Comedy of New Age manners and mores is set among the "worried creatives" of
post-9/11 New York.
August Strindberg Rep congratulates
resident playwright Natalie Menna
on the premiere of her new play,
"Zen A.M."
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT MAY 31 TO JUNE 16
Comedy of New
Age manners and mores is set among the "worried creatives"
of post-9/11 New York. It's Lower Manhattan in 2005 and a
new painter and 9/11 survivor faces an artistic dilemma -- should he cave to
shifting cultural mores or stand his sacred ground over a commission?
Since classical times, artists have had to reconcile the demands of
their patrons with their own artistic integrity. "Zen A.M." is meant to
illustrate the artist's conundrum, nesting it in present-day issues of class
identification, compassion, cultural identity and creative resistance. The play
offers us laughable characters who are straining to act rationally when faced
with difficult decisions of this sort. Bruno, a 9/11
survivor, has abandoned his lucrative Wall Street career to pursue his lifelong
dream of becoming a painter. He has been commissioned to provide a painting for
a museum being planned for the 9/11 site, but feels politically conflicted
about it. As Bruno's vacillations increase, hysteria and hilarity ensue. Can
financial folly, a marriage-minded conservative girlfriend, a greedy guru, and
a crusading fashionista change his mind? The play is light
farce with the theme that Americans will never agree about anything again
because we are so divided, but its deeper theme is the price of artistic
integrity. WITH
Alexandra Bonesho*, Brad Fryman*, John Gazzale, Elizabeth
Inghram*, Dai Ishiguro and and Sean Phillips
Set design by Mark Marcante
Lighting design by Alexander Bartenieff Props design by Lytza
Colon Costume design by Niiamar Felder
Sound design by Jacon Subotnick Stage Manager Emely Selina
Zepeda Playwright Natalie Menna is author of
"Occasionally Nothing," which was presented by Theater for the New City's 2018
Dream Up Festival, and "Committed," which was performed in 2017 at the 14th
Street Y. She is a resident playwright of August Strindberg Rep, for which she
adapted "Journey in Light and Shadow" by Stig Dalager for a 2017 production at
Gene Frankel Theatre. Her plays have won multiple awards in the Planet
Connections Theatre Festivity. Director Andrew Block
received the Ovation and L.A.Drama Critics Circle awards for Best Director and
Production for the world premiere of "Small Engine Repair" by John Pollono. He
has directed productions at Theater at 14th Street Y, the Lortel, Planet
Connections Festivity and FringeNYC, among others. He also serves as
representative for the Off and Off-Off Broadway community for TDF.
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