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Red Rock Community College's adaptation of Christopher Durang's play Baby with the Bathwater, directed by James O'Leary, concluded its 8-show run with a sold out finale performance on Sunday April 23rd, 2005.
When the lights came up on the bassinet in the otherwise darkness of the stage, the image more or less stands for everything that follows – childhood, loneliness and abandonment. It seems that an icon of the entire human experience, not just the implied infancy, is being presented. When the lights come up even further, the bassinet gives way in significance to a married couple standing over it: John (Kyle LaBoria), the father that coos at "Daddy's little baked potato," and Helen (Amien Conway), the mother who object to him calling their baby a vegetable.
Durang had an interesting way of making illogical disconnections seem perfectly logical. A good example of this is Nanny. Sweeping onto the stage with demonic energy and a warped tinge of Mary Poppins, Nanny......

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