Event

Swimming in the Shallows

As Michael Dale wrote in his 2005 review of Swimming in the Shallows, "Sometimes a dude making out with a shark is a symbol of man's continual desire for that which he can never obtain. And sometimes it's just a dude making out with a shark."

In the wacky and hilarious universe of Adam Bock's play about a close knit group of friends all facing the need for change in their lives, a man falling in love with a mako shark is normal. What's not so normal is Barb's sudden compulsion to empty her life of all but eight things. Her husband Bob, who doesn't get it, senses he might not be among them. And Carla Carla is ambivalent about marrying Donna, who can't seem to stop smoking. This queer-surrealist world, set in a seaside town called Twig, Road Island, includes yard sales, dream sequences, a lesbian wedding, and a sexy dance and other encounters between a promiscuous but lonely gay man and the sharp-toothed object of his latest infatuation, Isurus Oxyrinchus. Join Iron Crow for the Baltimore premiere of this funny, fantastical and touching play about love, fear, sacrifice, and friendship, and consider the possibility that the shallows might just be where it's all happening.