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The Colonial presents Mother Load03:43PM / Friday, March 20, 2009
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – The critically acclaimed off-Broadway production of Amy Wilson’s one-woman show Mother Load comes to the Colonial on April 14th at 7:30PM. Tickets for the performance are $30-$20 and can be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street Monday-Friday 10AM-5PM, performance Saturdays 10AM-2PM, by calling (413) 997-4444 or online at www.TheColonialTheatre.org.
"Like Annie Hall wearing a nursing bra!" –The New York Times
"A level of hilarity that even non-moms will appreciate!" –Time Out NY Kids
Written and Performed by AMY WILSON
Directed by JULIE KRAMER
Written and performed by Amy Wilson and directed by Julie Kramer, Mother Load is a hilarious mix of motherhood, comedy, and true confession. Based on Wilson’s own experience as the mother of three children under five, this one-woman show has audiences lining up from coast to coast for a night of laughs about everything from prenatal yoga to preschool applications. From organic baby food to self-important childbirth instructors to the perils of nursing, this laugh-out-loud show is an expose of the fruitless and ever-challenging quest to be the “perfect” mom.
Anyone who has fed their kids dinosaur chicken nuggets three times this week will identify with the guilt this mom feels, and cheer as she frees herself from it. You’ll love Mother Load whether you are a mom—or just have one.
BIOGRAPHIES
AMY WILSON (Writer/Performer) writes the "Girl Talk" column each month for Babytalk magazine, where she serves as a Contributing Editor. Amy has appeared on television as a series regular on the sitcoms Norm (ABC) with Norm MacDonald and Daddio (NBC) with Michael Chiklis, and had a recurring role on Felicity. She has also appeared on Ed, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Deadline, Boston Common, and All My Children. Her film credits include Kinsey, Kissing Jessica Stein, Keeping the Faith, and Ira and Abby. Amy appeared on Broadway as “Sunny Freitag” in the Tony Award-winning play The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Other NYC theater credits include Hobson's Choice, Hamlet, Young Goodman Brown, Manhattan Casanova with Mercedes Ruehl, and Memory Play with Eli Wallach. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University.
Amy is also the author of three other one-woman shows. A Cookie Full of Arsenic: My Life as a Femme Fatale was chosen for the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival. She also worked as a sketch comedy writer and performer with LIVE ON TAPE. That group developed a sketch comedy show for NBC, and shot six episodes in Saturday Night Live’s studios. But her favorite productions are her three young children, whom she raises with her husband, David Flannery, in New York City.
JULIE KRAMER recently directed the new plays BabyLove and None of the Above Off-Broadway. Last December, Julie was the recipient of a Special Project Grant to direct a workshop production of Hillary, about Hillary Clinton, at The Public Theater. She has directed new plays and musicals at New Georges, 45 Bleecker, HERE Contemporary Arts Center, Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and the New York Fringe Festival in New York; The O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut; the Uno Festival in Victoria, Canada; the Mesto Zensk Festival of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia; and three shows for the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen (including Amy Wilson's A Cookie Full of Arsenic). She also directed a showcase for ABC/TV and several productions at NYU/Strasberg. Julie was a Young Director in Residence at Ensemble Studio |
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