Carlsbad Playreaders Present FUDDY MEERS, 3/19

Claire has a rare form of psychogenic amnesia that erases her memory whenever she goes to sleep. This morning, like all mornings, she wakes up a blank slate. Her chipper husband comes in with a cup of coffee, explains her condition, hands her a book filled with all sorts of essential information, and he disappears into the shower. A limping, lisping, half-blind, half-deaf man in a ski mask pops out from under her bed and claims to be her brother, there to save her.

Claire's info book is quickly discarded, and she's hustled off to her mother's the country-house of her mother, a recent stroke victim whose speech has been reduced to utter gibberish. Claire's journey gets even more complicated when a dimwitted thug with a foul-mouthed hand puppet shows up, and her driven husband and perpetually stoned son show up with a claustrophobic cop that they've kidnapped. Every twist and turn in this funhouse plot bring Claire closer to revealing her past life and everything she thought she'd forgotten.

It's one harrowing and hilarious turn after another on this roller coaster ride through the day of an amnesiac trying to decipher her fractured life. This poignant and brutal comedy traces one woman's attempt to regain her memory while surrounded by a curio-cabinet of alarmingly bizarre characters.

April 30
SAVIN' UP FOR SATURDAY NIGHT (MUSICAL)
by Jeff Goode & Richard Levinson Directed by Richard Levinson

June 18
FENCES
by August Wilson Directed by Antonio Johnson

August 13
MRS. FARNSWORTH
by A.R. Gurney

October 1
BELLEVILLE
by Amy Herzog

November 5
BETRAYAL
by Harold Pinter

Carlsbad Playreaders is made possible in part by the Carlsbad Library and Arts Foundation, Robert H. Gartner Cultural Endowment Fund. For more information, visit www.carlsbadplayreaders.org.

Carlsbad Playreaders Announce a Staged Reading of the Riotously FUDDY MEERS, from Award-Winning Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire FUDDY MEERS
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by AJ Knox

Starring: Wendy Waddell Dana Case Dallas McLaughlin Wendy Maples Jonathan Meza (AEA) Jon Sangster Skyler Beckett

Monday, March 19th, at 7:30 p.m. at the Carlsbad Dove Library Schulman Auditorium, 1775 Dove Lane, off El Camino Real in Carlsbad Tickets: Free, or Donate-what-you-can Suggested Donations: $1: Student $5: General Admission $10: Support the Arts.