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ALL IN THE TIMING
ANOTHER FEMME FATALE FREAK SHOW
BEAVERZILLA
BILL'S FAMILY FUNTIME
BIRD CLUB: LETTER TO SANDRA BERNHARD
BRACE YOURSELF
BY A THREAD
CHARLIE'S ANGEL
CONDOM, THE CUCUMBER AND THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA
DAY TRIPPERS IV: PLAY- IN-A- DAY MARATHON
DIAMONDS
DUET
FAMILY TREE
FANTASTIC PRODUCT
FAREWELL TO FLESH
FINAL EXAM
FRANKENSTEIN: THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
GILD THE LILY
GOD COMPLEX
HEART OF DARKNESS
HOW TO BE A SECRET AGENT GIRL…
HUNTING OF THE SNARK
INGRATITUDE
INTERSTATE ZERO: A MONO/TRAVELOG
KITTY ULTRASOUND HITS THE ROAD
KRESKINNED
LAST SMOKER IN BERKELEY
LISTEN, I'M ONLY ONE WOMAN…
LITTLE BIT PREGNANT
LOOSE WOMAN
LUCID
MACY'S ACCOUNT
MEET JOHN W.T.O.
MIDAIR: ODES TO EASYCOMEASYGO
MOCK NAVAL BATTLES!!!
MOTHER'S MILK
ONE OR TWO THINGS
PILGRIM PROJECT
QUEENS RAIN
QUEENS!
SEARCHING FOR THE 60'S
SHANDYLAND MCVII: SHANDY IN THE FLESH…
SHARED SKITLESS
SISTERS OF SATURN
STORE ONE BLOCK EAST OF JEROME
STRANGER AND STRANGER
TOASTED
UNDERHOPE
WARZONE
WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE
YOGA OF MOBY DICK
ZOO STORY
lay: LITTLE BIT PREGNANT
Reviewer: Terrie Gottstein
Reviewer Email: webster@alaska.net
Rating: 5 Stars
I was fortunate enough to see this play when it had its premiere in Anchorage.
Playwright/actress Barbara Brown's weekly columns for the Anchorage Daily
News reflect her talent for taking events in her daily life, and presenting
them in a way that makes us laugh, cry, and think. With this play, she
has not only managed to WRITE brilliantly about a particularly frustrating,
painful and personal time in her own life with that same sense of humor
and depth, but, through her authentic performance, she has also dared to
expose the tender underbelly of all of our most private hopes and dreams.
A LITTLE BIT PREGNANT illuminates a portrait of a woman--decidedly of our
time--dealing with the double-edged blade of opportunities and disappointments
that this time has made possible for us all. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll
think, you'll remember. Don't miss it!
Play: A Little Bit Pregnant
Reviewer: Chris Chiei, Director, Alaska Design Forum
Reviewer Email: cchiei@kpb-alaska.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Barbara Brown transforms her own person struggles with infertility into
to a brilliant theatrical performance. Using simple props, she leads the
audience on an emotional roller coaster ride, cresting peaks of optimism
and valleys of denial. At every turn, a perfect balance of sensitive candor
and brilliant humor.
Her approach strikes a cord in each of us, affording us each a reflection
of our own personal struggles and our drive to overcome or accept.
I am thrilled to see this fine work live on.
Play: A Little Bit Pregnant
Reviewer: Pam McDowell Saylor
Reviewer Email: bsaylor@arctic.net
Rating: None
Barbara Brown is, among other things, a regular columnist for the Anchorage
Daily News. Her writing and acting abilities both shine in her one-woman
play "A Little Bit Pregnant". She unabashedly invites us into
a woman's private bedroom/bathroom/gynecologist's exam room world. This
world is the stage of her own psyche which has been enlarged by experiences
of friends in the similar situation of "trying to get pregnant".
It is a world seldom discussed in mixed company, much less shown on stage.
As she peels off the veils of "propriety", she manages to do so
without, if I remember correctly, even so much as exposing her belly button.
The play, along with its set and props, is highly original and humorous. Barbara's acting is confident and "in your face". The fourth wall is pretty much down and she directly engages the audience throughout. The topic is poignant; the subject is delicate. Yet her confidence, engagement of the audience, and sense of humor hold it all together in a coherent package that lodges in the memory and rises up to provoke thought and tickle the funny bone long after the performance.