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Fuddy Meers
Fuddy Meers
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Author: David Lindsay-Abaire Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 74 Pub. Date: 2000 ISBN-10: 0822217511 ISBN-13: 9780822217510 Cast Size: 3 female, 4 male
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About the Play:
Fuddy Meers has become a favourite of acting teachers for
Female Monologues.
Fuddy Meers is a full-length comedy by David
Lindsay-Abaire. A seriocomic portrait of an amnesiac wife and
mother who wakes up every morning to discover she has forgotten
everything she knows, leaving her husband to fill her in details of
her identity and situation. A heroine with such a vulnerable Achilles
heel can only fall into comic trouble, and Claire does when she's
unwittingly kidnapped by a disfigured, limping man, a henchman who
talks through a hand puppet, and a female cop.
Fuddy Meers revolves around Claire who has a rare form of
psychogenic amnesia that erases her memory whenever she goes to
sleep. This morning, like all mornings, she wakes up a blank slate.
Her chipper husband comes in with a cup of coffee, explains her
condition, hands her a book filled with all sorts of essential
information, and he disappears into the shower. A limping, lisping,
half-blind, half-deaf man in a ski mask, pops out from under her bed
and claims to be her brother, there to save her. Claire's info book
is quickly discarded, and she's hustled off to the country-house of
her mother, a recent stroke victim whose speech has been reduced to
utter gibberish. Claire's journey gets even more complicated when a
dimwitted thug with a foul-mouthed hand puppet pops up at a window,
and her driven husband and perpetually stoned son show up with a
claustrophobic lady-cop that they've kidnapped. Every twist and turn
in this funhouse plot bring Claire closer to revealing her past life
and everything she thought she'd forgotten. It's one harrowing and
hilarious turn after another on this roller coaster ride through the
day of an amnesiac trying to decipher her fractured life. This
poignant and brutal new comedy traces one woman's attempt to regain
her memory while surrounded by a curio-cabinet of alarmingly bizarre
characters.
Fuddy Meers premiered in 1999 at the Manhattan Theatre Club
(MTC) Off-Broadway in New York City and earned the kind of raves that
a promising young playwright dreams about. The New
York Observer called him some kind of
comic genius. Since then it has received over 300 productions across
America and abroad (including London's West End), and
has become a popular choice for school and community theatre
productions.
Cast: 3 female, 4 male
What people say:
"…heady fun…fresh, zingy
dialogue, which revels in warping the language of self-help books …
Like the resourceful chef who turns leftovers into haute cuisine, Mr.
Lindsay-Abaire blends clichéd ingredients into something savory and
distinctive … [a] dark, sweet and thoroughly engaging comedy."
— New York Times
"…an antically zany new
play…." — Variety
"A zany, disturbing and
strangely affecting comedy. It's a bit of youthful happiness unlike
any other." — Associated Press
"…wicked fun … the evening
explodes with laughter." — New York Magazine
About the Playwright:
David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright, lyricist,
librettist and screenwriter. He is the author of Rabbit Hole,
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His other theatre works
include Good People, Fuddy Meers, and Kimberly Akimbo. He is Co-Chair
of the Juilliard School's Playwriting Program.
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