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According to Mike Dugan, author/actor/comic and Emmy winning television writer, “It was never about finding the right woman. It was about becoming the right man.”
That's the tag line for Dugan's one-man show, “Men Fake Foreplay,” taking the stage this weekend at the Auburn Public Theater. The play is a detailed and considered examination of relationships, with occasional side trips into observational humor, like being raised in a large family (“My parents would ground my oldest brother for being 10 minutes late for dinner. By the time I came along it was pretty much ‘No heroin in the living room.'”)
The reviews, both for his performance and his writing, have been universally positive.
Dugan, a native of New Jersey, cut his comic teeth in the mid 1980s performing at New York's Catch A Rising Star with the likes of Jon Stewart and Chris Rock. He went on to open for Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry and Harry Belafonte and won the prestigious San Francisco International Stand-Up Comic Competition in 1988. He appeared on the “Tonight Show” with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, and won an Emmy for his work on Dennis Miller's HBO series.
In “Men Fake Foreplay,” Dugan takes an unflinching look at men's experiences with trust, responsibility, intimacy, commitment, masculinity and role models - all the flotsam and jetsam integral to relationships with women. He reveals devastatingly accurate secrets about the male thought process that some men might be happier were kept under wraps.
And he manages to make us laugh while doing so. Publisher's Weekly said of him, “A comic on stage and a moralist at heart, Dugan wants to help men ‘to somehow reconcile a naturally unwieldy sex drive with a sense of responsibility to those we love.' The result is an enjoyable effort that harks back to the Golden Rule.”
Dugan has parlayed the success of the show into a book of the same title and About.com ranks it second among books for men. Copies will be available at the performances.
If you go
What: Mike Dugan's “Men Fake Foreplay”
When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday
Where: Auburn Public Theater, 108 Genesee St., Auburn
Admission: $15, call 253-6669
That's the tag line for Dugan's one-man show, “Men Fake Foreplay,” taking the stage this weekend at the Auburn Public Theater. The play is a detailed and considered examination of relationships, with occasional side trips into observational humor, like being raised in a large family (“My parents would ground my oldest brother for being 10 minutes late for dinner. By the time I came along it was pretty much ‘No heroin in the living room.'”)
The reviews, both for his performance and his writing, have been universally positive.
Dugan, a native of New Jersey, cut his comic teeth in the mid 1980s performing at New York's Catch A Rising Star with the likes of Jon Stewart and Chris Rock. He went on to open for Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry and Harry Belafonte and won the prestigious San Francisco International Stand-Up Comic Competition in 1988. He appeared on the “Tonight Show” with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, and won an Emmy for his work on Dennis Miller's HBO series.
In “Men Fake Foreplay,” Dugan takes an unflinching look at men's experiences with trust, responsibility, intimacy, commitment, masculinity and role models - all the flotsam and jetsam integral to relationships with women. He reveals devastatingly accurate secrets about the male thought process that some men might be happier were kept under wraps.
And he manages to make us laugh while doing so. Publisher's Weekly said of him, “A comic on stage and a moralist at heart, Dugan wants to help men ‘to somehow reconcile a naturally unwieldy sex drive with a sense of responsibility to those we love.' The result is an enjoyable effort that harks back to the Golden Rule.”
Dugan has parlayed the success of the show into a book of the same title and About.com ranks it second among books for men. Copies will be available at the performances.
If you go
What: Mike Dugan's “Men Fake Foreplay”
When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday
Where: Auburn Public Theater, 108 Genesee St., Auburn
Admission: $15, call 253-6669
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