Edge makes the point. Budding, blooming and fading, love, sweet love — that wonderful, frustrating maelstrom of conflicting emotions that keeps us all on our toes — is a wild, wild flower.
Don’t bother with logic in this hilarious trio of romantic comedies, each by a different playwright coming from a different point of view. Together, they take turns spotlighting the mating game when it is forming, formed and ending; and no surprise, dating or married, you play, you pay, and pay, and pay, and keep coming back for more.
Ask why, Edge makes you laugh. Ask how, Edge makes you laugh. This is one action-packed evening of funny, funny stuff.
Think you’re the only one with a voice in your head? The love of your life’s got one, too.
Norm Foster’s “My Narrator” makes the most of that fact in his back and forth between a struggling artist (Stephanie Holser), her job-hopping nobody of a boyfriend (Steve Heiret) and their alter egos (Stephanie McBain, Michael G. McFadden).
Guys, maybe the she in your life doesn’t have needs like yours. Thought ever occur to you?
“Johnny &Wilma” by TV and film notables, Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna, picks up a frisky-feeling mom (McBain) and her dead-tired hubby (Heiret), in bed when the kids are sound asleep.
Ladies, praying for true love to run a smooth course during the golden years?
Robert Herbert’s “I’m Herbert’s” puts a talkative, more-than-once-married couple in their 70s (McFadden, Holser) in rocking chairs side by side.
This is a fast-paced cast in whimsical sync with warmhearted comedy and topped off by Mcfadden’s confused dirty old man and Holser’s spindly, grayheaded, grouse of a cantankerous, old spouse. They bicker like badgers.
You’re probably not far off if you think you know what’s up with these ditties. Even so, directors Kevin Miller (“Narrator”) and Michael Kelley (“Johnny” and “Herbert”) have cooked up some pretty sophisticated surprises. They caught me flatfooted more than once.
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