Bosoms and Neglect

by John Guare
directed by Joy Carlin
June 15, 2007 - July 22, 2007

show length: 2 hours

Critically-acclaimed playwright John Guare (Six Degrees of Separation, The House of Blue Leaves) sets his sights simultaneously on the ordinary and the outrageous. The New York Post called this 1978 pre-Prozac Manhattan comedy about love and psychotherapy “screamingly clever, sharp and jet-set.” In Bosoms and Neglect, Scooper, a thrice-weekly psychiatric patient, meets Deirdre, a woman with a five-visits-a-week therapy habit, in the waiting room of their shared psychiatrist. When their doctor goes on vacation, they turn to each other and begin an impassioned affair that gives new dimension to the phrase “crazy in love.”

Ultimately the lovers, along with Scooper’s ailing mother (who waves a plastic statue of St. Jude around in an attempt to heal herself) land in the hospital where all else unravels save for the bandages. Bay Area theater veteran Joy Carlin, who directed Aurora Theatre Company’s triumphant 2005 season opener The Price, directs this deliciously off-center comedy.