New Theatre-Set Play Good Opinions Opens July 23rd
The Canadian Fizzard had her first play, Subway to Tickle Gut, produced in her native Newfoundland in 1990 and was subsequently commissioned to co-write the screenplay in 1991. The film won an Honorable Mention at the International Short Film Festival in Montreal the following year. A character actress, Anne began her career by playing a ferret and has since played a wide range of roles, from Karen in Speed-the-Plow to an Elizabethan apothecary to a kidney specialist. (Along the way, she did indeed work as a waitress/hostess/coat-check girl in a New York theatre-district restaurant). In 1999 she wrote for, and performed in, Baggage Claim at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York. The following year, she produced an hour-long show of her own comedy sketches Off-Off-Broadway. Good Opinions is her first full-length script.
Hilbe has worked in many countries throughout Europe, as well as in the United
States. From 1997 to 2002 she was Assistant Director, House Director and
Director in Germany at the Frankfurt Opera, where she directed Verdi's Falstaff and Salieri's Prima la musica, poi le parole. At the State Theater in Darmstadt she
directed Manfred Trojahn's Enrico,
and at the City Theatre of Wurzburg, Claude
Debussy's Pelleas et
Melisande, while working there as director from
1994-1997. In the U.S. she directed
Richard Strauss' Salome for Kentucky
Opera.
Show times for Good Opinions are: Saturday, July 23rd at 11:30 AM, Sunday, July 24th at 3:30 PM, Thursday, July 28th at 7:30 PM, Sunday,
July 31st at 5:30 PM, Monday, August
1st at 9:30 PM and Saturday, August 6th at 9:30 PM. Tickets, which
are $15.00 and $12.00 for students and seniors, are available by visiting www.smarttix.com or calling: 212-858-4444.
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