasperating realities of motherhood in this sharp comedy of contemporary womanhood. Canadian playwright, Shirley Barrie, completes the trilogy of plays with Duck Blind, about the assumptions and expectations we have of other people: Jenny (played by Chehala Klingberg), a 14-year-old marooned on a duck blind is adrift on the foggy water. She has been separated from her parents in an accident. She converses with a duck, the only other living thing around. As the realization dawns that her parents might not actually find her, we see her teenage hubris peel away to reveal the little girl inside, as she comes to realize exactly what her parents mean to her. Opens Friday, July 8 through July 31. |
