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A Drunk, A Virgin and a
Ho
Facing Life Stuck in the Slow
Lane
in John Patrick Shanley's Edgy
Comedy, Savage in
Limbo
Beginning February 11th at The
Drilling Company Theatre
Three Bronx women, with nowhere else to go, end up in a bar
taking stock of their lives in John Patrick Shanley's comedy Savage in Limbo. This passionate and
touching tale of lost souls dealing with both hope and hopelessness is presented
by Rosalind Productions, Inc. & The Platform Group at The Drilling Company
Theatre, located at 236 West 78th
Street.
Directed by Brian Tom O'Connor, the play is being produced in association with
The Drilling Company. Please note: the show is not open for review, but
press coverage and listings are welcome.
One quiet Monday night, three
neighborhood friends, and former grade school classmates, find themselves in a
local drinking establishment. There's Denise, a frustrated, 32-year-old virgin
who's temporarily fled the home where she lives with her mother; April, an
emotionally burned-out soul who drinks because she has nothing else; and Linda,
a foxy lady with an easy reputation who has just been dumped by her boyfriend,
Tony, a typical Italian stud, who now wants to date someone uglier because he
thinks it will help him break out of his routine. As the women complain about
their situations, under the watchful eye of bartender Murk--a fervent believer
of all things status quo--they
begin to hatch a plan whereby they can finally begin living their lives, instead
of just existing in them. But it’s not long before the women's deeper needs for
love and security begin to emerge, threatening to alter forever the life changes
they are all desperately trying to achieve.
The cast of Savage in Limbo features Kendall
Rileigh*, Abigail Rose Solomon*, Fabio Taliercio*, Shara Ashley Zeiger and
Maxwell Zener*. The production team includes Andrew Lu (set designer), Isabella
F. Byrd (lighting designer), and Marcie A. Friedman* (production stage manager).
The production is an Equity Showcase.
Among John
Shanley's plays are Danny and the
Deep Blue Sea, Italian American Reconciliation, The Dreamer Examines his Pillow,
Sailor's Song (Drama Desk Nomination) Savage in Limbo, Four Dogs and a Bone,
Beggars in the House of Plenty, Psychopathia Sexualis, Cellini, Where's My
Money?, Dirty Story, Doubt (Tony and Drama Desk Award for Best Play,
Pulitzer Prize for Drama), and Defiance. As a screenwriter, he received
an Academy Award for Moonstruck and
an Emmy nomination for the HBO film Live
from Baghdad. He was born in the Bronx.
Brian
Tom O’Connor recently directed
the New
York premiere
of Reggie Cheong-Leen's The Nanjing
Race (Abingdon Theatre Company), and the world premieres of Skeleton at the Feast by Jim Beggarly
(One Dream Theatre), Robert Cessna's David and Arthur, Arthur and David at
42nd
Street
Workshop and Demolition by Ben Sahl
(Columbia Dramatists). Other New York productions include Trios and Final Vows by Robert Cessna,
Taking Liberties by Dave Carley, Women of Manhattan and Welcome to the Moon by John Patrick
Shanley, and Sari Body's Hide the
Bride. He also directed the first staged reading of Samuel Beckett’s Eleutheria at the National Arts Club.
Opera credits include The
Magic Flute, The Impresario, and La Serva Padrona for the Bronx Opera
Company.
Founded in 2005, Rosalind Productions Inc. explores
stories in which the female characters are as vital, complex and influential as
the male characters. RP was an associate producer of The Miracle Worker on Broadway. In
Los
Angeles, RP produced Misalliance, Proof, As You Like It, and
the new play, Stages, which garnered
a NAACP Theatre Award nomination. For more info go to www.RosalindProductions.com.
The
Platform Group is a
New York
City
production company formed in early 2010. Platform’s mission is to create work that challenges, inspires and provides a
place to stand on.
The
Platform Group on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ThePlatformGroup
The
Platform Group on Twitter: www.twitter.com/platformgroup
.
Running from February
11th through March 5th, Savage in Limbo will be performed at
The Drilling Company Theatre, located at 236 West 78th
Street (between Broadway
and Amsterdam Avenues) on the third floor. (The theatre is not wheelchair
accessible.) Show times are Thursday-Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at
3pm. There are
additional performances on Monday, February 28th at 8pm and Wednesday, March
2nd at 8pm. Running time is 75 minutes (no
intermission). All tickets are $18.00.
Reservations: 212-868-4444 or
www.rosalindproductions.com
Information for Listing Editors
WHAT:
Savage in Limbo
By John
Patrick Shanley
Directed
by Brian Tom O'Connor
Set Designer: Andrew
Lu
Lighting Designer: Isabella F.
Byrd
Production Stage Manager: Marcie A.
Friedman*
Featuring: Kendall Rileigh*, Abigail
Rose Solomon*, Fabio Taliercio*, Shara Ashley Zeiger and Maxwell
Zener*.
An Equity
Showcase.
Synopsis:
In John Patrick Shanley’s touching and edgy
comedy, three former grade school classmates find themselves at a run-down
Bronx bar presided over by a bartender who habitually
waters his dead plants. As they try to figure out how to change their mostly
empty lives, circumstances (and each other) conspire to keep them exactly where
they are. A funny and penetrating story where everything and nothing happens,
where "alone" can be the cruelest or most freeing word of all.
WHERE:
The Drilling Company
Theatre
236 West 78th
Street (between Broadway
and Amsterdam
Avenues)
Third
floor
(Please
note: the theatre is not wheelchair accessible)
WHEN:
February
11th - March 5th
Thursday-Saturday at
8pm
Sunday at
3pm.
Additional performances:
Monday, February 28th
at 8pm.
Wednesday, March 2nd
at 8pm
RUNNING
TIME:
75 Minutes (no intermission)
TICKETS:
$18.00
RESERVATIONS: 212-868-4444 or
www.rosalindproductions.com
SUBWAY INFO:
Take 1 train to
79th
Street or
the C or B train to 81st Street
The production is not open for
review, but press coverage and listings are
welcome.
* - member of Actors'
Equity
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