The Love Patch
Written and Directed by Robert Wright
What the hell is a Love Patch? Well, as Neon explains in the play: "What if there as a product that could cure love in just 7 days? Something you could just stick on and feel the pain melt away? Think of it; we'd be rich!" And so the plot is hatched: with a product that is part nicotine patch, part Prozac, but 100% scam. And scams are what The Love Patch is all about.
Performed at Theatre on the Isle's Fall Festival of Plays on Bowen Island, the Love Patch is OutCast Production's sequel to Waiting On Reno. In it, poor old Anton returns to Reno's Cafe, the skid row diner that was his demise in the first play. Once again he seeks solace in fortune telling , but instead finds himself in the midst of a world of street people with "big dreams and small change".
A rollicking comedy of scams, errors and luck leads to one of the strangest boy meets girl stories to hit the stage when Reno, the old resident Tarot Card Reader, meets his match in Fran, a crystal ball toting bag lady just blown in from Toronto. And all this is performed in front of miraculous special effects that transform the grimy diner set into a huge Flag of Love.
Described as "a divine renovation!", " a tour de farce", or "the most confusing bit of nonsense I've ever witnessed", The Love Patch nonetheless packed the audiences in, filled their hearts, and emptied our wallets.
Catch the Patch! A smoke after love will never be the same.
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