Audio By Carbonatix
MilkMilkLemonade is the kind of play you want to keep George Alan Rekers, the now-infamous anti-gay activist who made a career using Pavlovian punishment on effeminate boys to turn them straight, from seeing. Because MilkMilkLemonade is about a fifth-grade effeminate boy named Emory -— exactly the type Rekers would take to his clinical mills.
In the play, Emory lives in the worst place to be a sissy boy: the heartland. As he enters adolescence, he has to face down a crusty grandmother and a bully with repressed desires. But this play is a whimsical, coming-of-age comedy: For instance, there’s a depressive, aspiring standup comic of a chicken, who’s the boy’s best friend, and a talking spider named Rochelle. MilkMilkLemonade is written by Brooklyn-based Joshua Conkel, and it was named the 2009 Best Off-Off-Broadway Play by New York Press. This is its Florida premiere.
MilkMilkLemonade’ s (tickets cost five bucks less) at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and at 5 p.m. on Sunday at the Empire Stage (1140 N. Flagler Dr., Fort Lauderdale.) Tickets cost $25 or less. The show runs through June 27. Call 954-678-1496, or visit empirestage.com.
Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 5 p.m. Starts: May 27. Continues through June 27, 2010
