The Baltimore Waltz

by Paula Vogel Narrated by Jenny Bacon, Christopher Donahue, Jerry Saslow

Overview

A darkly satirical play written at the height of the AIDS crisis. As a young woman is diagnosed with a mysterious new illness, she and her beloved brother flee to Europe in search of a cure ... and to escape the pain and uncertainty of the future.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jenny Bacon, Christopher Donahue and Jerry Saslow.

Editorial Reviews

MAY 2015 - AudioFile

With droll understatement and easy, sly humor, Jenny Bacon and Jerry Saslow shine in this freewheeling comic one-act as a sister and brother who suddenly drop everything to travel to Europe. They’re in search of a cure for the sister’s terminal illness, ATD (Acquired Toilet Disease), which she contracted while teaching elementary school. This Obie Award winner was recorded live before an appreciative audience at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and employs a number of audio/radio-theater techniques such as quick scene changes, musical vignettes, and hilarious voice-over descriptions, asides, and observations. Paula Vogel wrote this jagged and seriously funny piece in reaction to her brother’s death of AIDS in 1988. It’s contemporary theater heard at its best and most vital. B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine

NY Times

...a crazy-quilt patchwork of hyperventilating language, erotic jokes, movie kitsch and medical nightmare...that spins before the audience in Viennese waltz time, replete with a dizzying fall.

Hollywood Reporter

...an immensely likable winning comedy-drama...

MAY 2015 - AudioFile

With droll understatement and easy, sly humor, Jenny Bacon and Jerry Saslow shine in this freewheeling comic one-act as a sister and brother who suddenly drop everything to travel to Europe. They’re in search of a cure for the sister’s terminal illness, ATD (Acquired Toilet Disease), which she contracted while teaching elementary school. This Obie Award winner was recorded live before an appreciative audience at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and employs a number of audio/radio-theater techniques such as quick scene changes, musical vignettes, and hilarious voice-over descriptions, asides, and observations. Paula Vogel wrote this jagged and seriously funny piece in reaction to her brother’s death of AIDS in 1988. It’s contemporary theater heard at its best and most vital. B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170335718
Publisher:	L.A. Theatre Works
Publication date:	02/15/2015
Edition description:	Unabridged

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