A WOMAN’S LOVE LIST: WHEN WISHES COME TRUE, ARE THEY TOO GOOD TO BELIEVE?

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com

GRAVENHURST — A woman’s idea of a mate is not the same as a man’s ideal woman.

Or is it?

Norman Foster’s second go at The Love List is the XY version of his first XX rated comedy that made fun of the shallow male obsession.

A Woman’s Love List is about as funny as his original play of the same name.

But with the added twist of an Adam and Eve role reversal.

Love List II is Sex in the City and 3’s Company, too.

Summer theatre for TV lovers at the Gravenhurst Opera House to Aug. 2 Tickets $35.

Kristen Da Silva, as Carly, and Laura Tremblay, as Megan, draw up the ideal man in A Woman’s Love List that funny thing lets them change their minds and man for good and bad. PHOTOS Gravenhurst Opera House

Carly (Kirsten Da Silva) is Canadian sports writer whose apartment like her life is anally organized.

Her bestie Megan (Laura Tremblay) — a hair dresser — is her “bitter, jaded” and “jealous friend.”

Together they are BFFs.

Until Megan buys “Love (Wish) List” from her crazy Aunt Buela, a shady shaman.

Or is she a “witch?”

A match maker who for 20 bucks will make Carly’s man appear as the yin to her yang.

Sounds easy and makes for a lot of dreamy, farcical and ultimately delusional choices.

Including — and unbelievably to Megan — with “great sex” ranking a low as No. 4.

Megan even claims “good sense of humour” is over-rated.

But when charming Blaze (Jamie Mac), a good talker in bed and with Dracula lips fulfills her craving for a cuddly “kiss on the neck,” bounds through her door in the name of a former uni fling beau, Carly is swept off her feet.

And she says Megan is “jealous” of what her “narcissistic” friend lacks and the two almost fall apart as everything on the wish list comes true

Write it, erase it and it’s real.

Honey, I’m home. What happens when two besties meet Blake (Jamie Mac), the man of their dreams when he comes back into their lives and acts at the whims of their pencil and paper?

But what in Blaze happens in the second act when changes in heart of Carly affect the trajectory of this love story when he moves in and then, poof, suddenly disappears out the door without a trace.

Figment of an imagination or Dallas dream wake-up call?

Foster fosters the independent search for love between men and women in this lovely human play of words and phantasies.

Da Silva, Tremblay and Mac are right for each other in this love triangle of odd sorts.

Each stars on their own with comfortably convincing ease and the authentic experience of Canadian stage and in film.

 

A Woman’s Love List is runs to Aug. 2 at the Gravenhurst Opera House.

https://www.gravenhurst.ca/opera-house/shows/live-theatre/

 

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