CAST: 3M, 4W (with doubling)
RUN TIME: 1hr 30 min
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS: Minimal
POP CULTURE REFERENCES: Maximum
SYNOPSIS:
When an online dating service connects Tamela, a guileless 37 year old virgin looking for love, with Dr. Gorn, an evil scientist with ambitions of world domination. Things don't go according to Dr. Gorn's dastardly plan when Tamela falls instantly in love with his henchman, Blork, a simple, misshapen, noodle-armed creation. When Tamela takes Blork home to Mother, Blork is quickly sent away on what ultimately becomes a journey of self-discovery. The play follows Blork on his trek, with Tamela hot on his trail as they come across a coterie of eccentric individuals. HELLO HUMAN FEMALE is an odd and whimsical tale with the message that being full of love, kindness and understanding can make up for pretty much all of our apparent shortcomings.
AWARDS:
Best New Play - DFW Theatre Critics Forum, 2009
Top 10 of 2009 - The Dallas Voice
Top 10 of 2009 - The Dallas Observer
PRESS:
“Matt Lyle has reinvented romantic comedy for the 21st century…”
Lawson Taitte – Dallas Morning News“All I know is, I laughed out loud. A lot.”
Arnold Wayne Jones – Dallas Voice“It's somehow poignant, even in the midst of the kind of wonderfully silly comedy that can be traced from the Marx Brothers to Mel Brooks to the Zucker Brothers and beyond.”
Mark Lowry – TheatreJones.com“Wildly Funny”; “We definitely want more plays by Matt Lyle.”
Elaine Liner – Dallas Observer