The Children of Vonderly
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Average of 4.5 stars from 3 ratings.

CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 4, 2007
Closed Oct 21, 2007

Playing at
East Thirteenth Street Theatre

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Ma-Yi Theater Company presents the world premiere of a new play by Lloyd Suh, The Children of Vonderly, directed by Ralph B. Pena.

There's never a dull moment in the Vonderly household. Led by a headstrong Jewish matriarch, this unconventional multi-ethnic family of adopted and disabled children band together after a crisis threatens to rip them apart. Bound by his wheelchair and burdened by family obligations, oldest brother Jerry Vonderly looks for ways to balance his mother's outlandish expectations and his own dreams of a "normal" life outside the family's anything-but-traditional home in Indianapolis, Indiana.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

East Thirteenth Street Theatre
136 E 13th St
New York, NY 10003

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

"What's to become of the children?" Those are the first words uttered in Lloyd Suh's intriguing, but uneven new play The Children of Vonderly, now being presented by the Ma-Yi Theatre Company at the East 13th Street Theatre.

Following the death of a man named Vonderly, his multiracial household is set adrift. Although age-wise, his adopted children are adults, they all have mental or physical disabilities which they have either overcome or remain hampered by. Their Jewish adoptive mother Norma (Lynn Cohen) tries and fails to take her husband's place, as does son Jerry (William Jackson Harper), who is confined to a wheelchair.

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Reviewed by Dan Bacalzo on Oct 5, 2007