A message from Martin Dockery:
Friends!
If you're considering coming to see The Surprise - and I hope you are! - then consider coming on Thursday, May 7th. Any of the 5 dates is great (fantastic, actually), but The New York Times is coming to review the show that day, and so it's important to have a good audience.
Maybe I'm mistaken and they're only coming to do research for an article on open relationships (for the Lifestyles section), or an article on secret families (for Weekend Getaways), or a piece on the ancient ruined temple-city of Angkor Wat (for the Ancient Ruined Temples section). As The Surprise is indeed about all these things, it's quite possible The Times is actually devoting an entire edition to it. (Granted, on a slow news day.)
Either way, though, please come! Support the show; have a worthwhile time.
The Surprise
A comic, true monologue about a family rife with secrets... and clueless as to how to reveal them.
Created and Performed by Martin Dockery
Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory
May 7, 9, 11 & 13 @ 7pm
May 10 @ 2pm
DR2 Theatre
103 E 15th St (just off Union Square), NYC
$20 tickets at terranovacollective.org
Or go to Telecharge
More info at martindockery.com
Here are some nice things that have been said about the show:
*Winner* Audience Choice Award, FRIGID Fest NYC 2009
”The Surprise is funny, warm, and entertaining…. A superlative storytelling show, one that offers plenty to laugh about, relate to, and ponder long after the storyteller has left the stage.” —NYTheatre.com
“Dockery is a master at weaving his own personal life into his family saga. Travels, girlfriends, ecstasies and disappointments are masterfully layered with his own brand of neurotic, self-effacing humor.”—NYTheatre-wire.com
"The theatrical hybrid of the website F My Life and a David Sedaris novel."—Washinton Square News
Hope to see you at the show - and if not, then somewhere else soon enough!
A big thanks,
Martin
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