a solo play by Sally Lambert
starring Cheryl King
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Cheryl King delivers a raw and intimate account of Sally Lambert’s life journey, from her days as a young child and prodigy musician, to the loves of her life, to her diagnosis of cancer, to her battle with health insurance and treatment, and to ultimately, her death. Although the playwright calls it an “angel of death,” the doctor referred to her malignant tumor as the size of a “Grapefruit,” and she was appalled when the Oncologist’s first question was, “Who is your insurer?”
– from BroadwayWorld.com
“Cheryl King is a brilliant actress, raw and inspiring, who truly has a passion for this project.”
– Christina Mancuso, BroadwayWorld.com
“Nuanced, constantly compelling, and ultimately very moving.”
– Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
“This tiny tornado of a play lasts only 60 minutes, but spans a lifetime. This is a comedy about tragedy, pulled off brilliantly.”
– Karen D’Onofrio- Electronic Link Journey.com
Cheryl King
Performer
Cheryl King is an actor/writer/director/coach, and creator/director of Stage Left Studio, formerly of NYC. She currently lives in Santa Rosa, CA and produces programming there for The California Theater, including her acclaimed Forbidden Kiss LIVE series. Her most recent stage work was in Joe Hutcheson’s Mother Code, in Santa Rosa and Sacramento, CA. During the 10 years she ran her Midtown Manhattan theater, she created and produced long-running theater festivals, such as the LGBTQ-focused Left Out Festival, and the Women at Work Festival. She won a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in NYC, for her Gender Project in 2015. Described as the “matriarch of the Off-Off Broadway Solo Show scene” in the NYT, she has directed/developed more than 80 solo shows, including Drama-Desk Award-nominees. She has written several plays. Cheryl teaches improvisation, acting and writing on a weekly basis in person and on Zoom.
www.stageleftstudio.net
Theresa Gambacorta
Director
Theresa Gambacorta (AEA, SAG) has worked in New York as a commercial actress, voice-over artist, director, playwright, and producer for over sixteen years. Her journey with solo performance began in 2004 with her first solo play, La Magnani!, about the life of Italian film star, Anna Magnani, the first foreign actress to win the academy award in 1956. Gambacorta believes solo work is one of the most exciting and rewarding ways an actor can empower himself or herself creatively, intellectually and spiritually. She has since gone on to write two more full-length solo plays, Breaking the Glass and The Vegas Project (directed by Cheryl King), both produced at Stage Left Studio and is deeply committed to helping other actor’s realize their solo performance dreams. Most recently, she has guided the development process and/or directed the plays of Jay Alvarez, Marlene Nichols, Cheryl King, and Chiara Montalto’s Emergency Used Candles. She has an M.A. in Educational Theatre from NYU and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
Sally Lambert
Playwright
Sally Lambert was born in Southern Kentucky where she started singing at three years old and reading music not that many years later. Surrounding herself with the work of people with names such as Leontyne, Callas, Pavarotti, Verdi, Strauss, Shostakovich, Mozart and Mahler, she began plotting her escape to New York where she met her man, fell in love with his brother, was diagnosed with cancer, told she must wait until her health insurance kicked in before she could be treated, waited for that to happen, was then informed it was too late to be saved, wrote this play about the experience of being alive on this earth and then succumbed to the cancer. Grapefruit is an almost other-worldly third-eye assessment of the human condition
Take a big bite of GRAPEFRUIT!
Bring this amazing play to your theatre. Bookings available across the United States and Canada. Reduced rates available in the state of California.
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