WASHING MACHINE
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 23, 2008
Closed Jul 19, 2008
Opened Jun 23, 2008
Closed Jul 19, 2008
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Running Time:
1hr. 0min.
1hr. 0min.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
WASHING MACHINE is a tragicomic solo performance about the mysterious death of a five year old girl who drowned inside a laundromat washing machine. Inspired by a June 2005 Washington Post article, the play is a bracing re-imagining of the five year old girl's final moments of breath as she and the small town wrestle with the consequences of her death.
Starring up and coming actress Dana Berger, the play expands the girl's last hallucinogenic seconds as she transforms into eight characters that all play a part in her drowning.
FIST IN THE POCKET THEATER is a company developing and producing plays that are fierce, funny, visceral, and immediate. Utilizing a mixture of the traditional and the bizarre, we explore passionate examinations of entertaining misfits through the intimacy of performance and arresting design.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Sanford Meisner Theater
164 11th Ave
New York, NY 10011
Home to the Vortex Theatre Company, this theater was named for the famous actor and director. It is a small, comfortable space located in a Chelsea brownstone.
164 11th Ave
New York, NY 10011
Home to the Vortex Theatre Company, this theater was named for the famous actor and director. It is a small, comfortable space located in a Chelsea brownstone.
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Her face pressed close to a small, clear plastic bag containing water, Dana Berger widens her eyes and mouth into a look of horror. This is just one of the many striking images within Washing Machine, Jason Stuart's solo play, currently at the Sanford Meisner Theater. Inspired by a real-life tragedy wherein a young girl drowned within a laundromat washing machine, the work is unevenly performed by Berger, but still manages to make an impression, thanks largely to a strong design team serving the vision of director Michael Chamberlain.
Berger enacts a number of characters of various ages and genders, including the drowned girl's anguished mother, her sullen but aggressive stepbrother, her b[...]