IRT THEATRE
presents

IN A TILTED PLACE

Written by Troy Deutsch
Directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe and Courtney Ulrich
Set Design: Kate Noll
Lighting Design: Scot Gianelli
Puppet Design; Brandon Hardy
Sound Design & Original Music: Matt Otto
Stage Manager: Jenny Gorelick

Featuring: Kelsie Jepsen, Sean Kazarian, Michael Kingsbaker, Rachel Moulton, Ronald Peet, Pamela Shaw, Cassandra Stokes-Wylie

Press Representative: Katie Rosen & Antonio Minino, Kampfire PR

IRT Theatre
154 Christopher Street, 3B
Fridays, Saturdays, Mondays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm & August 27th at 8pm)
Through August 30th
http://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/in-a-tilted-place/
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1707909

IN A TILTED PLACE is a melding of nine interconnected scenes that take place in and around New York City sites including Rock Center, The High Line and the Hudson River. The props are minimal, and background stark, dirty and structureless, much like the play content.

An optimistic young woman dreams of finding her true love; a fat girl runs to the city, desperately trying to escape her loneliness; a drunk finds his mermaid and douses her with his whiskey; an innkeeper lures young men into slavery; a pair of sickly, vampire sisters devour men, but can’t quell their hunger; a misfit couple pretend they fit together; a young girl in a café almost gets scammed by a psychic; a hilarious, scatological roommate horror story; and a nightmare ending to a dream in the heat of summer.

The scene with the fat girl sets the stage and delivers the primary message. She makes eyes with a young black man in a cafe, approaches him, and within minutes is telling him she loves him. He tells her he’s being hired by her father to keep an eye on her, and is otherwise completely uninterested. “I sit here, jotting down notes on your nothingness,” he says. Yet, she remains deluded.

The characters in each scene share similarities - they are outcasts, desperate, angry and disturbed and have moved to the Big Apple to escape their nothingness. The tragicomedy begins and ends in idyllic dreams that end in nightmares. Their situations disturb yet entertain. The script pokes fun at desperation, but speaks to the loss of order, grace and dignity in the world. The dialogue is at times hilarious, but it’s the acting that helps this play stand out.

- Gloria Talamas -