San Diego Rep Closes Moira Keefe's MY YEAR OF LIVING ANXIOUSLY, 2/2

MY YEAR OF LIVING ANXIOUSLY, a new work, looks at the complicated life of a member of the sandwich generation wedged between aging parents, hormonal teenagers and psychiatric bologna. Drawing on the diaries her father kept for 63 years (documenting, among other things, Keefes own raucous youth) and letters from her mother, and research from doctors, Keefe weaves generational perspectives on real-life events and traumas while she reveals her growing respect for her parents as the diaries and letters expose the storm of parenthood that they weathered. This work contains Keefes trademark wisecracking humor and wacky sensibility as well as touching revelations.

MY YEAR OF LIVING ANXIOUSLY has been performed as a staged reading at the North Coast repertory Theatre in Solana Beach and in Missoula and Whitefish, Montana

The piece is directed by KIM RUBENSTEIN who is head of the undergraduate Acting program at UCSD and recently directed Savannah Disputation at the the Old Globe Theatre.

MOIRA KEEFE has toured extensively as a solo performer with her pieces, LIFEAFTERBIRTH, LIFE BEFORE SEX, LIFE BEFORE THE CRISIS and THE CRISIS, and in STAYING MARRIED, her collaboration with Charlie Oates. Her work has been seen in theatres and festivals in North America, Europe and the Pacific including the Dublin Theatre Festival (Ireland), The Wellington Fringe (New Zealand), the Victory Theatre (Los Angeles) and the Post Theatre Company (New York).

Keefe is a resident of Enciburbia where she has been serving time for the past thirteen years with the Spouse (Charlie Oates professor of movement at UCSD) and her sixteen year old daughter Rocky. Her eldest daughter Scoop (23) is now serving time in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic

The show will also have EVA BARNES (UCSD voice and speech professor) as costar and LOWELL GASPARA a local San Diego actor and Emergency Room Doctor.

Now Playing at the REP~ BOOM, a cataclysmic comedy about a young marine biologist and his preparation for the world's end, playing now through January 31. A WEEKEND WITH PABLO PICASSO (March 21 - April 11, 2010) Herbert Siguenza's new one-man show which pays homage to one of the greatest and most controversial artists of the 20th century.

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