Edward O’Connell died twelve years ago, at the age of seventy-three, and left behind a box containing twenty-seven objects: among them, a 1940 Chevrolet owner’s manual, a one-eared Mr. Potato Head, a Nader/LaDuke campaign button, and a heavily annotated copy of The Catcher in the Rye. Each object tells a story. Audience members sit around a table, on which the objects lie, and choose the order in which the stories are told by Schmidt. Each night, Edward’s life is reconstructed anew.

Written & performed by Ed Schmidt

Edward plays in various bookstores around Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. Please visit website for locations & dates.

EDWARD arrives in New York after a sold-out, sixteen-performance run in Los Angeles. Before its LA engagement, EDWARD played 40 sold-out performances in private homes across New York City, playing nightly for intimate audiences of 10 to 25 people. The full schedule will be announced shortly.

Schmidt’s work has earned critical acclaim. His previous solo play The Last Supper was praised by The New York Times, which wrote, “You should be prepared to have your every expectation of theater subverted.” The New Yorker raved, “I’d like to recommend it to every single person I’ve ever met,” and New York Magazine called it “one-of-a-kind theater you don’t want to miss.”