Synopsis
Four flawed yet likeable middle-class New Yorkers interact in this off-beat romantic comedy about staying afloat in the deep water of day-to-day living. Laced with cooking classes, swimming lessons and a smorgasbord of illegal drugs, Jack Goes Boating is a story of date panic, marital meltdown, betrayal, and the prevailing grace of the human spirit.
Info
Shake off that winter chill with dreams of warm, lazy summer days drifting on a glassy lake. Jack Goes Boating explores the lives of Clyde, Jack, Lucy, and Connie as they negotiate life’s potholes in search of love. Jack will take us all boating – if first we learn how to swim.
Lessons begin January 12 through February 11, 2012. The pool opens at 8:00PM. This performance contains onstage smoking.
JACK GOES BOATING received an enthusiastic reception at New York’s Public Theatre and was recently released as a motion picture.
REVIEWS
Creative Loafing: “Jack cooks; wine, bourbon, reefer, hash, and lines of coke are consumed; and — best of all — everyone misbehaves.”
Arts A La Mode: “By the time it’s over you realize how much you like it. Jack (Brian Willard) is a shlumpy, neurotic with unfortunate dreadlocks prone to breathing issues when his anxiety level rises. He listens to Rastafarian music on a cheap tape player playing “Rivers of Babylon” whenever he gets too upset.”
Charlotte Observer: “Director Michael Simmons, aided by Samuel Peter Silva’s nifty sound design, lets none of these vignettes droop: The funniest moments really pop, and the one long scene around a hookah moves forward with a kind of stoned vigor.”
