Jobsite Theater takes on another challenging play with its latest production, Woman in Mind, a black comedy by Alan Ayckbourn that offers a glimpse into the psychosis of a middle-aged, middle-class housewife who is struggling with the tedious reality of her life and the appealing ideality of a life that never happened — her fantasy life. After getting smacked in head with the handle of the rake and knocking herself out, she regains consciousness to find that she has hallucinated her faux family — made up of a doting husband, perfect daughter and debonair brother — into existence with her actual, less desirable family of inattentive vicar husband, eccentric sister-in-law and aloof son. Events unavoidably spin out of control and chaos and farce build to a humorously frenzied and nightmarish climax; David M. Jenkins directs. June 7-24, 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat., 4 p.m. Sun., Shimberg Playhouse-Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 1010 N. MacInnes Place, downtown Tampa, $19.50-$24.50, 813-229-7827, jobsitetheater.org.
This article appears in Jun 6-12, 2007.