Jamaica Plain’s own community theater, The Footlight Club, presents the first of its 7A Black Box program, “Swimming in the Shallows” in mid-October. Written by Adam Bock, the play is a dreamscape of a comedy about romantic commitment, and the effect love and desire have upon all of us, regardless of situation. The play opens Friday October 17 at 8pm, in the Parker Room of Eliot Hall at, 7A Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, the longtime home of America’s longest continuously operating community theater. Tickets are $20 to the public, free to members.
In “Swimming in the Shallows”, Barb finds out that Buddhist monks in Thailand only own eight things – and wonders if that is all she wants. She starts giving away her things but her husband Bob keeps buying her new ones. Donna wants Carla Carla to marry her, but Carla Carla doesn’t like that Donna smokes. Nick meets a shark at the aquarium – they go on a date to the beach and Nick tries not to sleep with the shark too fast. Plus dream sequences. Plus a wedding…
Directed by Jamie Alley and produced by Meredith Weaver, “Swimming in the Shallows” features a stellar ensemble cast including Jenn Bean, Ivy Ho, Cathy Hersh, Jon Myers, Michael Casey, and Bradley Belanger as The Shark.
The 7A Black Box program of The Footlight Club provides members the opportunity to present smaller or more experimental shows, new work, staged readings, cabarets, stand-up comedy, and other reimaginings of theatrical productions. By doing so, its goals are to expand the club’s theatrical offerings via an additional space (the Parker Room), to create more opportunities for BIPOC creatives to mount productions, and to provide more adventurous, challenging or intimate theater experiences to existing and new audiences.
For more information about the 7A Black Box program, the Footlight Club, or “Swimming in the Sharks”, please go to the club’s website, www.footlight.org where you can also purchase tickets.