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Baltimore's own Unmentionable Theatre joins over 100 artists in participating in
the first annual Capital Fringe Festival.
Love and Wood
a new play by Erica Lauren McLaughlin
Directed by Brigitte Pribnow
Featuring Dave Baston, James Macon Grant and Kelly Sinnott
Presented as a part of the inaugural Capital Fringe Festival.
July 20 – 30, 2006.
For more information visit www.capfringe.org
Tuesday, July 25; 6:00pm
Wednesday, July 26; 8:00pm
Thursday, July 27; 6:00pm
Saturday, July 29; 8:00pm
Sunday, July 30th; 5:00pm
Goethe Institute (Map)
812 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Love and Wood
Press Release
worth mentioning: Baltimore’s Unmentionable Theatre makes something from nothing
in Capital Fringe Fest
Baltimore, MD- July 11, 2006
Love and Wood
Postcards
View the Love and Wood postcard design!
(Credits: Vanessa Strickland- front artwork, Erica McLaughlin- back artwork)
Ticket
Information - Buy tickets for Love and Wood
@ Theatre Mania.Com
Venue Information - Get directions to the Goethe Institute
Unmentionable Theatre Company
- Official site of the Unmentionable Theatre
Capital Fringe Festival -
Official site of the Capital Fringe Festival
LOVE AND WOOD
a new play by Erica Lauren McLaughlin
“It’s like love, and... wood.”
“I don’t even want to know what those two have to do with each other.”
Love and Wood is not a play about carpentry or about the sexual
fantasies of construction workers! It is about the duality of the human being,
about the innumerable contradictory thoughts, desires, and needs that we cling
to in our vain determination to define a solid sense of self. Patrick, an
introverted, methodical writer, yearns be a knight in shining armor for his
flighty, fragile neighbor Morgan, who burdens him daily with all the
melodramatic details of her emotionally unfulfilling, but sexually satisfying
relationship with simple, single-minded Antonio.
Patrick and Morgan have an almost perfect relationship. They seem to connect
flawlessly in every way but one: sexually. However, what Patrick lacks in
the libido department, Antonio is more than willing to provide, leaving Morgan
helplessly torn between the two men.
Patrick, Morgan and Antonio are caught in an impossible love triangle: Morgan
loves Patrick, but he will not have sex with her. Morgan has sex with Antonio,
but she will not love him. Patrick needs Morgan, but not in the way she
desires. Each character yearns to feel whole, to make some sense of their
personal ambiguity, and each one expects to achieve this elusive sense of
completeness through their connection with another person.
They are not interested in who that other person they connect with truly is, but
rather who that person could and should be to them. Their self-absorbed journeys
lead them to stumble over all sorts of weighty, life-important questions- What
and why is love? What is the relationship between creation and survival? How do
we resolve the enigmatic struggle between our primal instinct to mate and our
uniquely human need to connect with another being on a deep, spiritual level? As
the characters' quest for definition and control becomes increasingly more
desperate, the precarious balance between order and chaos, creation and
destruction, is torn asunder, and the line between what (and who!) is real
becomes impossibly blurred.
Love and Wood takes its notes from a complicated jazz melody. The play’s
unconventional form is just as unpredictable as the characters, and along with
its overlapping dialogue and interwoven scenes, Love and Wood presents an
exciting new twist to the girl meets boy scenario.
See it for yourself and decide which is better: Procreation
or Conversation? Making friends or making babies? Everlasting love, or long
lasting sex? Love and Wood leaves nothing off boundaries in this fresh,
modern original work by Erica Lauren McLaughlin.
Click here to read the script:
Love and Wood
Online!
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