Wednesday. May 22, 1991 - North Shore News - 27 Dads in’ Bondage, Arts Clab Revue Theatre, ranmng through May. Call G85. fo44 tor ticket imtorma- tion, AVING BABIES has always heen a source of inside jokes for the initiated. A good number of the jokes are about men who crumble into ineptitude around these fragile and demanding creatures, Barbara Black THEATRE REVIEW In Dads in Bondage, currently playing at the Arts Club Revue Theatre, three dads, more by misfortune than choice, plunge in- to the role of primary caregiver, to use a trendy term, braving infant flatulence, malodorous diaper contents and the relentless ran- dom demands of a growing infant. The show has amusing mo- and a homemade clesserE ? ONLY § <= Lo? Ce HHARPIST~ WEDNESORY NIGHTS & SUNDAY BRONCH GMUTARIS T— a] ZHLIESDAY FRIDAY hE. SATUBDAY NIGHTS, JY2 7 MALWE DAWE NEST VANCOWER ments. Bul it’s about as interesting ap listening to those endless baby-had-his-first-poop, burp, and so on tales from new parents. The novelty wears off aiter the second gootchic-goo. DADS STRUGGLING with the woes and joys of fatherhood is the subject of Dads in Bondage, play- ing at the Arts Club Revue Theatre. Pictured are (left to right) Pete Graham, Howard Siegel and Allan Zinyk as the harried dads with their puppet-babies. What playwright Robert More hoped to achieve with this infan- tile comedy Ido not kaow. But even as a sheer entertainment piece it only delivers in fits and starts (or is that burps and farts2). wondedal gruesome dookimg baby puppets made by Ronnie Burkett reminiscent ot that puppet with the squished face whe lived in the well onthe old Pete Rakton show Only a parent could loved face tike that, Allan Zinyk seesned most at case with bis role and detvered: a highly entertaining pertormance as Joey, a bursed-out Latin protessar. His role had a comic edge that Was missing fram the others, Karin Konoval quintuples ably as three wives, a therapist and a pseudo-Dr. Ruth character who offers trite advice on babies, post-babies sex and sleep depriva- tion. Bul the Dr. Ruth persona became just plain silly by the end of the show, My theatre partner, a dad most definitely not in bondage, was of- fended by the implicit message of the show that one or the other spouse should sutfec the burden of childcare, rather than sharing it. And also slightly offensive was the yooey-gushy sony in which Charles’ wife was willing to aban- don her “mate” world tor the world of her child. In the end, all that was offered were the same old rigid absolutes — bondage indeed. photo submitted If feisty, rompy songs like Testosterone outnumbered the wimpy ones, it might have been saved. 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