By Edward Einhorn
Directed by Edward Einhorn
January 2006
at Theater 5 in New York
Part of the NEUROfest
PRODUCTION TEAM:
Original Music: William Niederkorn
Set/Lighting Design: Alex Senchak
Costume Designer: Carla Gant
Stage Manager: Courtney Sweeting
Assistant Stage Manager: Jodi Lynn Katz
ACTORS:
Peter Bean*
Josephine Cashman*
Uma Incrocci*
Nancy Nagrant
Ken Simon
Maxwell Zener
*Member of Actors Equity Association
Linguish posits a disease which causes aphasia, the neurological disorder that takes away one's ability to use language. Four relative strangers are among the first to be affected, and are thrown together in quarantine. As the disease affects them, they are forced to try to find new ways to communicate. In Strangers a man and a woman are in what seems to be a waiting room. Is it a doctor's waiting room? If so, what's wrong?
OTHER PRODUCTIONS:
Strangers & Linguish was presented at the American Academy of Neurology's Annual conference in Chicago, IL in March 2007. The cast and crew were the same as above.
Linguish was originally presented at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center as part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 1997 with the following cast and production team:
Director: Alexander Harrington
Producer: David A. Einhorn
Stage Manager: Molly Hunt
Man: Peter Brown
Sandy: Jennifer Chudy
John: Dominic Cuskern
Michael: Christopher Gabriel
Beth: Erin Kelley
Artwork by R. Keith Rugg