Asolo Repertory Theatre has announced the addition of My Brilliant Divorce to its 2012-2013 lineup. The one-woman comedy by Geraldine Aron will have its regional premiere at Asolo Rep from June 26-July 14 with preview performances June 23 & 25. My Brilliant Divorce will be directed by Asolo Rep Producing Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards.
“A script like My Brilliant Divorce comes along once in a lifetime,” said Edwards. “The whole notion that a divorce – probably one of the single most painful and traumatic experiences anyone can have in life – could actually be ‘brilliant,’ really intrigued me. The play is grounded in elements of a genuinely lived experience – though it’s not autobiographical – and the character’s ‘voice’ is very authentic. It deals with an emotional subject with humor and humanity.”When asked how the play relates to Asolo Rep’s new American Character project, he added, “It’s important that she be American, that she’s an American ‘out of water’ – coping with London, with a British husband, with the reality that even her daughter is a little alien to her because her daughter’s more British than she is. The openness, the ease, the lack of guile in the British world is part of what it is to be an American, and at first it puts her at a disadvantage in coping with the charged emotional layers of complication in British life, but in the end it’s to her advantage. It’s her American character that pulls her through the experience.”Videos