Lifedream Productions Presents Hell is Where the HEart IS 6/3-18
Lifedream Productions is pleased to present Melissa Skirboll's new comedy, Hell is where the Heart Is, directed by Thom Fogarty, making its world premiere at the Gene Frankel Theater in New York, as part of the 3rd annual Planet Connections Theatre Festivity.
A comic look at sibling rivalry and dysfunctional families fueled by bad dreams and unreliable psychic gifts. As circumstances force the sisters to confront their past, long buried family secrets surface. This family comedy meets theatre of the absurd, as reality shifts.
Hell is Where the Heart Is explores the nature of faith and the possibility of salvation while it skewers religion, the new age, and the occult. Do our beliefs shape our circumstances or vice versa? Are God and the Devil real? Do they take a personal interest in our lives? Or is this all just a bad dream? (If so, who's dreaming who?)
Hell is Where the Heart Is
at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity
Written by Melissa Skirboll
Directed by Thom Fogarty
Where: Gene Frankel Theatre
24 Bond Street
New York, NY 10012
When: 6/3/11 Friday @ 6pm
6/4/11 Saturday @ 1pm
6/9/11 Thursday @ 4pm
6/14/11 Tuesday @ 8pm
6/16/11 Thursday @ 7pm
6/18/11 Saturday @ 4pm
Price: $18 at www.planetconnectionsfestivity.com
Cast: TBA
THOM FOGARTY (director) has been at "it" since 1973 as a performer, choreographer and director. In the last year he has directed: MOMENTS + LEMONS at the Theater for the New City in NYC; BEING HEARD: The LillIan Smith Story at Dixon Place in NYC; BAD CONNECTIONS? at the Hollywood and Edmonton Fringe Festivals and at The Bridge and The Cell Theaters in NYC and Sarah Ruhl's EURYDICE also at The Bridge Theater.
MELISS SKIRBOLL (playwright), this is Ms. Skirboll's first full length play to be produced. Previously she has written for sketch comedy groups in New York and Los Angeles. She has been performing professionally since 1989.
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity is New York's premiere eco-friendly/socially conscious theatre festival. Fostering a diverse cross-section of performances, the festival seeks to inspire artists abd audiences both creatively and fundamentally, in a festive atmosphere. At the heart of the festivity are like-minded individuals striving to create professional, meaningful theatre, while supporting organizations that give back to the community at large.
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