My Thing of Love

  What the Critics had to say...

...Forget premarital counseling. If you're struggling with whether to take so-and-so to be your lawfully wedded spouse, haul ass to the DCAC to see the Texas-based Fountainhead Theatre's razor-sharp production of Alexandra Gersten's black-coffee comedy, My Thing of Love...

...Jane Curtin lookalike Akin eschews the betrayed-wife stereotype for a humane portrayal of an unhinged, startlingly forthright middle-aged soccer mom who simply refuses to join the First Wives' Club...

...Gersten's polemics mix metaphors with a barbed pestle, all the while dropping unexpected lines of poetry amid the marital in-jokes...

...Mametian sentence-interruptus dialogue becomes strangely moving, if not comforting...

...Jordan T. Pulaski, as the childlike guidance counselor Mr. Garn, delivers a howl-inducing vaudevillian schtick that at first seems gratuitous; but the breathtaking comedy is a necessary aperitif for the wrenching remainder of the play...

...Gersten also deserves credit for her decidedly unpejorative characterization of the Other Woman; the competent Nall adds an extra measure of urgency to the traditionally harrowing love-on-the-rocks template...

- Amanda Fazzone, CityPaper

...Fountainhead, an award-winning theater company newly transplanted from Dallas...

...a hit in Chicago when it premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre in 1992...

...Jorgensen and Akin are both seasoned actors of ability...

...Akin and Jorgensen have played these parts in a successful Dallas production...

...over-the-top comedy...a wood-sniffing school guidance counselor (Jordan Pulaski)...add to the mirth of watching a marriage unravel...

- Dolores Whiskeyman, Washington Post