Take Your Pick Productions Presents LOST GIRLS

This January 2018, Take Your Pick Productions will mount its sophomore show, the New England premiere of LOST GIRLS by John Pollono, at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts (Deane Hall). Set in New Hampshire, Lost Girls is a darkly comedic drama about the strength of the women in a dysfunctional blue-collar New England family. It will run from January 12th through January 21st, 2018.

Take Your Pick Productions (TYP), founded in 2017 as a spin-off of Happy Medium Theatre Company, is a Boston-based nonprofit theatre company. Its mission is to crowd-source all artistic themes directly from Boston artists; through online and in-person focus groups, TYP identifies focal points that are currently top-of-mind in the community, and finds relevant shows that bring these to life on the stage.

TYP's first production, Douglas Carter Beane's THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, went up this past spring and was nominated for Outstanding Fringe Production by the Elliot Norton Committee, which was an honor not often experienced by fledgling companies, and for which TYP was extremely grateful. This new company hopes to continue this success and momentum in its next endeavor, LOST GIRLS.

Audrey Lynn Sylvia, TYP's Executive Director said, "We decided to produce LOST GIRLS after our most recent artist focus group hit upon the need to highlight the faces of feminism outside of major metropolitan areas in America. Our participants made the point that women (and men) are fighting for social equality of the sexes every day, across the globe, in ways that aren't always evident to us if they don't show up at the Boston Common protest or post about it on Facebook."
Sylvia continued, "...and that doesn't mean their fight is any more or less important, just different. Especially with the absence of a wealthy urban venue and the options that privilege often affords those of us lucky enough to live in a place like Boston."

Playwright John Pollono has written the blue-collar women in LOST GIRLS as veritable superheroes, even though their opportunities are limited. Director Melanie Garber remarks, "These women in LOST GIRLS, they're feminists, both real and raw. This play is not about the plight of the sad, small-town female in New England. It is about women who we should celebrate, toss out the pity-party." Garber continues, "These women have fought for what they have, are proud and passionate and successful in their own right."

Pollono himself is a New Hampshire native who also wrote the screenplay for STRONGER, the recent film about Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman (played by Jake Gyllenhaal), which was released in September 2017. The film was also lauded for its complex female characters who are, in many ways, the driving force behind the whole story.

Through LOST GIRLS, TYP hopes to spark conversations around how Boston artists can integrate our fight for equality across more diverse groups of women, and across more diverse groups of people in general, to drive real progress in the community.

Very special thanks to the Bob Jolly Charitable Trust for its financial support of LOST GIRLS.

PRODUCTION STAFF:
Playwright: John Pollono
Director: Melanie Garber
Assistant Director: Audrey Seraphin
Stage Manager: Marian Jackson
Assistant Stage Manager: Audrey Seraphin
Scenic Designer: Melanie Garber
Lighting Designer: Michael Clark Wonson
Props Master: Owen Rehrauer
Sound Designer: Audrey Seraphin
Costume Coordinator: Mikey DiLoreto
Graphic Designer: Karen Ladany
Social Media Manager: Corey Clark
Fundraising Advisor: Stacy Fox

DATES OF PRODUCTION:

Week 1:
January 12, 8 PM (PREVIEW)
January 13, 4 PM
January 13, 8 PM
January 14, 4 PM
Week 2:
January 17, 7:30 PM (INDUSTRY NIGHT)
January 18, 7:30 PM
January 19, 8 PM
January 20, 4 PM
January 20, 8 PM
January 21, 2 PM

TICKET INFORMATION:
Adults - $28 for general admission; please find us on Goldstar for discounts on opening weekend and Wednesday/Thursday night performances throughout the run!
https://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/Lost-Girls/