Fuddy Meers
By DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE
September 9 - 25
“…wicked fun…the evening explodes with laughter.” – NY Magazine.
“A fast and genuinely funny high-stakes romp...” – Robert Hurwitt / San Francisco Chronicle
“Wild funhouse ride of [a] play.” – Albert Goodwyn / Examiner.com
“There’s something brazenly appealing about all these weird people.” – David Templeton / North Bay Bohemian
David Lindsay-Abaire is a playwright, screenwriter, lyricist and librettist. He is a proud New Dramatists alum, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Julliard School, as well as a member of the WGA and the Dramatists Guild Council. David’s other plays include Rabbit Hole, Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World, and A DevilInside, among others. His most current play, Good People, opened on Broadway in the Spring of 2011.
Fuddy Meers is an outrageously dark comedy that traces one woman’s attempt to regain her memory while surrounded by a curio-cabinet of alarmingly bizarre characters. Claire has a rare form of psychogenic amnesia that erases her memory whenever she goes to sleep. She awakes and finds her life peopled with a chipper husband, a limping, lisping, half-deaf man claiming to be her brother, a mother whose speech has been reduced to utter gibberish from a stroke, a dimwitted thug with a foul-mouthed hand puppet, a perpetually stoned son, and a claustrophobic lady cop. It’s one harrowing and hilarious turn after another on this wild ride through the day of an amnesiac trying to decipher her fractured life. Think “Memento” meets “Alice in Wonderland” on a roller coaster – inside a funhouse.
