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40 POUNDS IN 12 WEEKS: A LOVE STORY by Pidge Meade
The Marsh is proud to announce Pidge Meade's 40 POUND IN 12 WEEKS: A LOVE STORY as part of its Festival of New Voices.
The two-week Festival is the culmination of The Marsh Performance Initiative, a nine-month model for performance development taking into account both the artistic development and the business aspects of developing new theater.
There will be six, new full-length solo works, all from up-and-coming performers, and 11 shorter works. Also, two established Marsh performers, Don Reed and Ann Randolph, have been invited to use the Festival as an impetus to start new work.
Each full-length piece will have four performances at the Festival. The shorter works will be performed twice each, preceding the full-length works.
It's 1986 and Meade is home after her freshman year of college with loads of new ideas in her head and 40 new pounds on her five-foot frame. Her Dad a tough, no-nonsense, world-renowned gymnastics coach takes one horrified look at his 'super-sized' daughter and issues an ultimatum: shed the weight by summer's end or kiss college goodbye! Flash forward. After losing 70 pounds, Meade attends a college reunion and runs into her old roommate, who wants to know how she shed the weight. But this tale of life changes like the confrontation between old friends takes some decidedly unexpected twists. Meade has appeared from coast to coast in everything from Shakespeare to Sondheim to really bad murder mystery dinner theatre. Favorite Bay Area roles include Sarah Brown in "Guys and Dolls" and the title role in "Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge."
Scheduled with the following shorter works:
MEMPHIS ON MY MIND by Rebecca Fisher: Saturday, June 5 & Wednesday, June 9
BOARD POLICY 213 by Wayne Harris: Sunday, June 6
THE KIPLING HOTEL (excerpt) by Don Reed: Saturday, June 12
For a complete schedule of the festival and descriptions of the shorter pieces, please visit our website: www.themarsh.org
Festival Passes are available for $42 and are good for all performances. These may be purchased by phone at 415-641-0235.
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LocationThe Marsh
1062 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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