STUFF Adds Second Show at United Solo

In Stuff, playwright/performer John Feffer introduces his most personal play yet. Playing the roles of his mother, his aunt, and his distant relative Soviet poet Yitzik Feffer, he tells the story of a woman who gives away her most cherished possessions and reveals her most closely guarded secrets. Other real-life characters describe their own stuff: a filled-to-bursting storage unit of train memorabilia, an art collection lost to the wrecker's ball in lower Manhattan, a Moscow meeting with Paul Robeson, and a long-lost file box of knowledge. Audience members participate in the experience by receiving and passing around the stuff they're handed at the outset of the play.

Directed by Natalia Gleason, Stuff has already sold out its September 26 show in the upcoming United Solo Festival. A second show has been added on Friday, September 25 at 9 pm.

Stuff received several five-star reviews when it debuted at the Capital Fringe Festival in July 2015. Christopher Henley raved in DC Theatre Scene: "It's a lovely, wonderfully written, beautifully detailed, and resonant solo show that I can wholeheartedly recommend to anyone who will read this review."

And in DC Metro Theater Arts, Lauren Katz wrote: "Thought-provoking and comedic, John Feffer's Stuff will engage you from start to finish. Who knows? Maybe he will inspire you too."

Stuff is Feffer's first United Solo show, but his seventh Capital Fringe production in seven years. His previous shows - Krapp's Last Power Point, Edible Rex, The Bird, The Pundit, The Politician, and Interrogation - all played to packed houses and garnered rave reviews. The Pundit also appeared in the New York Fringe in 2012. His play Before/After debuted in May 2015 in the European Month of Culture sponsored in Washington, DC by the European Union.

Last year, Interrogation was lauded in DC Metro Theatre Arts as "a deftly told dark comedy about a serious and timely subject that immerses the audience completely in its creative story." The previous year, The Politician was praised by DC Broadway World as "a brilliant mix of theater and politics." The Washington Post said that The Pundit "deflates its target with a sharp satiric pin," and the Washington City Paper wrote "Feffer is a brilliant writer and performer" in its review of Edible Rex.

John Feffer is a foreign policy expert at the Institute for Policy Studies, a Washington, DC thinktank. He was recently an Open Society Foundation fellow looking at Eastern Europe 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. His latest book, Crusade 2.0, was released by City Lights Books & was highlighted on CSPAN BookTV in May 2012. His article "My Backlogged Pages," was published in The New York Times; an excerpt from Edible Rex & his article on Jeju Island were both published by The Washington Post.

2015 United Solo, the world's largest solo theatre festival, currently in its 6th year, will present 150 shows from six continents at Theatre Row: 410 West 42nd Street, New York City. TICKETS, with a price of $19.25 (including a $1.25 theatre restoration charge) are available at Theatre Row box office, 410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, as well as over the phone at 212.239.6200 and online at telecharge.com. More details can be found at www.unitedsolo.org