THE ONOMATOPOEIA THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS
“A Piece of my Heart”
by Shirley Lauro
Oct 20 – Nov. 11

FINALIST! The Susan Blackburn Prize

WINNER! The Barbara Deming Prize for Women Playwrights

WINNER! The Kittredge Foundation Award

The true story of six women sent to Vietnam and their struggle to make sense of a war that irrevocably changed them and a nation that shunned them. A work with the music and soul of a tumultuous era in our history.

Playwright Shirley Lauro took her inspiration from an oral history compiled by Keith Walker, which covers the stories of 26 women who served in Vietnam.

WHERE:

Gene Frankel Theatre
24 Bond Street
Between Lafayette Street & Bowery
New York, NY 10012
212-777-1767

TICKETS:

General Admission: $30
Student/Senior: $15
Students must have Student ID / Seniors: Age 65+

CAST:

Molly-Ann Nordin* as MARTHA

Eliza McKelway as MARYJO

Annabelle Mayock as SISSY

Isabel Lodge as WHITNEY

Vanessa Rappa as LEEANN

Jeaniene Green as STEELE

Justy Kosek* as THE AMERICAN MEN #1

Marcus Kirlew as THE AMERICAN MEN #2

CREATIVE:

DIRECTOR
Thomas R. Gordon

STAGE MANAGER
Julia Brunner

SET DESIGN
Kiah Kayser

LIGHT DESIGN
TBA

COSTUME DESIGN
Al Malonga

Produced by the Onomatopoeia Theatre Company and directed by Thomas R. Gordon, Shirley Lauro’s award-winning play A Piece of My Heart about six women serving in the Vietnam War, is playing in the East Village from now until, aptly, Veterans Day. The Vietnam Veterans Association recently named A Piece of My Heart “the most enduring play on Vietnam in the nation.” Lauro’s work, inspired by Keith Walk’s oral compilation of 26 women’s memoirs of serving in the Vietnam War, centers around six different women, five of whom are nurses and one who is a singer sent to entertain the troops as part of the USO. The play shows each woman right before she enters her service and throughout the Vietnam War in Act 1, and her life afterwards in Act 2. Indeed, each act could have been a play unto itself, there was so much detail to take in. Martha (Molly-Ann Nordin), Sissy (Annabelle Mayock), Whitney (Isabel Lodge), LeeAnn (Vanessa Rappa) and Steele (Jeaniene Green) are the nurses, only one (Green) of whom has had any work or real life experience before coming to Vietnam. LeeAnn in particular is blindsided when she realizes she has been sent to Vietnam when she requested Hawaii (where everyone looks …Read more