Performing Arts of Woodstock is Proud to Present
CAST & CREW
- Mark Bailey as Limping Man
- Sharon Breslau as Heidi
- Adele Calcavecchio as Gertie
- Gina Kraut as Claire
- Ron Morehead as Richard
- Corbin Neuhauser as Kenny
- Gregor Trieste as Millet
- and "Hinky Binky" as himself
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| Director: | Joey Hoeber |
| Production Manager: | Edie LeFever |
| Business Manager: | Ann Washington |
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| Stage Manager: | Kristina Hauptfuehrer |
| Set Design & Construction: | Evelyn Meier, Rhoda Seldes, Nancy Bekaert |
| Costumes: | Marcia Panza / Jean Fitzpatrick |
| Lighting Design | Kurt Pragman |
| Sound Design & Direction: | Jonathan Delson |
| Props: | Rhoda Seldes |
| Makeup: | Barbara Roefs |
| Lighting Board | Richard Ralff |
| Sound Board: | Jonathan Delson |
| Interns: | Sage, Cassiopeia Ottulich, Kika Hoeber |
| Web Master: | Jonathan Delson Associates |
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Synopsis
Claire has a rare form of psychogenic amnesia that erases her memory whenever she goes to sleep.
This morning, like all mornings, she wakes up a blank slate. Her chipper husband comes in with a cup of coffee, explains
her condition, hands her a book filled with all sorts of essential information, and he disappears into the shower. A limping, lisping,
half-blind, half-deaf man in a ski mask, pops out from under her bed and claims to be her brother, there to save her.
Claire's info book is quickly discarded, and she's hustled off to the country-house of her mother, a recent stroke victim whose speech
has been reduced to utter gibberish. Claire's journey gets even more complicated when a dimwitted thug with a foul-mouthed hand
puppet pops up at a window, and her driven husband and perpetually stoned son show up with a claustrophobic lady-cop that they've
kidnapped. Every twist and turn in this funhouse plot bring Claire closer to revealing her past life and everything she thought she'd
forgotten. It's one harrowing and hilarious turn after another on this roller coaster ride through the day of an amnesiac trying to decipher
her fractured life. This poignant and brutal new comedy traces one woman's attempt to regain her memory while surrounded by a
curio-cabinet of alarmingly bizarre characters.
...given the fine acting under the direction of Joey Hoeber, the show is worth seeing.
—The Times Herald Record
One of PAW's Best
—Woodstock Times
…heady fun…fresh, zingy dialogue, which revels in warping the language of self-help books… Like the resourceful chef who turns leftovers
into haute cuisine, Mr. Lindsay-Abaire blends clichéd ingredients into something savory and distinctive…
[a] dark, sweet and thoroughly engaging comedy.
—NY Times.
…an antically zany new play…
—Variety.
…wicked fun…the evening explodes with laughter.
—NY Magazine
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