{"id":6370,"date":"2021-10-09T17:32:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T00:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2024-07-20T16:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T23:02:30","slug":"six-palm-trees-laughter-poignancy-hundreds-of-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/six-palm-trees-laughter-poignancy-hundreds-of-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Palm Trees: laughter & poignancy, hundreds of times"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

In this week’s podcast I’m sharing\u00a0a little bit of\u00a0Six Palm Trees<\/strong><\/em>, a beloved one person stand-up comedy\/drama I wrote with\u00a0Gord Halloran when we were young parents and creatives living in a semi-detached heritage home near Bloor St. in Toronto.<\/p>\n

Six Palm Trees<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0features Annie Shea, Number 6 in a Catholic family of fourteen children, living in Pasadena, California in the Sixties. The play began as a stand-up comedy routine.<\/p>\n

It has been performed hundreds of times to excellent reviews and standing ovations in the Eighties and Nineties on tour throughout California, British Columbia and in Oshawa, Seattle, Edmonton, Toronto, San Francisco and other cities and towns.<\/p>\n

Funny and sad, powerful and whimsical, with mercurial mood changes and punchy humour. . .\u00a0Six Palm Trees\u00a0<\/strong>is more than a trip down memory lane . . it is a play (about) the price one woman paid to bear and raise 14 children. . . jewel of a play.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>-The Sooke Standard, Vancouver Island, B.C.\u00a0”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n