Site-Specific BROKEN BONE BATHTUB Returns to NYC Tonight

Siobhan O'Loughlin brings her intimate solo theatrical event to Brooklyn, Manhattan & Queens today, January 13, through February 26.

BROKEN BONE BATHTUB is the award-winning immersive one-person play taking place inside a bathtub-in an actual home. After a serious bike accident, a young woman musters up the courage to ask for help, and shares her story, exploring themes of trauma, suffering, human generosity and connection.

The audience (of 4 to 8 people at a time) takes on the role of Siobhan's close friends; listening and sharing their own experiences, and assisting the cast-clad artist in her very real ritual of taking a bath.

Broken Bone Bathtub plays the following schedule through February 26 (specific location given upon reservation): SUNDAY: 2pm & 4pm; MONDAY-SATURDAY: 7pm & 9pm.

BROOKLYN
Bushwick - Jan. 13 & 14, Feb. 18 & 19
Bed Stuy - Jan. 20, Feb. 3
Crown Heights - Jan. 28
Prospect Heights - Feb. 2
Fort Greene - Feb. 4

MANHATTAN
Upper West Side - Jan. 15
Lower East Side - Jan. 22 & Feb. 23
East Village - Feb. 5, 9 & 12
Flatiron - Feb. 16 & 17
Greenwich Village - Feb. 24 & 25

QUEENS
Astoria - Jan. 27, 29 & Feb. 10, 26

Tickets are $35.00 and are now available online at artful.ly.

Running Time: 1 hour (No intermission).

Broken Bone Bathtub has performed to sold out site-specific venues all over the world, received an Outstanding Solo Performance Award from The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, and was named in the Top Ten Shows not to miss by City Pages Minneapolis, Best Performances in 2016 by DC Metro Theatre Arts, and Immersive Theatre Shows to See by The New York Times.

Broken Bone Bathtub premiered in Tokyo, and has since been performed throughout Australia, Ireland, the UK, and across the USA-from Los Angeles to Baltimore, to St. Louis, Minneapolis and Orlando. This New York run will be a return to New York City, with a revised script reflecting present times. This follows an earlier sold out run in 2014, produced by Elephant Run District, which was featured in The New York Times in: "A Surreal Dive Into Immersive Theater."

After a bike accident, leading to a broken hand, Ms. O'Loughlin began borrowing friends' bathtubs all over New York (since she only had a shower). Crafted from a set of Ms. O'Loughlin's journal entries after the accident, Broken Bone Bathtub is a testament to the kindness and generosity of her friends helping her take a bath, buying her dinner, leaving her wine and chocolate, getting her new bubbles, and washing their favorite warm bath robes for her to use. The theatrical experience stems from how much their openness, kindness, and generosity contributed to her healing, as well as a meditation on our many pathways to healing-through self, community, and the political movements around us that inspire us to keep going...even in tumultuous times.

Broken Bone Bathtub in New York is in part sponsored by Soap Cherie in Williamsburg - uniquely handmade organic soap and bath products.

For more about the show, go to brokenbonebathtub.com.

SIOBHAN O'LOUGHLIN is a Brooklyn-based writer, performer, activist, and award-winning playwright who tours her solo work internationally. She is a Moth Story Slam Champion, a founding member of the Australian/American storytelling conglomerate Everything is Everywhere, a published playwright with Indie Theatre Now, a trained Joker with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, a New York Innovative Theatre Award winner, and a grant recipient of the Network of Ensemble Theatres. O'Loughlin received her BA in Acting from Towson University in Baltimore, MD, studied Devised Theatre and Choreography abroad at Dartington College of Arts in Devon, England, and practiced puppetry under the tutelage of Peter Schumann at Bread & Puppet Theatre in Glover, VT. In addition to her solo work, O'Loughlin has spent the past seven years in NYC puppeteering, playing the ukulele, hosting monthly performance art potpourris, and educating youth in creative arts.

Solo performance is Siobhan's main vessel of creative work. She has three full-length solo shows, The Rope in Your Hands, Natural Novice, and Broken Bone Bathtub, all of which have toured nationally across the USA, and globally throughout the UK, Ireland, Japan and the Philippines. The Rope in Your Hands received five star reviews at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival and in Washington, DC., as well as awarded Fringe Crush in St. Louis, MO. Natural Novice was awarded Best of the Fest at Charm City Fringe Festival in Baltimore, MD, and also the recipient of the 2014 Fringe Crush award at the St Louis Fringe. Both of these two shows have also been presented at universities, where Siobhan pairs the performance with a workshop in storytelling, civic engagement, and activism.

(photo by Jason Speakman)

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