Baby with the Bathwater at Alumni Theatre

The line between sanity and madness is vague, between belief and reality imprecise, between "I am” and “I want” utterly invisible! If life gives you a lemon, how far are you from pretending it's an orange? Who"s to say you can’t just fake it? And if you could force your desires into reality how long would it keep, and how would you keep others from derailing your crazy train? Don’t know, well it’s time to head to the theatre for a new gambit of tricks and lies.

Famed playwright Christopher Durang’s Baby with the Bathwater will be playing at the Alumni Theatre, at Carleton University, January 26^th through 29^th, 2005. Presented by the Sock 'n’ Buskin Theatre Company, this hilarious satire on the state of parenthood gone a rye should not be missed.

Helen and John Dingleberry are by no means the definition of model parents. Lacking the ability to cope with themselves, each other, or their newborn child, they tumble into a world of failed expectations and broken ideals. Unable to determine the sex of their child, the Dingleberrys choose not only a name for ‘Baby’ but a gender too. Pretty little Daisy Dingleberry is introduced to the audience. That vague line between belief and reality sets in when Daisy discovers she’s actually a boy.

Spending the first eleven years of his life as a girl leaves Daisy lost and confused. With no one to support him and nothing to guide him, Daisy must struggle to define his life and the direction it will take.

In an age of gender selection and “test tube babies”, Baby with the Bathwater is a social commentary on the best and worst of society’s wilful blindness toward any disturbing truth.

To obtain further information please contact Darran Fernandez at (613) 520-3770

Baby with the Bathwater is being produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

The Sock ‘n’ Buskin Theatre Company is the oldest student-run theatre company in North America and prides itself on being completely volunteer operated by students from both Ottawa and Carleton University and the Ottawa theatre community.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Darran Fernandez
Sock ‘n’ Buskin Theatre Company
401 University Centre,
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6
(613) 520-3770
www.carleton.ca/socknbuskin/babywiththebathwater.htm

Baby with the Bathwater- Sock ’n’ Buskin Theatre Co.
Dates:              January 26-29, 2005
Curtain:           8:00 PM
Location:        Alumni Theatre in Southam Hall, Carleton University Campus
Tickets:           $10 adults, $6 students, and special rates for groups of 10 or more
Reservations: (613) 520-3770
*Box Office opens an hour before the performance begins

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