
Roberta is promptly replaced with her nearly identical sister of the same name, though further rejections due to her being too pretty lead to increasingly nonsensical arguments until the two are promptly married and left to each other’s devices. Jack is presented with his prospective bride-to-be, Roberta (Veronica Howe), but rejects her for only having two noses when he desires a wife with three, prompting a spat between the two families. This potato-based conflict is somehow resolved though, just in time for a new issue to arise as Jack’s parents decide it is time to marry him off.
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After silently enduring a series of increasingly baffling pleas and lectures from his family, Jack finally stands up for himself and addresses the heart of the matter and the cause for all of the drama much to his family’s despair, he does not like hash-brown potatoes. ‘Jack, or the Submission’ tells the story of a young man, Jack (Lucas Tapley), who is at conflict with his family, having rejected their values and broken their hearts.

Focusing on the surreal, the inexplicable, and the outrageous, director Len Falkenstein selected two of Ionesco’s early works, ‘Jack, or the Submission‘ and ‘The Bald Soprano,’ with the stated intent of challenging the actors’ skills and encouraging growth.

Theatre UNB is concluding the semester for their Drama 2173 class with ‘Cats, Cockatoos, and Caca,’ a double-feature of plays by Eugene Ionesco, the Romanian-French playwright best known for his pioneering work in the genre of the Theatre of the Absurd.
