Samantha Inside Out: Stage Reading

Written by Marisa Smith

Directed by Theresa Rebeck

Starring Jayne Atkinson

May 30 

SAMANTHA INSIDE OUT, a new one-woman show written by Marisa Smith (The Gift of the Magi: A Modern Adaptation, Venus Rising, Mad Love, Sex and Other Disturbances), directed by Pulitzer Prize finalist Theresa Rebeck (most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time, Omnium Gatherum, Seminar, Spike Heels, Bernhardt/Hamlet), and starring TONY Nominated Jayne Atkinson (Broadway: The Rainmaker and Enchanted April TV: Madam Secretary, The Walking Dead, House of Cards) as part of Shaker Bridge’s commitment to developing new work. 

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Samantha, a woman of a certain age has had it—with her life, her marriage, modern life, everything. She’s a high school English teacher, mother of grown twins and wife of Eliot, a cruel, pompous philanderer. After a humiliating and violent encounter with her husband, Samantha flees a stultifying Christmas party at the President of the College’s house. She ends up in the host’s teenage daughter’s cluttered room on the third floor. Amid the chaos Samantha reviews the wreckage of her life and reveals her truth and her secrets out loud. By doing so Samantha charts a new course for herself. It’s never too late to start again.

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FREE for Shaker Bridge subscription holders

$10 for the general public.​