Need to get rid of baggage before heading out to your meeting with Happiness? Make sure to check out: The Devil Takes A Wife, starring Anita Finlay, directed by Ovation Award Winner Dave Galligan happening at Le Studio in Santa Monica from April 12 thru May 31.

Long one-man or one-woman shows can be hell both for the audience and for the performer. Taxing, nearly impossible tasks: the actor tries, stretches, yells and ponders and ultimately, he gives up. There’s too much static energy to move for just one soul acting up. Almost no dialogue can carry a crowd for an hour no matter how good the act.

Exceptions of course, occur. And here is where you know the performer or actor, and the director behind, are close to the sphere of art.

That’s exactly the case with Anita Finlay’s rollercoaster The Devil takes a Wife… she carries the crowd in a fist and then: baaam, smashes it against the hard floor and then just laughs.

The audience understands they’re up for a ride. And they give in… and they laugh and they laugh and they laugh. There’s no other route other than comedy when tragedy is so close or so nearby. And being married to the devil is nothing short of tragic. Actually, it could be either tragic or comic, it depends who you ask.

Dave Galligan, the director masterminding the pace of the piece, deserves untold credits for maneuvering the dense spots typical of one actor productions. Also Anita’s immense powers of recall: sentences, accents and characters, in rapid-fire mode, flash out of her mouth, believable, understandable, likable. She’s the devil, she’s herself at 4, she’s her mother and everyone’s best girlfriend, and no one’s.

You would think marrying the devil would be somehow funny but for the devil’s ex-wife for example, it isn’t comic at all if one is to judge by her brow and her overall act.

She realizes selling her soul to the devil in exchange for the life of her fiancé is, in the overall deal, the easy part. Now, confronting her own fears is truly the main issue at hand. And honestly, who wants that?

If you think your life’s been hell as of late, make sure to stop by and check The Devil Takes A Wife. When you witness Anita’s rollercoaster, you’ll feel at peace with the world, in harmony, in fact, you may just hear the voice of God. So screwed up are other people’s lives…

The Devil Takes A Wife is playing for a limited time at Le Studio, 3025 W. Olympic Blvd, Santa Monica, CA from April 12^th thru May 31^st. Tickets are $22 and can be ordered online at www.gaulthierartists.com. Via PAYPAL.

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