Not everything works quite as well as the above playlets.
Likewise, Act Two’s pièce de résistance, “Hank And Karen Sue,” takes a pair of 40/50something Texas barflies from playful flirtation (“You look very, very pretty tonight.” “Well thank you!”) to a far deeper look at loneliness and need, this time round giving Hunter the chance to gender-bend. “Futon Talk” starts off with married man Bill (Flanagan in male mode) fuming about an overheard remark (his wife Jeanine called an ex “Jack The Jackhammer” before bragging about “how he would pound away for hours and never get tired”) to a more serious examination of what makes a marriage work. the one that tells us abortion is bad) to a car ride that turns everything on its ear. “God” takes Catholic best friends Tina and Terri from mangled prayers at age six (“Give us our trespassers and we’ll give you our trespassers”) to teenage campfire chat (“Can you believe that Mark Davis came to Camp Christ? He is so cute!”) to grown-up rejection of church teachings (e.g. “Three Sisters” explores adult female relationships as siblings Lizzie, Marla, and Karen, reunited by a grandparent’s death, revive resentments, reveal secrets, and repair broken bonds. (If Annette found her boyfriend cheating on her, she would definitely not break up with him “because I love him … but first I would kill him.”)
PARALLEL LIVES MOVIE
“Annette And Gina” has two teenage Jersey Girl besties musing over West Side Story (“That movie is a lot like Romeo And Juliet! No, just think about it!), then pondering what they’d each one do for love. Since its 1980s origin as a self-penned Mo Gaffney/Kathy Najimy showcase, Parallel Lives has taken on a life of its own, allowing actresses like Crista Flanagan (The Mad Show, Mad Men) and Alice Hunter (House Of Lies, Another Period) to explore gender roles while taking us from childhood to retirement age with stops in between (and a matched set of “Supreme Beings” skits to start off and finish the show).
PARALLEL LIVES TV
A pair of busy TV actresses prove they can light up the Falcon Theatre stage as brightly as they shine on the small screen in Parallel Lives, the talented twosome bringing character after character after character to hilarious (and occasionally poignant) life while managing at the same time to comment on gender, age, sexuality, and the whole damn thing.
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