Gemma Wilcox Productions Presents

a Colorado Premiere:

52 PICK UP

by TJ Dawe and Rita Bozi

Directed by Elizabeth Baron and Performed by Gemma Wilcox & Sam Elmore

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

WARNINGS: Adult language

DURATION: 75 min.

VENUE: Dairy Center for the Arts, East Theater

TICKETS: $15/13

SCHEDULE:

Sat Aug 16 - 8:00 PM | Sun Aug 17 - 1:30 PM | Wed Aug 20 - 6:30 PM | Fri Aug 22 - 7:30 PM Sat Aug 23 - 4:30 PM | Sun Aug 24 - 3:30 PM

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

Artistic Bios

Performed and Produced by

Gemma Wilcox ( as “Woman”)

Gemma Wilcox (7 times Best of Fest winner) trained at the University of Leeds, UK, specializing in multiple role-playing and physical theatre and was awarded a 1st class B.A. honors degree in Theatre Studies and English Literature in 2001.  
In the UK her acting credits include: Sweetie Pie by Bolton Octagon Theatre (The Studio Theatre, London), Fear and Misery In the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht (The Studio Theatre, London), Lucy by Tiggy Allen (The Banham Theatre, Leeds).  She directed Miss in Her Teens by David Garrick (Workshop Theatre, Leeds) and Blue by Emma Keele (Workshop Theatre, Leeds), and she devised, wrote, directed, and performed in The Sight of Your Face is a Blessing: A spontaneous performance (The Banham Theatre, Leeds). 
Gemma spent two years in Austin, Texas and received two 'Best of the Fest' awards at the Austin Frontera Festival (2003 & 2004) for her one woman shows Menage a Dix and The Honeymoon is Officially Over and a B. Iden Payne nomination for 'Most Outstanding Featured Actress in a Drama' for her performance in Iron Belly Muses' Curiosity. She was a proud member of the Austin Shakespeare Festival Company for 2 years, appearing in the Company's production of Twelfth Night, a reading of Cymbeline, and assistant directing and appearing in Will Power: The Course of Love. 
Gemma received "Pick of the Fringe" at the Boulder International Fringe Festival for Honeymoon Period is Officially Over (2005) and Shadows in Bloom (2006). She was also awarded “Best Solo Performer” & “Best in Venue” at Ottawa Fringe (2007) and “Best in Fest” at Winnipeg Fringe (2007). Gemma co-directed A Bolder Cabaret by the Society of Creative Aging with David Ortolano, and directed Sandy Hale in her one woman show A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Old Age. Gemma just toured Orlando, Ottawa, Toronto and Winnipeg Fringe this Summer with a brand new version of her one woman show, Shadows in Bloom, which was a huge success and immensely fun and inspiring! Gemma is very excited to be performing on stage with another person after 5 years of flying solo!!!

Performed by

Sam Elmore (as “Man”)

Sam Elmore moved to Boulder CO in 2003 to pursue a Masters degree in Somatic Psychology at Naropa University. He has been involved in all aspects of theatre and is a seasoned director, producer, choreographer and performer. Sam’s primary passion lies in the creation of original ensemble based physical theatre productions. Most recently Sam created the Common Unity Experiment, a community based performance that had it’s premier at the 2007 Boulder Fringe Festival. Sam’s favorite projects include Tales from Ovid (Helen Hayes nomination for Best Choreography), Lion in the Streets, Hamlet, Street Car Named Desire, The Serpent, and Savage/Love. In Boulder Sam has been seen in the ever-changing Zen Cabaret; the Octopus League’s raucous productions of Priscilla: the musical, and The Portrait; and he also makes an annual appearance at the Somatic Arts Concert at Naropa University. Sam currently runs the Alumni Program at Naropa…he also runs with his dog…he likes the song running to stand still…

Directed by Elizabeth Baron

Elizabeth Baron has been creating and performing theater for 8/9^th’s of her life and teaching for 10 years. She holds an MFA in Actor-Created Physical Theater/ Lecoq from Naropa University/ London International School of the Performing Arts (LISPA,) and a BA from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music. Elizabeth acted professionally in NYC, performing in Off-Broadway and Regional Theater productions, before leaving the bright lights of the city for Boulder’s Rocky Peaks. She now works in collaboration with various theater companies and universities, locally and internationally.

Her 2007 and 2008 local projects include: Theater – Convergence Theater Collective’s Inanna, Jeremy Williams & Ross Pasquale’s Nina Lacuna, Shana Cordon’s Lull, and The Octopus League’s Priscilla: A Rock and Roll Ride Through Teenage Hell. Film – Jackson Ward’s Goodbye Aleister, Phil Van Scotter’s Busker’s Bounty. Currently, she is lucky enough to be collaborating on myriad projects in many different capacities: as co-creator, director, actor, musician, ‘outside eye,’ teacher, etc. And this makes her very happy.

As part of the Boulder Fringe, Elizabeth is teaching a weekend intensive workshop: Sublime Stupidity – An Introduction to Red Nose (yours, that is.) She has been studying and performing Red Nose since 2003, and she is pedagogic assistant to Giovanni Fusetti, world-renowned teacher of Mask and Clown. (Workshop dates: Aug 22 – 24^th. For more info, email nita@boulderfringe.com.) Look for her one-woman red nose show, part of the Giovanni Fusetti’s Fall of Clowns series, this October!

Available for Interviews, Photos, and Questions:

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