Now residing in Philadelphia, Joy Cutler started writing plays while she was living on and off in Berlin from 1988 to 1992. Her first play “The Sensuous Cadaver” was an early Berlin Play Actors production. She then started the Out to Lunch Theater Company with Simon Newby and Günther Grosser and her subsequent plays were performed at the former Friends of Italian Opera- now known as English Theatre Berlin. The success of her early plays was a major influence in the forming of English Theatre Berlin and it is with great pleasure that we present her new work in progress. Joy invites you to join us for this reading and welcomes your feedback.
Quinn - The high powered maniacal energy of an ER hospital unit is the back drop for this hospital farce complete with a cast of talking corpses, persistent patients, and a typically cynical, sleep deprived staff. The reappearing yet evasive ghost of his sister plagues Quinn, a young doctor with a vivid imagination. It seems he needs to come to terms with her death which happened ten years ago. His repressed emotions start to play havoc in his subconscious and after being transported into a female patient’s morphine dream, his defense mechanisms begin to rapidly deteriorate.
“The landscape of a vagina has never been described in quite this way before”