Play Reading: Jenny’s House of Joy by Norm Foster

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December 15 – 2pm at the Rollo Centre
Play:      Jenny’s House of Joy by Norm Foster
Cast:      5 women
Jenny’s House Of Joy is set in a whorehouse in the town of Baxter Springs, Kansas in the year 1871.  Playwright Norm Foster describes his Jenny’s House of Joy as a western rather than a comedy. To be sure, this sit-com with a difference still has plenty of comic, sometimes raw, one-liners – as expected in a Foster script. But this tale of five women in a bordello in the 1870s Wild West has a serious undertone as it focuses on the humanity of the occupants rather than on the goods they sell nightly.  Jenny’s House of Joy is apparently not always a joyous place for the staff. Even so, Foster presents the life of the ladies of the night through rose-coloured glasses most of the time. The message is that it is impossible to leave the life, but who would want to anyway, when this is where your true friends are?  Please confirm your attendance to: Jean Wyenberg at jeanwye@shaw.ca  Look forward to seeing you there!