Staged Play Reading by the Theater Project: "Losing It . . . And Getting It Back"

Veteran improv comedy performer Deb Maclean will perform her one-woman short play, Losing It . . . And Getting It Back. Admission is free and all are welcome. The play is a product of the Theater Project’s Playwrights Workshop. The Theater Project is an acclaimed, New Jersey-based professional theater group and the winner of two New Jersey Tony Awards. In Losing It . . . And Taking It Back a woman takes a humorous look at her life as she moves from middle age to whatever comes next. She realizes that, as you get older, you start to lose it . . . and people and things – your memory, your figure, night vision, and the fun of flirting. Slipping in and out of hilariously offbeat characters, Ms. Maclean takes audiences on a wild ride as she figures out how to regain what she’s lost, while showing us that it’s never too late to be young again. Ms. Maclean began her improv comedy career in Los Angeles, where she performed with Dee Marcus, and continued to do improv in New York, where she performed with the much celebrated comedy group Shock of the Funny. She is the founder and director of Lunatic Fringe, New Jersey’s top improv comedy group, now in its 19th season. Ms. Maclean recently appeared at The Theater Project in Moonlight and Magnolias and George Bush, Commissioner of Baseball. In New Jersey she has also performed at Luna Stage, 12 Miles West, the Puffin Foundation and the Garage Theatre. She has also appeared at the West Bank Theater in New York and the Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles. Following the performance, the audience will have the opportunity to discuss the work with the author. The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Cranford Public Library.