American Renaissance Theater Company
presents

KALLIE

Written by STUART D’VER
Directed by ELOWYN CASTLE

Featuring
BALTSAR BECKELD, RACHAEL JENISON, KOHLER McKENZIE, & JAMES NUGENT

Set Design: BRITTANY VASTA
Lighting Design: ZACH PIZZA
Sound Design: LOUIS LOPARDI
Costume Design: LISA MARIE McCARROLL
Fight Director: MERON LANGSNER
Stage Manager: TA'NEA HILL

CAP21 Theatre
18 West 18th Street
5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
(800) 838-3006 or www.brownpapertickets.com/event/693693
June 5 through June 22, 2014

KALLIE is a crazy woman. Even she admits that. She lives in the past and present simultaneously, with the aid of multiple meds and lots of white wine. Or without the aid of her meds. It doesn’t seem to matter, really. She’s just a walking delusion, alternately angry and needy. Describing itself as a pitch-black surreal comedy of madness and love, KALLIE certainly is pitch-black, surreal, and full of madness. The love is seen only in flashes during her brief moments of sanity. It is comedy, but bittersweet, as it becomes ever more obvious that any normalcy she attains will be fleeting.

When Kallie and her boyfriend have a heated 3 a.m. argument over who is going to do the laundry, Kallie decides to take the train to find her father. She is terrified of flying. She is also terrified of the giant rats and cockroaches she imagines are waiting for her in the basement laundry room. (Note: she works in customer service for a cable company. This may explain many things.)

She is dozing on the train when a stranger sits down beside her. They fall into conversation. Turns out she’s on the wrong train, going in the wrong direction, has the wrong ticket, and no more money. Her fried brain can’t deal with this. She gets off at the end of the line and goes searching for her college boyfriend. They had a “bad” break-up. But she’s not worried. Worry is not in her list of madnesses. It becomes a surprise visit indeed, for her, the old boyfriend, and his current male roommate.

She “remembers” things that never happened, goes into denial at every opportunity, and has no concept of the passage of time in the present. Sweet kid. When she finally finds her father, she does nothing but insult him. Manic mode again. He does what he can to help her. Everyone else has failed. This is her last chance. Success is up to her, if she can summon her fragile resources and accept her father’s love.

-Karen D’Onofrio-