A Room Of My Own Play

There is a special matinee performance friday march 4 at 3.

A room of my own play.

In a room of my own playwright and director charles messina recounts growing up with his eccentric italian american family in greenwich village. It s an appropriately socially distanced state too as long as there s four square metres and a bottle of hand sanitiser within reach. Charles messina s semi autobiographical comedy a room of my own revolves around a writer who grows up in a wacky italian american family. For all its life and energy a room of my own is one of those 90 minute plays that needs an intermission and another half hour.

Very large text size on name alone a room of one s own is the perfect play for a pandemic. Wishing for his own room and an atari video game young carl shares the tiny studio in a five flight crumbling walk up apartment with his. The back room of this small home serves double duty as a play area and the pathway into the backyard. Set in a small tenement apartment in late 1970s greenwich village the play follows in the grand tradition of playwrights like neil simon who used their own early family lives as inspiration to create indelible and uniquely american broadway hits.

It s the space many have craved when stuck indoors working from home home schooling or both. Ralph macchio the karate kid dancing with the stars co stars as carl morelli a writer who reminisces about his adolescence and childhood dreams of the world outside his crowded downtown tenement. It is during the depression and since times are bad her aunt sally uncle jim and two of their sons have come to live with the eides who are more well off. Performances are tuesdays at 7 wednesdays at 3 and 7 thursdays and fridays at 8 saturdays at 2 and 8 and sundays at 2.

A room of my own by ann tatlock is such a heart wrenching story. Break out the tissues. A room of my own plays at the june havoc theater 312 west 36th street through march 13 2016.