This Relationship is in The Cards…Literally!!!

52 cards in a deck. 52 scenes about a couple's relationship. The title of each scene is written on a card. At the start of the show the deck is shuffled and tossed in the air. The actors pick up the cards one at a time, which determines the playing order of the scenes. The story: very simple. They meet, the fall in love, they fall out of love, they break up. But with this concept you might see them break up before they meet. You might see the reiteration of jokes that haven't happened yet, or apologies for arguments that haven't happened yet.

Never the Same Show Twice!

Well as good as never! The odds of two performances of 52 Pick Up ever having the scenes in the same order are 1 in 80 658 175 170 943 878 571 660 636 856 403 766 975 289 505 440 883 277 824 000 00 000 000. More or less. Although this number is outrageously big, it is real. The formula for finding the maximum number of variations in a deck of 52 cards is 52 x 51 x 50 x 49 x 48 x 47... all the way down to x 3 x 2 x 1. the scientific notation for it is "52!". As a point of interest, the odds of getting all six numbers right and thereby winning the Lotto 6/49 are 1 in 10 068 347 520.

How will the cards fall when you see the show?

RATING:

PG-13
DURATION: 75 min.

ADVANCE TICKETS: $10 @ http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/160282
OR HALF AN HOUR BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE BEGINS @ THE DOOR! @ http://roguefestival.com/rogue2011/?p=196

VENUE: ROGUE FEST BYOV: California Arts Academy SEVERANCE -1401 N Wishon, Fresno, CA

SHOW TIMES:
Sat, March 5 @ 2:30pm
Sat, March 5 @ 10:00pm
Tues, March 8 @ 8:30pm
Wed, March 9 @ 8:30pm
Fri, March 11 @ 7:00pm
Sat, March 12 @ 5:30pm

Media Contact: Gemma Wilcox, 720-212-5001, gemma@gemmawilcox.com, www.gemmwilcox.com

PRESS REVIEWS FOR 52 PICK UP

AWARDED BEST-OF-FEST & SELL OUT HIT SHOW AT BOULDER INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL 2008

“This is provocative, eerily personal theatre [...], achingly (or hilariously) familiar.”
- Melissa Martin, Winnipeg Free Press

“Slick, well-paced, and completely fun to watch."
-CBC Winnipeg

"52 Pick Up" requires ferocious and fully committed performances, and that's what Gemma Wilcox and Sam Elmore have honed...These two are confident and comfortable together. Between scenes they circle each other like animals in heat, then dive in to whatever scene comes up with abandon and total trust. It all makes for a quick evening that's at times funny, passionate and sad, but at all times honest..."
- John Moore, Denver Post
(See: http://www.denverpost.com/theater/ci_12310265)

“If you can only go to one show this festival, 52 Pick Up would be a good choice…A romantic relationship that is complex, funny, infuriating, passionate, Mars vs. Venus typical, funny (oh, did I already say funny?, well, it’s very funny), and frighteningly familiar…Wilcox and Elmore pull off this amazing feat of acting with extraordinary subtlety. Each scene is compelling and I was moved in every direction…This show is clearly the work of experts.”
- Leslie Palleson, Plank (Vancouver 2010)
(See: http://www.plankmagazine.com/review/52-pick-work-experts)

“52 Pick Up is an example of some of the best of what the Fringe has to offer: clever and witty, it nonethless hinges on strong acting…The real strength of this piece is the performers' one-hundred percent commitment to the physicality of their scenes…It is the subtle facial expressions, body language, and the impeccable comic timing of Elmore and Wilcox that actually imbue the scenes with emotional content…Genuine conflict and specific details are delivered with ironic humour and tenderness…The script is intelligently written.”
- Kirstie McCallum, Plank (Vancouver 2010)
(see: http://www.plankmagazine.com/review/52-pick-house-cards)

"52 Pick Up is a enlightening and fun take on the vicissitudes of love."
- Bob Bows, Colorado Drama
(See: http://www.coloradodrama.com/52_pick_up.html)

"Wilcox and Elmore bring subtlety and ingenuity to the scenes…They make an intriguing game of the card pick-up, moving through it in a dance-like, synchronized way, watching each other intently, silently teasing and challenging…Elmore has a ruffle-haired charm and a good sense of humor, but most of the evening's piquancy is provided by Wilcox, who intrigues you through combinations of opposites: the contradiction between the dancer's hardness of her torso and the soft roundedness of her moves, for instance, and the fact that her emotions well up with such spontaneity but are expressed with a mime's skilled professionalism”
- Juliet Wittman, Denver Westword
(See: http://www.westword.com/2009-01-22/culture/give-gemma-wilcox-a-hand-for-52-pick-up/)

"Ingenious...fun and interesting...Elmore and Wilcox have the chops...this show is crisp"
- Mark Collins, Daily Camera
(See: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jan/22/theater-52-pick-up-and-shadows-in-bloom-take-2/)

One of the "10 Plays to Watch" choices in The Denver Post's Winter Arts Preview!
-John Moore, Denver Post

SEE Denver Post Podcast, “Running Lines with 52 Pick Up” – a 10 MIN Interview with cast of 52 Pick Up at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeTDPOB8i34

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