Starring Pamela Gaye Walker
October 28 at 8:30 pm
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A highly sensitive actress, Penelope, desperately wants to influence her six-year-old granddaughter, Viola. Viola must know Pen better than she knew her own granny. Penelope is fed up with the multitudinous obstacles toward authenticity – the pressure to play the dutiful wife, others wanting her job, getting bullied backstage; blocking her want to perform, the only thing she truly loved to do.
When Viola asks, “What do you want to be when you gwow up, Gwammy?”. Penelope scrambles to un-erase her theatrical history that was overshadowed by her husband’s Oscar winning success. She also launches into an investigation of her granny’s life, epigenetics, and matrilineal trauma. The penultimate story is of Pen’s funny, yet heartbreaking, chaotic childhood, which sets her on a life-long quest to beat her brothers at the game of life.
Brilliant wise-crone spirits, including painter Georgia O’Keeffe, a character Penelope played on stage for many years, shows up as a ghost of her theatrical past. Penelope wisely reviews the trials and triumphs of her full life as a wife, mother, and actress, resolving to bring hope to Viola and all next gen creatives.
I arrived by accident on St Patrick’s Day in 1989 and never left. After years of wandering the earth, I finally found a home. These songs are a tribute to my dearest love, New York City!
Pamela Gaye Walker – Writer, Director, Producer
Kathy Rose – Production Manager/ Stage Manager
John Walker – Managing Director
UNITED SOLO* is the world’s largest solo theatre festival. For twenty seasons, it has presented the very best in solo performance from around the globe. Founded by Omar Sangare with the mission of uniting a diverse community of artists passionate about storytelling in all its forms, the festival has grown into an internationally recognized platform for singular voices. From its home base at Theatre Row in the heart of New York City’s Theatre District, United Solo has presented over 2,000 productions. With festivals held each fall and spring, it continues to champion both emerging and established artists, bringing powerful and distinctive stories to audiences in New York City and beyond.
