A Room Of My Own Play

Break out the tissues.

A room of my own play.

It s the space many have craved when stuck indoors working from home home schooling or both. There is a special matinee performance friday march 4 at 3. For all its life and energy a room of my own is one of those 90 minute plays that needs an intermission and another half hour. Charles messina s semi autobiographical comedy a room of my own revolves around a writer who grows up in a wacky italian american family.

Set in a small tenement apartment in late 1970s greenwich village the play follows in the grand tradition of playwrights like neil simon who used their own early family lives as inspiration to create indelible and uniquely american broadway hits. It s an appropriately socially distanced state too as long as there s four square metres and a bottle of hand sanitiser within reach. It is during the depression and since times are bad her aunt sally uncle jim and two of their sons have come to live with the eides who are more well off. The back room of this small home serves double duty as a play area and the pathway into the backyard.

Very large text size on name alone a room of one s own is the perfect play for a pandemic. Wishing for his own room and an atari video game young carl shares the tiny studio in a five flight crumbling walk up apartment with his. Performances are tuesdays at 7 wednesdays at 3 and 7 thursdays and fridays at 8 saturdays at 2 and 8 and sundays at 2. A room of my own plays at the june havoc theater 312 west 36th street through march 13 2016.

Ralph macchio the karate kid dancing with the stars co stars as carl morelli a writer who reminisces about his adolescence and childhood dreams of the world outside his crowded downtown tenement. The long lost relative liza vann who delivers that big check of. This is told through the eyes of preteen ginny eide whose father is a doctor.