Harvey & Ellen Friedman, Richard Posell & Pam Wick, and Aline Harris Present

THE SHOT

Starring SHARON LAWRENCE

Written by ROBIN GERBER
Directed by MICHELLE JOYNER
Production Design: VICKIE J. SCOTT
Production Stage Manager: HAILEY DELANEY

Studio Theater/Theatre Row
10/27 @ 8:30 PM; 10/28 @ 7 PM; 11/1 @8:30 PM, 11/2 @ 2 PM

Award-winning actress Sharon Lawrence surely must be the reason the term “tour de force” was created. This is exactly what she is in Robin Gerber’s THE SHOT. And it is fitting because she is portraying the indomitable Katherine Graham of Washington Post fame, who was a tour de force in her own right. It is not difficult to uncover the highlights of Graham’s career – Pulitzer Prize Winner, publisher of the Pentagon Papers often credited with the resignation of Richard Nixon, and first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company to name a few.

Gerber gives us a more intimate look at the historical lady. Admittedly fictionalized to a certain degree, Graham was an abused wife whose husband suffered from bipolar disorder and alcoholism. Gerber imagines what her existence was like behind closed doors, and Lawrence convincingly breathes life into the words as we accompany the heroine through denigrations and violence to coming into her own power. THE SHOT is a tribute to the perseverance and triumph of all women, and it comes at a time when once again that is being challenged.

- Laurie Lawson -