Love Child at NC Stage Company

It's opening night, and tensions are running high as writer/director Joel tries to keep his company of actors under control, his sanity intact, and his mom from answering her cell phone in the front row.

Two actors play an enormous cast of characters in this comedy, including the actors on stage, the crew behind the scenes, and the audience watching them perform.

Love Child is also the name of the play-within-a-play in this comedy full of backstage shenanigans and on-stage hysterics. Writer/director Joel has pinned all of his professional hopes on his new English adaptation of the Greek tragedy Ion.

Love Child premiered Off Broadway in 2008, created by and starring Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton, two well-known comedic actors. The New York Times called it "a delicious romp keep-up-if-you-can fun," and it got so much buzz that it returned to Off Broadway a year later for an additional run.

Charlie Flynn-McIver and Bill Muñoz play an enormous cast of characters in this comedy, including the actors on stage, the crew behind the scenes, and the audience watching them perform. The delight is in watching their hilarious, breathless character changes, done without benefit of costumes or wigs.

Director Neela Muñoz has frequently collaborated with both actors, including directing Bill Mambo Mouth by John Leguizamo and directing Charlie in last season's smash hit comedy Boeing-Boeing. (She collaborates with Bill Muñoz in their real life as well, since the couple has been married for over a decade!)