Think Bart Simson meets Betty Crocker on LSD, with a confident cast and decisive playwright/director who steer a comedy of infantile, broken characters through ambiguous plots and overlapping time to crisis and a touching resolution.
House of Several Stories, John Boulanger's MFA project at Texas State, had a reading at the university and played for just a flicker of time in early October, 2008 at the Blue Theatre in Austin. In April it won the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre competition for best student-written play. Boulanger's back in town under the aegis of a new sponsor, Imagine That Productions, and they have done up his script in style.
Members of this cast crackle with charisma. They play in a haunting 1950s- style interior in serene whites and greens designed by Griffon Ramsey. Sue, the mom, is a destroyed prom dreamboat who wears costumes in pink and in spangled green designed by Jillan Hanel. You might consider settling in your seat as soon as the house opens to enjoy 15-20 minutes of bright time-warp vocal pop put together by Craig Brock.
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