[NEohioPAL] Christopher Durang's Baby with the Bathwater

[Doug Tennant]

* Gilda Shedstecker Presents! Two final performances of a wickedly funny
baby*

Canton OH - There are good parents and there are bad parents, and then
there are John and Helen Dingleberry. Too polite to peek to see if their
new baby is a boy or girl, they have no sense of appropriate care for a
child. Thank goodness for the help of Nanny, who descends to offer guidance
and salad Niçoise. Baby’s childhood is fraught with kidnap attempts, boys
with sticks, and encounters with buses as neighbors and teachers debate
about whether help is necessary.

Gilda Shedstecker Presents! *Baby with the Bathwater* by Christopher Durang,
a wacky comedy about surviving those parents who love very badly.
Ridiculously funny, the play is reminiscent of Saturday Night Live in its
prime, and satirizes parenting and society’s role in acknowledging a child
in need. Director Doug Tennant, who was a foster parent for over 10 years,
recognizes in the characters of John and Helen those parents who fail to
make positive choices to learn good skills, and in the character of Nanny,
both the good and bad aspects encountered in the child welfare system. The
message is biting, but side-splitting as well! And the play is affirming:
although it’s better to raise a healthy child than to fix a broken adult,
any baby can grow up to shed his skirt and be happy, in spite of those who
meant well.

Audiences are in stitches over Jacki Dietz as Helen, Dan Fritz as John, and
Tammy Zinkhon Hyde as Nanny, and Lauren Syverson as Cynthia, with
hysterical appearances by Linda Alexander-Radak, Patrice Rittenhouse, Ellen
Fox, Bridget Bazzinotti, Robin Wilson and David Bowen. And Roman Feemster
as the Baby.

Remaining performances are August 23 and 24 at the Kathleen Howland
Theater, 324 Cleveland Ave NW, Canton. Shows are 8:00 pm and recommended
for mature audiences. Tickets are $10.00 each and can be purchased at 2nd
April Galerie, by calling 330-451-0924 or online at secondapril.org. Visit
gildashedstecker.com for more information.
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