Apt. 10C Productions presents
THE SLOW DANCE
By Lisi DeHaas
Directed by Lily Kanter Riopelle
March 8 - March 23, 2024
7:30 PM
59e59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street New York, NY 10022
Meet the Production Team
Photographer: Richard Termine
2F, 1M, 1 nonbinary
Son is pushing fifty and just got engaged.
Mother must move out of her house.
Fiancee would like to get married. Now!
Is a Professional Organizer the answer?
When change
Feels like the death
Of everything you’ve ever known
And the thing you know best
Is fear of change
Is letting go even possible?
Sometimes adulthood is a Bear.
A workshop reading of the play was held
May 12th, 2023
at the New Georges Room
520 8th Ave.
New York City
Directed by Lily Kanter Riopelle
Featuring: Peggy J. Scott, Erik Lochtefeld, Melanie Nicholls-King, Jax Jackson, and Tori Ernst.
A reading of the play was held
October 26th, 2019, at 3pm
at The Tank, 312 W. 36th St.
New York City
Directed by Lily Riopelle
Featuring Peggy J. Scott, Moti Margolin, Vivia Font, Zia Lawrence, and Rebecca Gever.
Developed in Convergences Theater Collective Summer Residency 2018.
A play by Lisi DeHaas
Premiered in New York City March 20, 2015
2F, 2M
What do a failed soap opera star, her co-dependent teenage son, his neurotic twelve-stepping girlfriend, and the pot dealer across the hall have in common? They're each surviving members of families broken by loss. But in New York City, families aren't just broken, they're reconstituted, rebuilt and redefined.
LEAVE ME GREEN investigates the dream of creating our own worlds and families in this city of refugees. It also tests the strength of that dream when our mother or brother or father or lover who first imagined such a world with us is never coming back. When we lose a loved one, do we also lose the family we so richly imagined with them? Or do we remember them better by rebuilding a family from the broken pieces that remain?
Leave Me Green was conceived in a weekend intensive with Tanya Barfield, and developed in workshops with Karen Hartman. Jay Stull directed a reading in July 2014, which led to them working together on the play's World Premiere at The Gym at Judson.
Directed by Jay Stull
Starring:
Charlotte Booker*
Oscar A.L. Cabrera
Michael Gaines*
Emma Meltzer
*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association
Crew:
Stage Manager: Kristine Schlachter
Set: Jessica Parks
Lights: Nick Houfek
Sound: Jeanne Travis
Costumes: Lux Haac
Produced by: Jack O'Brien
Photo credits: Russ Rowland
2 cisfemme, 1 butch, 1 transfemme
An absurdly magical journey through the parallel universes of a band of queer performance artists in late 20th century San Francisco, and the denizens of a Mission district brothel a hundred years before, as they test the boundaries of time, gender, relationships, and each other's souls.
Developed in Monarch Theater's playwriting intensive with Migdalia Cruz and John Jesurun; and with dramaturg Sonya Sobieski.
3F, 1M
Shelagh, a formerly famous punk rocker, returns to her childhood home in New York City to find her mother battling nuns in a catholic nursing home, her former neighbor in a lesbian relationship with her mom, a dark figure from her past dead but not entirely, and a married childhood friend madly in love with her. On top of everything else she's got to convince a semi-feral feline with serious abandonment issues to trust her. And she’s got to do it sober.
2F, 4M, 1 nonbinary
Delight wants this visit to be different. She has a plan! Even though her adult children don’t really speak to each other. Even though she just got some really bad news she isn’t going to tell anybody. Even though she’s really in love and no one cares.
Delight’s Children is a comedy about a broken family returning to a broken house in a broken country after a global pandemic. It’s Independence Day on the island of Nantucket, and despite the fog that will descend, there will be fireworks!
1M, 2F
Max has a pigeon problem.
The pinwheels are not working, the fake owl is useless, and cleaning the balcony was a bad idea.
Now he can't put on his pants!
His daughter wants to help but she lives 3000 miles away and has a dying marriage she's trying to save.
The care aide she sent over is as queer as a three dollar bill.
Which doesn't bother Max, because, hey, so is he. Not that he’s wearing a pink triangle on his forehead or anything.
Tell Me Something Good is a comedy about epigenetics, caregiving, and coming home.
