A neurotic, exhibitionist, Peeping Tom vagrant, Parker, who thinks he is a bird, jumps from a roof and injures himself falling on to a balcony. He crawls into Lilly and Morgan’s bedroom during the night looking for help. Their monotonous middle class lives which are challenged by aging, downsizing, failing health and the inability to communicate effectively with each other is forced into contemplating the meaning in life by this shocking visit.
Soon, Lilly ends up warming up to the vagrant and spends the night going down to the ravine with him where he lives. This homeless feeling she gets proves to be exciting in contrast to her own boring life. In the meantime her enraged abandoned husband has a heartache episode. When she returns in the morning they actually begin to talk about important things like fidelity, his use of pornography, her brave encounter as a teacher with a shooter in school, their inability to have children, their love for each other, and her fantasy of getting it on with the virile young vagrant.
From a startling and scary invasive incident came an enlightening experience. There were moments of excitement, humor, tenderness, sadness and joy as well as some unexpected frontal nudity in this thoroughly entertaining theatrical production.
The Goodnight Bird continues until March 22, 2015.
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Written by Collen Murphy
Directed by Roy Surette
Starring:
Nicola Cavendish Lilly Beaumont
Graham Cuthbertson Parker
Christopher Hunt Morgan Beaumont
