CWS Productions
Producers Club
presents

PIZZA MAN
by DARLENE CRAVIOTTO

May 30 – June 2nd

Producers Club Sonnet Theater
358 W. 44th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pizza-man-tickets-60728896765?aff=eivtefrndutm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=evitefrnd&utm_term=eventimage

Directed, Choreographed and Sound by DANIEL COHEN
Scenic and Lighting Design DIANA DAVILA
Costume Design SARAH BECK
Press Representative SCOTTI RHODES

Cast
Julie – Shira Hadad
Eddie – Lucas Niedzialkowski
Alice – Raquel Gomez

Written in 1982, PIZZA MAN is a dark yet sometimes funny play about two women who, frustrated with life, decide to take revenge on a random man to make up for the misogynistic behavior, sexism and disappointment they have experienced. When flipping through one’s little black book does not yield results, they target the man delivering them a pizza.

The play begins slowly with a solo Julie, newly unemployed after refusing sexual advances at work, binge drinking and smoking alone in the apartment she shares with Alice. Alice arrives in tears, lamenting that her married boyfriend has returned to his wife. As the roommates talk, and argue, the conversation devolves in the revenge plot, and things take a darker and violent tone.

Unsuspecting Eddie arrives with a pizza, and this is when PIZZA MAN has some of its better moments. What could have been painful and disturbing to watch is lightened up a lot by Darlene Craviotto’s dialogue, with some of the best lines and humor coming from Alice and Eddie. The Julie character is almost universally dark for the entire play, but the pacing picks up well after her first solo moments, and the production as a whole benefits from the rapport between the three actors.

- Kessa De Santis -