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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

 

ADVISORYErma 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.


 

 

 

Elizabeth Hope Clancy

May 8, 2017, 16:58 PM
Role : Costume Designer
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Ms. Clancy designed the costumes on Broadway for A Christmas Story: The Musical; Passing Strange; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Bobbi Boland; and The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. She returns to Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park where she previously designed Dirty Blonde, Much Ado About Nothing and Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. International work includes The Glass Menagerie (Shanghai Dramatic Arts), Death of a Salesman (Gate Theatre in Dublin) and A Few Good Men (West End). New York credits include Measure for Measure (Shakespeare in the Park); The Lady from Dubuque, The Oldest Profession and The Last of the Thorntons (Signature Theatre); Hamlet (Theatre For a New Audience); A Dybbuk and In The Blood (The Public Theater); The Wax and Memory House (Playwrights Horizons); Waiting for Godot, Endgame and The Entertainer (Classic Stage Company); Finer Noble Gases (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); and The Antigone Project (Women’s Project Theater). Regional theatre credits include costume designs for Arena Stage, Guthrie Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Huntington Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre and Geffen Playhouse, among others. Opera credits include The Gypsy Baron, Griffelkin, A Month in the Country and The Rape of Lucretia (Manhattan School of Music); Don Giovanni (Wolf Trap Opera Company); and La Bohème (OperaDelaware). She has been resident costume designer for Sally Silvers Dance since 1997. Ms. Clancy is on the faculty of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where she teaches a course for actors on the psychology of clothes.
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The Feminine Mystique Through Erma Bombeck's Lens

Jun 28, 2017
Aly Michaud

In 1963, suburban housewives rushed out of their homes to purchase what would quickly become one of the most subversive books of the decade: "The Feminine Mystique," written by feminist author and activist Betty Friedan.

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Humor and Grit: Capturing Erma Bombeck

May 2, 2017
Playhouse General User

Barbara Chisholm, who plays Erma Bombeck in Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT'S END sheds light into her character development of this trailblazing woman.

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Erma Bombeck Reading List

Jun 12, 2017
Natalie Clare

Did you leave ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT'S END laughing, reminiscing on your own household comedy hours or feeling an urge to fight for the Equal Rights Amendment? We’ve compiled a list of books in case you’re still wanting more daily life amusement, or if you’re curious about the feminist movement of the 1960s and ‘70s.

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