Not, she adds, that the play itself would put it in those terms. “It has serious overtones,” Newcomb-Madden observes, “but it’s a comedy. The family has bowling in common, and that’s kind of a hook for the transition within the framework of the family. The mother’s a TV mother in a bit of an alcoholic haze, and she eventually finds herself, and her children do, too. So it’s metaphor for the times, but it’s also a great time.” As for Newcomb-Madden’s own experience with those times, she jokes, “We just hoped to hell our kids wouldn’t turn out to be druggies.”
While We Were Bowling opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Aurora Fox Theatre, 9900 East Colfax Avenue, and continues through May 8; for tickets ($18-$24), showtimes or more information, go to www.aurorafox.org or call 303-739-1970.
Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. Starts: April 8. Continues through May 8, 2011
