"MUST SEE!"
-Pioneer Press

Joshua and Shanan bring their hit comedy to the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater just in time for Valentine's Day!

From Here to Maternity peeks into the bedroom of an average married couple for a funny but frank look at pregnancy, birth and, yes, romance. Discover the answers to questions polite society refuses to answer. Does life end at conception? How much work is pregnant sex? Who would win in a fight - your doctor or your midwife? What happens when Curious George goes to Daycare? Whether you have kids or not, this evening of sketches, songs and at least one interpretive dance is sure to make you laugh.

From Here to Maternity was one of the top ten selling shows of the 2007 Minnesota Fringe, earning a "MUST SEE" from The Pioneer Press and scores of enthusiastic audience reviews:

"We lauged until we cried!"
"Sincere, honest and funny."
"A great mix of clever dialogue, sight gags, dance and music."
"There's something in this show for everyone!"

This Valentine's Edition of From Here to Maternity features an expanded script, including all new scenes and sketches.
SEE IT AGAIN!

SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS
FEBRUARY 13th - 21st - 7pm
Bryant Lake Bowl Theater
810 West Lake St. in Mpls.
Tickets - $14 General
$12 with a Fringe Festival Button
Buy Tickets online at Brown Paper Tickets
Or call the BLB at 612-825-8949

Visit our cafe press store for amusing From Here to Maternity merchandise, including this empowering maternity shirt.

Predictably, you can visit us on Facebook. Unfortunately we are far too old and verbose to be followed on Twitter.

PRAISE for the TEAM of
ENGLISH SCRIMSHAW & CUSTER:
"Clever and inventive voices in comic theater"
-Star Tribune
"As a duo, they are intellectually and comedically agile"
-Pioneer Press
"Kinetic, very funny, physically gifted performers"
-Mpls.St.Paul Magazine

JOSHUA ENGLISH SCRIMSHAW is a Minneapolis based actor, writer and producer. His Fringe collaborations have garnered critical praise including the dance and silent comedy Shut Your Joke Hole, named by City Pages as one of the top ten theater productions of 2002 and this year's #1 Fringe Festival show, The Harty Boys in The Case of the Limping Platypus. In addition to writing and producing, Joshua has performed with a wide variety of local theater companies including Bedlam Theater, John Munger's Third Rabbit Dance Ensemble, Actor's Theater of Minnesota, Off Leash Area, Theater in the Round and Lili's Burlesque Revue. A frequent collaborator with Hardcover Theater, Joshua was featured in the hit Victorian serial London After Midnight and co-wrote and performed in Johnny Bocca's Sex Farce for Swingin' Lovers, an adaptation of the saucy Medieval classic, The Decameron. Next year Joshua will reunite with Hardcover for an adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's celebrated comedy novel, Right Ho, Jeeves.

SHANAN CUSTER is a veteran of the Brave New Workshop, where she wrote and performed in 14 sketch comedy revues, the more recent of which, Das Bootylicious, was named a Top Critics Choice for Best New Play 2004 by The Star Tribune. 2 Sugars, Room for Cream, a production she wrote with Carolyn Pool, was one of the top ten best-selling shows at the 2009 Minnesota Fringe Festival. Shanan has both written and performed in Actors Theater of Minnesota's We Gotta Bingo and Tony n' Timothy's Wedding as well as directed the runaway hit Deer Camp: The Musical! Look for Shanan in St. Paul next spring in Dead Man's Cell Phone at the Park Square Theater.