Marin Theatre Company Presents FUDDY MEERS, 3/31-4/24

Marin Theatre Company presents Fuddy Meers by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire March 31 through April 24. MTC Producing Director Ryan Rilette directs this "deftly zany absurdist comedy" (New York Magazine) that is "dark, sweet and thoroughly engaging... surprisingly touching" (The New York Times). Opening night is on April 5.
 
Premiering at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1999, Fuddy Meers was Lindsay-Abaire's first play. Earning him several awards, including the John Gassner Playwriting Award and Heilpern Award for Most Promising Dramatist, the play has since become an audience favorite across the country. The plot centers on Claire, an amnesiac who wakes every morning with no memory of her life. One morning, her already complicated situation becomes all the more so when a limping, lisping, half-blind, half-deaf man in a ski mask kidnaps her. As Claire begins to piece clues to her past together, her world becomes an unsettling funhouse where anything can happen.
 
"I am delighted that the mad-cap world of David Lindsay-Abaire's hysterical Fuddy Meers will be taking the MTC stage this spring," says MTC Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis. "This is the play that launched David into the national spotlight and, for audiences familiar with his more recent plays Rabbit Hole, Kimberly Akimbo and Wonder of the World, this will be an amazing opportunity to see how it all started."

Anchored by comic actor and clown Joan Mankin as Gertie, MTC's production of Fuddy Meers features MTC and Bay Area favorites Mollie Stickney as Claire, Andrew Hurteau as Richard, Lance Gardner as Millet and Dena Martinez as Heidi, as well as MTC newcomers Tim True as Limping Man and Sam Leichter as Kenny.

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