Word: sarnat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is no real plot. The main character, Angela (Mimi Schultz) is a bored nine-to-fiver with an active fantasy life. Her fantasies, of a grass skirted shaman (Jon Shanker), of a gourmet-loving CIA agent (Michael Montoya), of Angela's mother (Zoe Sarnat) in a space-suit and of a liaison between the delivery boy (Damien Reynolds) and Angela's gay coworker (Neil Farnsworth) make up the bulk of the play's activity. The rest of the play features Angela slumped lifelessly at her desk or in bed while a voice-over drones on about her unfulfilling life...
...relatives who Nella turns to for shelter are equally unique. Georgia, played at full throttle by Zoe Sarnat, is a white-trash-from-hell maniac, who constantly deflects attention away from the rivet in her head and towards the destitute houseguests. Her husband, Howard, (Alex Haseltine) is even more over...
...search for an omnipotent but benevolent God is also fleetingly touched upon during the play, when Sarnat declares: "If there is a higher power, my sister would not be an idiot and I would not be starving to death...
...ragged sisters, one "Hungry" (Zoe Sarnat) and the other an "Idiot" (Andrea Thome), represent the evils of poverty. Sarnat convincingly portrays a "poor, starving orphan waif" who wallows in self-pity before she finds...