The Honeymoon Period is Officially Over
10:00 PM, Fri., 2/27
2:30 PM, Sat., 2/28
8:30 PM, Sat., 2/28
2:30 PM, Sun., 3/1
7:00 PM Wed., 3/4
Dianna’s South (726 N. Fulton St.)
$7
Talking chickens, a timid rodent, a funky sax and jumping flames… Gemma Wilcox (London, UK) portrays 20 characters in this humorous & poignant tale of love and letting go. Telling the story of Sandra & her world of complex relationships, Wilcox transforms seamlessly from male to female, from feline to mysterious fowl, in her awardwinning, one woman show.
“Sexy, sharp & seemless”–Now Toronto
“She shows you what theater can be” –Orlando Sentinel
“Shape-shifter extraordinaire” –Ottawa Citizen
Best in Fest –Winnipeg Fringe07
Best Solo Performance – Ottawa Fringe07
Best in Fest –BoulderFringe 2007
Gemma Wilcox
www.gemmawilcox.com
London, UK
Genre: Solo performance
Rating: PG-14 60 minutes
Adult language and mild sexual content
No Latecomers will be admitted
Filed under: 2/27 Friday, 2/28 Saturday, 3/1 Sunday, 3/4 Wednesday, Dianna's South
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February 11th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Morphing flawlessly into flirtatious feline, brutish bloke or the dancing flames of a fire, actor/writer/director Gemma Wilcox bends and contracts her supple frame into a dozen or more characters who breathe life and humour into what could have easily been another dour kitchen sink drama about a relationship going awry. Sexy, sharp and seamless.
- NOW TORONTO
February 27th, 2009 at 11:57 am
This woman is brilliant! The short promo I saw last night at the Rogue kick-off at Full Circle convinced me that I have to see the whole show - and you do too!
Funny, and yes sexy… her control of body language is phenomenal!!
February 28th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Oh. My. God.
This is the best show I have seen in the 8 years of the Rogue Festival. This is one of the best shows/performances/scripts I have seen in my 45 years of life.
I wonder what it would have been like to not know who Albert Einstein was, and to just have showed up at one of his master lectures. Partway through, you realize you’re sitting and watching genious at work.
That was my exact feeling. Seeing Gemma Wilcox today was like having the opportunity to see the young Meryl Streep onstage. Gemma is as versatile and hard-working an actress as I might have ever seen not yet on Broadway. She’s a firestorm of subtlety, internalization and believability. Uta Hagen is standing and clapping, wherever she may be now.
I remember seeing Alan Autry trying to teach his acting class how to internalize, and he stood in front of them and shifted his eyes a bit and squinted once and I saw nothing. When Gemma pantomimes smoking a cigarette, I swear I saw smoke come out of her mouth when she exhaled. She isn’t acting…she just IS.
HUGE KUDOS to the volunteers at Diana’s South who did the tech. The lighting was brilliant and the timing on all the cues was near-perfect…which is fantastic, as there was then nothing to distract me from the important work Gemma was giving us.
This is what “Some Reckless Abandon” can only aspire to be, but doesn’t have the brilliance of the script and the extraordinary actress, rehearsed to perfection.
I have NO issues with over-promoting this show. Gemma can take it. However! You’d better get in line early…Dianna’s South doesn’t hold that many people. I hope everyone gets a chance to see this, before they see Gemma winning an Academy Award on TV. Yes. She’s really that good. The show is really that amazing. So much so, I have to say it again: This is the best show I’ve seen in the 8 years of the Rogue Festival…and we’ve all seen some really amazing shows.
Do. Not. Miss.
March 1st, 2009 at 11:11 am
Gemma Wilcox in ‘The Honeymoon Period is Officially Over’ is a comedic take on a relationship gone bad in which Gemma breathes life into many personas, animal and human, skillfully painting a scene with her expressions, body language, and accent. If you see only one show I highly recommend ‘The Honeymoon Period is Officially Over’, and arrive early as this show WILL sell out!
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:19 am
A great presentation and a very entertaining show; one can almost forget that there is only one person performing all of the characters and that there are no props. In addition to women and men, Gemma convincingly portrays animals and inanimate objects. I highly recommend seeing this show.
(The only flaw is not with Gemma but with the venue. The chairs for the audience are over packed; you may have trouble getting a clear view of the stage unless you are in the front row.)
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:32 am
Gemma Wilcox is a shape-shifter. If you go see “The Honeymoon Period is Officially Over,” you will witness this extraordinarily talented young woman morph back and forth not only between multiple characters, but also chickens, a hamster, a marvelously narcissistic cat, and (my favorite) a transcendent peacock. Oh, and fire. Yes, she does elements, too. If you don’t make it to another Rogue show this year, DO NOT MISS THIS ONE. Gemma Wilcox is nothing short of splendid.
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 am
WOW!!! What a tour de force!!! Gemma is amazing!!! She has the ability to make you visualize every personality, animal and element with such graceful movement and infliction! The dialogue is brilliant, humorous and honest! A master storyteller! I was enthralled! BRAVO!!!!
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:30 am
Brilliant. There is a high level of craft at work here–both in the writing and performing.
You have one more chance to see it: Wed.the 4th—unless they’ve added some?
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:35 am
The Honeymoon Period Is Offically Over was one of the best one person shows that I have ever seen.
Gemma reminds me of the performers I used to see at Second City in Chicago in the mid sixties.
She is extremely talented and will keep you laughing as well as in awe of her ability to shift from one character to another.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:10 pm
What an amazing show! She pulls off a character study with at least 7 human characters and 5 non-human characters, and I found myself really caring about what happened to all of them. Her seamless character transitions were mesmerizing, and the fact that she could transport the audience so effortlessly into the characters’ lives with no props or costume changes was captivating. Very effective use of lighting to help transport the audience to flashbacks and back again. I never felt confused about which character she was performing at any given time. I especially liked her animal characters, like the peacock or the cat.
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Yes, it is possible for one woman to be that talented!!! See this show!!! Don’t know what more to say. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Gemma. I hope we see you next year!!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:00 am
Go to the Tower District on Wed., Mar. 4 for her last show (7 P.M.) if you haven’t seen it. Brilliant, poignant, funny, serious, graceful, inventive…. She totally becomes a peacock, a cat, a saxophone, and a whole family of people.
March 5th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
This was an afterthought for us…we slid in on a lark after another show. Wow, what a bonus!! Engaging, amazing, and altogether incredible. Thank you for sharing your gifts with us, and hope you come again next year!
March 9th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Gemma Wilcox is a great performer. I walked away thinking about how talented this young woman is to play so many distinct characters, but even just going over her performance again a couple times in my head, I find more and more reasons why it was a great performance. There’s comedy and wit, there’s seriousness, but there’s even a cartoonish element to a couple of her characters. It’s almost impossible, when she’s depicting a saxophone, or the cat, or the hamster, not to picture these characters as animated cartoons. And yet, she quickly shifts back to depicting complex human characters and does it effortlessly.
I’m used to liking the more comedic or musical performances at the Rogue Festival, since the one-woman dramatic shows I’ve seen have usually been too serious or boring. This one felt a little long, for sure, but I think it was mostly due to the venue (the chairs were packed in so tight it was hot and uncomfortable) and only a little because I was starting to lose interest toward the end. Still, Gemma Wilcox is great. I hope she comes back for the Rogue next year.
March 14th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Just because she can do a lot of voices and has a great deal of dexterity doesn’t mean it’s a good show. The story got lost in her showing off just how many poses she can hold and how many voices she can do. This show has everything I hate. One person playing dozens of characters, audience interaction and useless movement that has nothing to do with the plot. Why oh why did she have to play the fire? That bit made no sense to me.