Theatre 13 Feb 2010

Feb. 13, Sat,; 8:00 pm Theater Fuddy Meers (Comedy - Arizona Premiere) - Presented by Nearly Naked Theatre in the Little Theater at Phoenix Theater, 100 E. McDowell Road, Phoenix. This poignant and brutal new comedy traces one woman's attempt to regain her memory while surrounded by a curio-cabinet of alarmingly bizarre characters. 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. From there her day becomes a harrowing rollercoaster ride as she meets a limping, lisping, half-blind, half-deaf man in a ski mask, her perpetually stoned son, her gibberish-speaking mother, a dimwitted thug with a foul-mouthed hand puppet and a claustrophobic lady-cop. 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 hilarious turn after another, through the day of an amnesiac trying to decipher her fractured life. Tickets: $18.50 (Senior group rate for 10 or more; $22.00 senior rate if less than 10). Pre-show dinner at 5:30 p.m. at China Chile’s, 302 E. Flower Street, Phoenix. Contact Howard Shapiro, 480-962-9321 for tickets and dinner reservations by 1/27. www.nearlynakedtheatre.org www.chinachilirestaurant.com Nearly Naked Theatre is a recipient of SFA arts donations.