Sunday, January 29, 2006
Mad Cow Takes You on "Bad Dates"
Orlando's Mad Cow Theater Company announces the Central Florida premiere of BAD DATES by playwright Theresa Rebeck - a hilarious, fresh and touching comedy about a woman who wants it all: motherhood, a potent career and a dynamic love life.
BAD DATES details one woman's odyssey to survive her shoe shopping addiction and her man problems. Haley is a single mother with a collection of 500 pairs of shoes, a teenage daughter, a stress-to-make-you-scream job and a crew from the mob as her bosses. What's she missing? - a love life would be nice. So Haley chooses a pair of shoes twice a week and jumps back into the dating pool. Her retelling of her adventures in middle-aged date-land is a laugh-out-loud funny saga taking us from a Buddhist retreat to the Romanian mob and all through Manhattan. With a nod to Sex and the City and Bridget Jones' Diary, this Sweet Charity-like heroine is as endearing as she is hilarious. John Simon of New York Magazine said "You will not want to miss this charming play".
An award-winning playwright, Theresa Rebeck has also written for some of television's most well-known series including, Law and Order, Third Watch and NYPD Blue along with the films Harriet the Spy and Catwoman. Other work for the theatre includes Omnium Gatherum, co-written with Alexandra Gersten-Vassilarous, which recently enjoyed an acclaimed Off-Broadway run, Spike Heels, an adaptation of Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros, and The Actress.
BAD DATES will be the 52nd production by the award-winning Mad Cow Theatre, which has never repeated a playwright in its eight-year history. Directed by Dave Russell, the production features Robyn Pedretti as the incurably romantic, shoe-loving Haley. The creative team includes costumes by Nicole Bartet, set design by Jason Young and lighting by Ryan Gravilla.
BAD DATES runs February 2 - 26, 2006 at Mad Cow Theatre, 105 South Magnolia Avenue in downtown Orlando. Tickets can be purchased through the Mad Cow Box Office at 407.297.8788 or online at www.madcowtheatre.com.
BAD DATES details one woman's odyssey to survive her shoe shopping addiction and her man problems. Haley is a single mother with a collection of 500 pairs of shoes, a teenage daughter, a stress-to-make-you-scream job and a crew from the mob as her bosses. What's she missing? - a love life would be nice. So Haley chooses a pair of shoes twice a week and jumps back into the dating pool. Her retelling of her adventures in middle-aged date-land is a laugh-out-loud funny saga taking us from a Buddhist retreat to the Romanian mob and all through Manhattan. With a nod to Sex and the City and Bridget Jones' Diary, this Sweet Charity-like heroine is as endearing as she is hilarious. John Simon of New York Magazine said "You will not want to miss this charming play".
An award-winning playwright, Theresa Rebeck has also written for some of television's most well-known series including, Law and Order, Third Watch and NYPD Blue along with the films Harriet the Spy and Catwoman. Other work for the theatre includes Omnium Gatherum, co-written with Alexandra Gersten-Vassilarous, which recently enjoyed an acclaimed Off-Broadway run, Spike Heels, an adaptation of Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros, and The Actress.
BAD DATES will be the 52nd production by the award-winning Mad Cow Theatre, which has never repeated a playwright in its eight-year history. Directed by Dave Russell, the production features Robyn Pedretti as the incurably romantic, shoe-loving Haley. The creative team includes costumes by Nicole Bartet, set design by Jason Young and lighting by Ryan Gravilla.
BAD DATES runs February 2 - 26, 2006 at Mad Cow Theatre, 105 South Magnolia Avenue in downtown Orlando. Tickets can be purchased through the Mad Cow Box Office at 407.297.8788 or online at www.madcowtheatre.com.
