Life in a Marital Institution (20 years of Monogamy in One Terrifying Hour) is Jame Braly’s tour-de-force monologue playing at 59E59, a theater located at 59 East 59th Street in Manhattan February 19-March 16. www.ticketcentral.com
 

Go see it. It could help (your marriage, that is).

OTBKB friend and fave, Anna Becker of Deep End Productions, is the producer and the word on certain Park Slope blocks is that the show is very funny, edgy, smart, and full of insight and poignancy about the state of contemporary marriage. Becker also runs the Insights and Revelations Performance series in Westchester.

Love, lust, betrayal, death and dinner parties, this well-written show was directed by Hal Brooks (a Pulitzer Prize finalist) and has been at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, the Whitney Museum, and on NPR.

After the March 6th show, there will be a discussion with a matrimonial lawyer. And on March 9th, a discussion with the Executive Director of The Moth, New York’s premiere storytelling venue and Braly. Friday night, they had an after-show discussion with a marriage counselor.

Here are some of the great reviews the show has been garnering in its various incarnations. They loved it at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh.

“A masterpiece of storytelling full of humour and pungent observation. There can be few more engaging acts on this year’s Fringe than James Braly.”
    — The List

"An hysterically funny, often profoundly affecting one-man show.Mesmerising.”
      — The Scotsman

“Excellent. This is a stylish monologue, reminiscent of those of Spalding Gray.”
  — The London Times