The Meaning of Wife
2008-2009: Boston, MA, USA.Cast: Erin Judge and Ailin Conant
Directed by Dorie Kinnear
"Hilarious performances...Conant’s impersonations and Judge’s comedic timing complement each other well in this honest exploration of modern marriage, proving anew that variety is the spouse of life." ~ Time Out New York
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Boston-area comedian Erin Judge (Comedy Central's Live at Gotham) teams up with Ailin Conant for this hilarious examination of contemporary marriage.
Erin and Ailin have been friends (and sometimes, ahem, more than friends) since college. Now in their mid-twenties, these two women both find themselves in the unexpected position of being somebody's wife. Ailin also HAS a wife (which is pretty confusing for people's grandmothers), while Erin has a husband, matching towels, and a huge white dress that she has justifed holding on to by doing this show.
The Meaning of Wife is part sketch comedy, part public relations campaign, and all way too much information about Erin and Ailin. This funny and brutally honest piece explores what marriage looks like in some of its newest manifestations (read: gay ones) and its most traditional (read: a white dude and a white chick), and what every kind of marriage has to teach us all about what it means to be a wife.
Press/Reviews
nytheatre.com
New Theater Corps
The Comedians Magazine
Funny Grown Here
The Boston Globe
"The Meaning of Wife" premiered in October at the YMCA Theatre in Cambridge and has played at Tank at Chashama (NYC), The Comedy Studio (Harvard Square, Boston, MA), Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA), The Broadway Playhouse (Santa Cruz, CA) and FringeNYC (NYC).
