A play that’s touring the country who’s main character is a recent art therapy graduate, who can’t find a job and who ends up moving back in with her parents.
Tigers Be Still has great reviews, and even had an extended showing in NYC. But, isn’t it disturbing that the whole basis of the play is that this recent art therapy grad can’t find a job? But, don’t tell that to the educators who claim a large percentage of new grads go on to work in the field.
Anyhow, I missed the play while it was in SF…but if anyone sees it, I’d love to hear a review. Next stop is the Dobama Theatre in Cleveland October 21 – November 13, 2011.
Here’s the Dobama’s description of the play:
Critically acclaimed in its 2010 New York premiere, TIGERS BE STILL is a quirky, endearing and deliciously dark new comedy. Sherry Wickman, a young woman expects the perfect career and life to fall into place immediately upon earning her master’s degree in art therapy. Instead, Sherry finds herself unemployed, overwhelmed and back at home hiding out in her twin-sized childhood bed. But when Sherry gets hired as a substitute art teacher, things begin to brighten up. Now if only her mother would come downstairs, her sister would get off the couch, her very first therapy patient would do just one of his take-home assignments, her new boss would leave his gun at home, and someone would catch the tiger that escaped from the local zoo, everything would be just perfect.