By Ernest Kearney — There is a great deal of love and passion that has gone into Shannon Penrod’s one woman show The Autism Mamalogues; which is understandable as she is a self-described “Autism Mom.”
The show starts in her childhood, as a little girl afraid of getting “farm wife arm” when she grew up, where from elbow to chest there would dangle “a Jell-O mold in a haunted house from hell.”
But it is the realization that something is wrong with a neighbor’s son… something that makes him different from the other children and something that the adults don’t speak of… that brings in a foreshadowing of things to come.
Penrod pulls out all the tricks she can in relating the slings and arrows that any parent faces when a child of theirs has special needs.
She and director Therese McLaughlin use video segments to good ends— mocking the bureaucrats one must face in seeking any federal or state support—as a game show that checks the contestants for Autism awareness, with Penrod fulfilling multiple roles.
At the conclusion, Penrod fashions the show into a heartfelt thank you to CARD (the Center for Autism and Related Disorders), the program and its personnel that
has been of such benefit to her and her son.
A little rough around the edges, yes, but a show of great heart.
A SILVER MEDAL.
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The Autism Mamalogues
Played During the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018
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