Directed by DAVID ESBJORNSON
If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. From
her home outside Dayton, Ohio, bestselling author Erma Bombeck gave a
hilarious voice to ordinary suburban housewives everywhere, using humor
to tell the reality of her life and theirs. At Wit’s End
chronicles Bombeck’s fascinating story, beginning in 1964 with the
launch of her groundbreaking newspaper column through her emergence as
America’s favorite mother, with top billing on kitchen refrigerators
from coast to coast. Filled with Bombeck’s own wit and wisdom, this new
play paints a warm and funny portrait of the woman who dared to ask, "If
life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?"
"Immensely entertaining." — TheaterMania
ADVISORY: Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End is appropriate for adult and teenage audiences. It contains no adult language.
RUNNING TIME: Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End runs approximately 65 minutes with no intermission.
Barbara Chisholm
May 8, 2017, 16:54 PM
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Erma Bombeck
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Ms. Chisholm couldn’t be happier to be making her Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut in Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End. Hailing from Austin, Texas, she has appeared regionally in Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.; Keep Your Forks at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins in Austin; The Women at San Diego Repertory Theatre; and in multiple appearances with the iconoclastic Rude Mechs. Film credits include a supporting role in the Oscar-nominated Boyhood, the recently released Mr. Roosevelt and Fast Food Nation, among others. On television she had a recurring role in season one of the Emmy Award-winning ABC series American Crime and an appearance in Friday Night Lights. She has been voted Best Actor three times in the Austin Chronicle’s annual Best of Austin readers’ poll, and she has been the recipient of multiple B. Iden Payne Awards, Austin Critics’ Table Awards and Drama-Logue Awards for acting. As Producing Director of Red Then Productions, Ms. Chisholm starred in Sherry Kramer’s solo work When Something Wonderful Ends and produced two highly successful and critically acclaimed runs of a one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. She is married to award-winning journalist, director and actor Robert Faires and is the proud parent of recent UT honors graduate and early-career director, Rosalind Faires.
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