PO Box 517
Woodstock, NY 12498
845-679-7900
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Performing Arts of Woodstock PO Box 517 Woodstock, NY 12498 845-679-7900 |
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Performing Arts of Woodstock is Proud to Present
Performing Arts of Woodstock is pleased to welcome back director Sharon Breslau (Great Falls, Naked and Flailing)
in David Lindsay-Abaire's play, "Kimberly Akimbo". PAW has produced several of Mr. Lindsay-Abaire's
plays, including "Fuddy Meers", "Wonder of the World", and "Rabbit Hole".
Set in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, KIMBERLY AKIMBO is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition
causing her body to age faster than it should. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly
is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt,
her own mortality and, most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love.
"The Comedy of the Year. A haunting and hilarious new play. Mr. Lindsay-Abaire is an expert at tweaking, skewing and finally inverting established formulas. His plays tend to slide right out of predetermined pigeonholes. KIMBERLY AKIMBO is at once a shrewd satire, a black comedy and a heartbreaking study of how time wounds everyone." "A zany, disturbing and strangely affecting comedy. It's a bit of youthful happiness unlike any other." "I was bowled over by the singular theatricality of David Lindsay-Abaire's KIMBERLY AKIMBO. The way this harrowing and hilarious work continuously shifts from satire to black comedy to realism could never work anywhere else. Theatre at its most original." "A wacky, touching and totally charming dark comedy that gives a whole new meaning to 'coming of age story.'" "A breezy, foulmouthed, fleet-footed, warmhearted comedy. There have been many dark comedies about dysfunctional families, but this is one of the funniest." |
