"Fuddy Meers" by David Lindsay-Abaire Directed by Beth Lopes
November 2,3,4,5,9,10,11 at 8pm & November 4,5,11,12 at 2pm
The Gene Frankel Theatre, Downstairs at 24 Bond Street (bet Bowery and Lafayette) Tickets: 415-531-7077 $15 General, $10 Student
Featuring: Ali Baynes, Gregory Kostel*, Mary Quick, Steve Stout, Jake Thomas, Paula Vingelen, and Gillian Wiggin
Producer: Paula Vingelen Costume Design: Katja Andreiev Set/Lighting: Ian Crawford Sound Design: Fred Nicolaus Postcard Design: Dakotah West
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Fuddy Meers Story Synopsis:
Claire (Paula Vingelen) has a rare form of pyschogenic amnesia that erases her memory whenever she goes to sleep. This morning, like all mornings, she wakes up a blank slate. Her chipper husband (Gregory Kostel) comes in with a cup of coffee, explains her condition, hands her a book with all sorts of essential information, and he disappears into the shower. A limping, lisping, half-blind, half-deaf man in a ski mask (Jake Thomas), 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 (Ali Baynes), 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 hand puppet pops up at a window (Steve Stout), and her driven husband and perpetually stoned daughter (Mary Quick) show up with a claustrophobic lady-cop that they've kidnapped (Gillian Wiggin). Every twist and turn in this fun-house plot brings 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 throughout the day of an amnesiac trying to decipher her fractured life. This poignant and brutal comedy traces one woman's attempt to regain her memory while surrounded by a curio-cabinet of alarmingly bizarre characters.
