Petie Written by Lori Fischer Directed by Martha Banta Presented by Theatre East at Urban Stages, NYC September 23 - October 8, 2017
How many places have you gone in the past 10 days? Now what about in the past ten years? The matriarch at the center of Lori Fischer's world-premiere play Petie hasn't ventured beyond her Tennessee yard in the decade since her young son's death, an event that continues to bind the remaining family members' lives as surely as the property line bounds hers. Presented by Theatre East, a company that concentrates on new plays with socially relevant themes, Petie asks whether the family can become more than a prison and a site of fracture for these characters.
The eponymous Petie (Grayson Taylor) -- pronounced Petey but with a visual echo of petit -- takes his affectionate appellation from his father, Pete (co-founder and Artistic Director of Theatre East Judson Jones), a.
How many places have you gone in the past 10 days? Now what about in the past ten years? The matriarch at the center of Lori Fischer's world-premiere play Petie hasn't ventured beyond her Tennessee yard in the decade since her young son's death, an event that continues to bind the remaining family members' lives as surely as the property line bounds hers. Presented by Theatre East, a company that concentrates on new plays with socially relevant themes, Petie asks whether the family can become more than a prison and a site of fracture for these characters.
The eponymous Petie (Grayson Taylor) -- pronounced Petey but with a visual echo of petit -- takes his affectionate appellation from his father, Pete (co-founder and Artistic Director of Theatre East Judson Jones), a.
- 10/1/2017
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
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- 7/13/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
PlaywrightActor Lori Fischer's latest work, The Memory of Damage, will have a private industry reading today, June 7, 2013 at 3pm at The Goldberg Theatre at N.Y.U. 721 Broadway, 7th Floor. Alexander Gemignani John Doyle's Sweeney Todd, Les Miserables, Jeffry Denman White Christmas, John Doyle's Passion, and Michael Countryman Wit star. Gabriel Barre Amazing Grace, Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party directs.
- 6/7/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
PlaywrightActor Lori Fischer's latest work, The Memory of Damage, will have a private industry reading on Friday, June 7, 2013 at 3pm at The Goldberg Theatre at N.Y.U. 721 Broadway, 7th Floor. Alexander Gemignani John Doyle's Sweeney Todd, Les Miserables, Jeffry Denman White Christmas, John Doyle's Passion, and Michael Countryman Wit star. Gabriel Barre Amazing Grace, Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party directs.
- 6/4/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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