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Food For Fish
Food For Fish
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Author: Adam Szymkowicz Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 67 Pub. Date: 2007 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822221985 ISBN-13: 9780822221982 Cast Size: 4 female, 2 male (doubling)
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About
the Play:
Food
for Fish has become a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues and
Male Monologues.
Food
for Fish is a full-length comedy by Adam Szymkowicz.
Bobbie is a lonely young man living in New York, trying to write
about three sisters who long to escape the city and return to their
childhood home of New Jersey or is he really just an imaginary
character in the mind of Sylvia, the youngest sister? Food for
Fish is a comedy about longing that explores the interesting
comical shifts in our perspectives of what men and women are supposed
to be.
Food
for Fish is a modern take on the Chekhov classic, Three
Sisters. Young Bobbie drops the pages from his novel into the
Hudson River. The pages tell the story of three sisters: Sylvia, a
reporter, Barbara, an agoraphobe, and Alice, a scientist with a
secret plan to isolate and eliminate the gene for love. The three
sisters are going to have to bury their father – when they get
around to it. His coffin has been sitting in the living room for a
year now, and he's starting to smell. Meanwhile, middle sister Alice
is hopelessly in love with the husband of her older sister, and so
she goes out on dates with a different man every night, working in
her lab by day to isolate the human gene that makes us fall in love
so she can control it! Oldest sister Barbara (played by a man) and
her husband (played by a woman) can't figure out how men and women
are supposed to relate to each other. Bobbie goes out each night
kissing strangers, and Sylvia goes out each night looking for Bobbie.
It is set in a world where men became women and women became men. But
how far do you have to bend a gender before it breaks? A story of
unrequited love, missed connections and a novel in a bottle.
Food
for Fish premiered in 2006 at the Kraine Theater
off-off-Broadway in New York City's East Village.
Cast:
4 female, 2 male (doubling)
What
people say:
"…fabulously
weird and weirdly fabulous…the reconsidered stereotypes and
unexpected observations keep coming." — New York
Times
"…a
smart, well-done play…Catch it before it's gone…." —
NYTheatre.com
About
the Playwright:
Adam
Szymkowicz is an American playwright who graduated in 2007 from
The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights
Program. In 2004, he received his playwriting MFA from Columbia
University, where he was the Dean's Fellow. His work has been
produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, The
Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Slovenia, and
Lithuania.
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