There’s no question that Norm Foster’s Jenny’s House of Joy provides plenty of chuckles and
outright belly laughs but there are a few bonuses along the way that include a
touching dramatic element and a storyline from the purely female perspective.
The good news is that
director Rob Coles is well aware that this is a multi-dimensional play, one
that requires a deft hand at both pacing and delivery. He succeeds on every
level, as does a very talented cast of five female actors, on top of their
respective games at all times during this delightfully entertaining production.
Set in a whorehouse in the
town of Baxter Springs, Kansas in 1871, one might expect the usual stereotyped
ladies of the evening, the odd slobbery male client wandering about in his long
johns and a dialogue that simply reeks with double entendres. Not true because
Foster gives his audiences what is quite an enduring and thoughtful look at
frontier life for those aforementioned women with both bawdy laughter and a
large measure of compassion and pathos. more.......
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