| NOW CLOSED | Charlotte Jones's Humble Boy |
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  PREVIEWS APRIL 9-12
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AWARDS & NOMINATIONS Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Awards "Humble Boy... buzzes with a peculiarly British intoxication with words and ideas... it gives us an eccentric but appealing cast of characters, a satisfying depth of relationships, and a winning ability to use words in the service of complex emotions. That's pretty sweet..." Boston Globe "There's a lot of wordplay and Stoppard-style banter, complete with heady metaphors about beehives and black holes... Diego Arciniegas and his cast err on the side of intelligence, complete with some of the most believable UK accents ever heard on a Boston stage..." Boston Herald "Diego Arciniegas neatly negotiates every twist and turn of this strange comi-tragedy (or tragicomedy). And has an ensemble that can keep pace with the playwright.." Hub Review "There's nothing "humble" about Charlotte Jones' smart comedy... It starts out like a well-heeled British farce, detours briefly into vaudeville, then emerges as a sweet, redemptive celebration of life..." Theater Mirror The Publick returns to the eclectic worlds of English gardens, strained family relations, and quantum physics with the New England premiere of this award-winning comedy by Charlotte Jones. Felix Humble, theoretical physicist, has left Cambridge and his search for a unified "Theory of Everything" to attend his beekeeper father's funeral- and finds himself in a hornet's nest instead. His overbearing mother Flora has exiled the bees, and taken the boorish next-door neighbor as her lover. Add a mousey family friend, a dutiful gardener, and a visitor from his own romantic past, and like the bees, Felix bumbles to find order amid the chaos. Allusions to Shakespeare's Hamlet anchor this comedy, as it takes the lid off the gardens of British suburbia to explore the physics of attraction and family, and the complex struggle to be (but not to bee) in a constantly shifting universe. Creative: Director - Diego Arciniegas* Felix Humble - Tom O'Keefe * Member, Actors Equity |
