Encore Performance of Douglass Truth's AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH DEATH, HERSELF Announced for 10/9

Douglass Truth's critically acclaimed solo show, An Intimate Evening with Death, Herself returns to the United Solo Festival with an encore performance on Saturday, October 9th at 4:00 pm. The production has played to audiences nationwide with notable performances in California, Arizona, Colorado, and Massachusetts.

Audience members have called Douglass, "the love-child of Eddie Izzard and Lily Tomlin" and "funny, engrossing, heretical, beautiful." Others noted, "So glad I was able to witness this amazingly hilarious, poignant, insightful performance. Who knew that Death Herself would turn out to be so life-affirming?"

An Intimate Evening with Death, Herself is a one-woman show about Dorothy, a middle-aged waitress who meets Death in a bar, and 49 days later, replaces him. After a bad day on the cafeteria line, Dorothy goes into a bar where she meets Tod, who turns out to be the Grim Reaper. In the course of an understated, unpretentious, poignant and tender, droll and massively ambitious performance, Dorothy helps her audience relate to death without flinching and with abundant amusement. Warning: everyone who sees this show will someday die.

Performances take place at Theatre Row/Studio Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues), New York, NY 10036. Subways: A/C/E to 42nd Street. Tickets are of $20.25 and are available at the Theatre Row Box Office or at www.unitedsolo.org/us/deathherself-2016 - or by calling Telecharge at 212-239-6200.

Show Date:

Sunday, October 9th @ 4:00 pm

More info is available at www.deathherself.com and www.unitedsolo.org/us

Douglass Truth (Writer/Performer) was born in 1953 in Indianapolis, Indiana, into a family famous for its mechanics, bricklayers, and lawyers, Douglass Truth was cursed from the beginning with a heightened sensibility combined with very poor taste. He has worked as a civil engineering designer and surveyor during the pipeline years in Alaska, a chef, building dismantler, English teacher, and as a software salesman in Taiwan. He owned and operated a graphic design and silk-screen company, Flying Turtle Graphics, supplying his own unique designs on T-shirts, coffee mugs, and posters. Truth began painting in 1996, and has been represented by galleries in California, Arizona, Indiana, New York, and Connecticut.

After a serious illness in 1998 Truth closed his business in order to devote himself entirely to painting and writing. "After such a confrontation, or voyage, or whatever it was," he said, "you find out what is really important to you. I found that out, and am fortunate enough now to be able to do it."

Truth has done performance work with The Black Valley in Grass Valley. He was a founding member and president of the board (2002-2006) of the Storefront Artist Project in Pittsfield, MA. He wrote and published three books, I Am A Dog, Revolution of Flowers, and Everything I Know About Death (Subject to Verification). Truth lives in Nevada City, CA, and is currently preparing for multiple tours of his theater piece An Intimate Evening With Death, Herself.

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