Review: Treatment

Treatment, a new comedy from the B Street Theatre, is about a journey through life’s rough terrain, with its attendant heartache and loss, all made bearable by love and friendship.

Conceived, written and acted by Stephanie Altholz, Amy Kelly and Tara Sissom, the story shows that you don’t have to lose your mind to lose your way, but often it takes a little help from others to get out of the woods and back on track.

Treatment takes place on a girls camping trip, as longtime friends Jayne, Patricia and Roxanne (Sissom, Kelly and Altholz, respectively) have come together to catch up on each other’s lives—and to scatter Jayne’s mother’s ashes. Before that solemn event can take place, however, the threesome fills a potty bucket, empties a few whiskey bottles, trades some “camping contraband” for food and bonds like never before.

Treatment is funny—very funny, sometimes almost-wet-your-pants funny.