There can be few more life-altering occasions then welcoming a baby into your world. Creating a family is exciting, overwhelming, rewarding and, in mostinstances, an experimental learning trial depending on how well prepared you are for the changes that occur. It’s kind of a ready-or-not event.
Without the pains of childbirth, the New Haven Theater Company invites you to “Cry It Out” by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Marty Tucker, weekends until Saturday, March 2, which takes us literally out of the warm comforting womb and into the realities of birth. Two new moms, with no one but their babies to coo to, meet over melons at Stop and Shop. Their instant recognition of need for support brings them to their shared backyard for more than friendship: a sisterhood. Deena Nicol-Blifford’s sassy Lina with her frazzled home life and economical needs is a wonderful contrast to Jenny Schuck’s privileged lawyer/mom Jessie, yet the two snap together faster than a small size infant onesie.
Jessie had a traumatic time at delivery that makes going back to the corporate world virtually impossible. How can she leave Allison, her miracle child? Lina, for all her smart wit, is terrified to leave her Max with her almost mother-in-law who drinks and lies about it. But she has no choice financially.
Enter into the backyard koffee klatch Ruben Ortiz as Mitchell who literally lives above them on a cliff of wealthy homes. His wife, Melissa Andersen’s Adrienne, is a successful jewelry designer who seems to be having great difficulty bonding emotionally to motherhood. He wants Jessie and Lina to help her cope.
Molly Smith Metzler writes from personal experience as a new mom so you will identify with many of the issues. The title refers to the practice of letting babies “cry it out” when put to sleep. For tickets ($20), go online to www.newhaventheatercompany.com. Check performances at the English Building Market, 839 Chapel Street, New Haven Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., and Saturday at 8 p.m. Come a little early and browse all the shelves of the market before you settle in the back in the theater’s intimate setting.
Explore the pangs and joys of motherhood, counting ten precious fingers and toes, hugging powder scented little ones, changing countless diapers, sleepless nights and adjusting to life with a miraculous gift. Let this talented quartet create a world well worth remembering.
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