You Got Engaged?!, Aardvark, at the Performance Loft. Having recently gotten engaged, I looked forward to this “farcical fairy tale.” In his program note, playwright Vincent Bruckert rhapsodizes about his own engagement, claiming that he’d “never spent such joyful time with friends or learned more valuable lessons from family.” Somehow, these feelings and lessons never made it onto the page. Instead we get 75 minutes of hard-core slapstick and the dramatic depth of “Valley Girl 2.” When Henry (Craig Bryant) proposes to his live-in girlfriend, Mary Virginia (Alexandra Billings), she responds with a resounding “Fuck, no!” and throws the ring box across the room. While Mary is explaining to big-haired best friend Margie (Bridget Dehl) that she can’t commit to marriage when there might be a hot stud in her future, they discover the ring is missing! This leads to cover-up schemes and the arrival of Mary’s estranged mother (Katrina Kelley), who manages to make everything all right.
