The Meaning
of Wife
2009 - Tour, USA
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Erin Judge, Ailin Conant Dorie Kinnear |
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.
The Meaning of Wife was developed in Boston and toured in MA (Cambridge YMCA, The Comedy Studio, Wellesley College); CA (The Broadway Playhouse); and NY (The TANK, The Actor's Playhouse - FringeNYC) in 2009 (read reviews).