Hunter College Thesis – Day 392

DAY 392

 

Thursday, January 30th @ 7:30pm

Friday, January 31st @ 7:30pm

Saturday, February 1st @ 2:00pm

 

Hunter College

Frederick Loewe Theatre
68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues  

 

    

 

DAY 392

by Amy E. Witting

 

directed by Alex Correia

 

Featuring:
Paul Eddy

Ryan Jonze

Angela Mourtazalieva   

 

Three lost souls.  A Texas Waffle House.  Can they break free from their own captivity?

 

victor – THE WORKSHOP

Thank you to all who have been following my “other” blog this past year on the chronicles of my thirty third year. It was a journey – and now I’m back on a single mission – to get back to the Wacky World of Witty Witting. To start us off – some information about a Wacky little play I wrote that will be up and running in Upstate Manhattan in just under two weeks. Rehearsals are going well – and I’m a bundle of nerves – which means something is happening! Looking forward to it. Thanks for reading! Amye

directed by Jacob Titus
featuring Jonathan Draxton – Paul Eddy – Jamie Heinlein* Tiffany May McRae – Billy Clark Taylor *
and Nicholas Wuehrmann* as Victor

July 23rd – 9pm
July 26th – 9pm
July 28th – 6pm

The Cabrini Repertory Theater
701 Fort Washington Avenue
20 minutes from Times Square!
A train to 190th Street

Audra, slowly approaching her fortieth birthday, is trapped insider her mind and her apartment with a mouse named Victor. As she succumbs to the comfort of Victor she falls further down a rabbit hole of despair. As Victor continues to eat at Audra’s subconscious, a decision has to be made. Audra must decide to live a life of isolation or embrace the love from the other misfits she meets along the way.

Tickets are $18
Cash at the Door

*Member of the actors equity association, this is an equity approved showcase*

victor – A Free Reading

We’ve put together an amazing cast for tomorrow nights reading!  Seating is limited.  Hope you can make it!  Amy  

  

victor

by Amy E. Witting

 

A Free Reading of Witting’s New Play

Friday, April 19th @ 7:30pm

Friday Night Footlights presents:
victor by Amy E. Witting 

Directed by Jacob Titus

Featuring:
Josh Bywater*
Charlie Gorrilla
Jamie Heinlein*
Tiffany May McRae
Billy Weimer
and
Nicholas Wuehrmann* as Victor

Limited seating. Reading is FREE and starts promptly at 7:30pm.

 

 

Audra is trapped both inside her mind and in her apartment with a mouse named Victor. Audra talks to Victor, Victor talks back. As she falls further down a rabbit hole of despair she leans on her one and only only one, Doris, for salvation. Both women on the brink of their fortieth birthdays, search for their cats to keep their loneliness away. As Victor continues to eat at Audra’s subconscious, a decision has to be made. Audra must choose to either live a life of isolation or embrace the love from the other misfits she meets along the way. As she continues to grow, she discovers the hope of Waiter, the innocence of Chester, and the chance of real love thru Doris and Benji. Audra’s internal battle brings together the most unlikely family and forces demons to finally rest…

The Dramatists Guild

Frederick Loewe Room

1501 Broadway, Suite 710

New York, NY 10036

Friday Night Footlights is a weekly reading series based in New York City hosted by the Dramatists Guild.

 

 

Frigid Festival

36Hours Featuring *Michael Birch and Kerry Fitzgibbons

The blizzard has past but it is still a bit cold and snowy today in Manhattan.  The perfect day to update my neglected website and share about two shows opening in TWO WEEKS down in the East Village.

36Hours is coming back with a reworked script – no major changes – but small important ones.  Rumor has it that rehearsals have been exciting – and the show has a new beat to it.  If you haven’t seen it come check it out.

36HOURS TICKET INFORMATION

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

36HOURS

UNDER ST. MARKS THEATRE

94 St. Marks Place (Between 1st Ave & Avenue A)

2/20 @ 5:30pm

2/22 @ 8:40pm

2/25 @ 7:05pm

2/28 @ 10:15pm

3/3 @ 3:40pm

The play is 55minutes long – and it will keep you on your toes.  Tickets are $10 and only $8 on TDF!

While 36Hours is a Drama with some Witty moments – if you are looking for something to lighten your mood perhaps you would like to check out SISTERS GRIMM: FABLES OF THE STAGE – a collaboration with the amazing BRICKEN SPARACINO.  My short play “Jack and the Giant” will be featured along with Bricken’s hilarious “Pointy the Starfish”.

“A hilarious look behind the curtain. Find out how Jack really met the Giant and what happens between the scenes of a traveling children’s theater troupe.”

Sisters Grimm:  Fables of the Stage

The Kraine Theatre

85 East 4th Street (between Bowery and 2nd Ave)

Feb 22, 5:35PM
Feb 24, 5:15PM
Feb 26, 7:05PM
Mar 02, 2:05PM
Mar 03, 5:15PM

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE!

A Little Post about Two Big Shows

I was honored to be featured on The United Stages website today!  Check it out.  I still have two more finals to conquer before I can start getting focused on these shows – but it will happen soon.  I’m so grateful for all the wonderful collaborators in my life!  This is going to a truly wonderful show!  Woot!  Amye

http://http://www.unitedstages.com/displayProject.php?ID=2367&show=E

Jack and The Giant

I wrote a little play about a skinny man meeting a Giant in an audition room.  The skinny man will be played by a skinny actor named Ben, and the Giant will be played by a tall actor named Derby who will wear a fat suit.  At least in my mind he will.  But perhaps his vocals will be large enough.   I now have to finish the script so my director, the amazing Bricken,  can send it off to an awesome teenage boy who writes rad music.  How lucky am I?

OK.  So mark your calendars for Jack and the Giant!  Information below.

http://www.bricken.org/bricken/Sisters_Grimm.html

Create Me Pegasus – Returns

The Hunter College Theatre club has chosen Create Me Pegasus as one of the plays they are going to showcase in a December production. Should be exciting! I’m grateful for the opportunity. Stay Tuned for more information! Amye

The Untitled Mouse Play

I’ve been working on a new full length play for grad school and it’s weird.  I don’t know what it’s about – or if it sucks – of it it’s brilliant – I’m just thankful that I’m still writing it.  It’s about a mouse, or not.  It features a mouse, or does it?  It’s about the shadows of the mind, or is it?  It’s about black hole of loneliness and how we deal with it.  It’s about living.  It’s about dying. It’s about 120pages – at this moment.  It’s long.  It’s short.  It’s funny.  It’s sad.  It’s being created and hopefully I’ll figure out what it’s about.  As of today the title is – The Untitled Mouse Project.  Upward and Onwards.  Stay tuned for more updates.  I will try to keep this site up better.  If you want my daily activity you can always find out what happened during my days at http://www.mythirtythirdyear.com.  Thanks for reading! Amye

Frigid Festival

Excited to announce that my old/new comedy “Jack and the Giant” and my one-act “36 Hours” will be a part of the 2013 Frigid Festival in New York!  Super Excited.

Also going to try to update this site for everyone.  It’s been awhile.

If you want to check out my daily activity – I’m blogging about my 33 year at http://www.mythirtythirdyear.com.

Have a great day!

Amye

FALLING – Review

Check out the review from NyTheatre.com.  It’s been weird being away from the show the past couple of days.  But we do have two more performances left!

 

FALLING

nytheatre.com review
reviewed by Cate Cammarata  ·  August 12, 2012

 

Mildred (Kerry Fitzgibbons) and James (Josh Bywater), both history teachers, are strangers who fall accidentally in love on an Amtrak train to Boston while bonding over shared passions of books, history and literature. As we are drawn into their love story, we next find ourselves in a sterile hospital waiting room watching two other strangers bond while waiting to hear news of loved ones involved in a tragic car accident.

 

The structure of this play is beautiful, allowing the audience to participate both in Mildred and James’s love story at the same time that the second narrative develops in the hospital waiting room with Jessica (Tiffany May McRae) and Drew (Billy Weimer). Mildred and James stay onstage throughout, and we’re there with them as they fall in love even after our focus shifts. Our ambivalence about their situation is reflected by their two sisters who understand the consequences of their unexpected romance, Polly Anna (Elanna White) and Beth (Janine Kyanko). Through these two stories the playwright, Amy E. Witting, pushes us to reconsider what is acceptable in the area of romance. Are we willing to trade off commitments made twenty years ago to pursue an intimate relationship that could be the greatest love of our life right now? Can we box in the person we are now by the vows made by someone we used to be? Are we willing to explore inconvenient passions? We watch as Mildred and James answer those questions for themselves.

 

Witting’s strategy of juxtaposing scenes from two different time sequences while keeping both stories onstage at the same time is brilliant—the audience is literally in two different places at the same time. Although the action drags at some points, for the most part the witty dialogue and expert direction by Jacob Titus move the plot forward delightfully. Bywater and Fitzgibbons give a beautifully sensual portrayal of the lovers, and McRae is delightful as the frustrated wife throwing food at the back wall of the hospital. Elanna White’s character of the “autistic spectrum” younger sister was at times overly intense and under-developed, but balanced by Janine Kyanko and Billy Weimer’s authenticity. The simple lighting worked well at shifting our focus from story to story, but the production would have benefited from additional sound effects to define the separate specific locations.

 

Falling is a beautifully written play that forces us to stop and reconsider the curveballs that Fate sometimes throws at us.