2019

Season 13 of inspiring, essential theater

2020

Entertainment Central Pittsburgh

Hoard brings the Heat at off the WALL. To say that the feather dusters begin to fly is putting it mildly.
By the end of Hoard’s 90 minutes, both women are moved and shaken, and so is the audience.

Pittsburgh
Current

Hoard
at Off The WALL

is a well researched 'Compassionate, Dark, Thrilling Ride' through
two minds who aren’t
as different as they
think they are.

PGH In The
Round

Virginia Wall Gruenert and Erika Cuenca are unequivocally the performers two-person shows should be created for—impassioned, invested and thrilling from start to finish.

PGH Lesbian
Correspondents

This is not a neat or tidy play. It is brutal and raw with two actors whose chemistry has been well established circling around one another in an orchestrated emotional and psychological dance.

Hoard

a new play

Written by Lissa Brennan
With Erika Cuenca,
Virginia Wall Gruenert

March 6 - 7, 12 - 14, 19 - 21 @ 8:00 pm
March 8 & 15 @ 3:00 pm

Starring off the WALL productions’ Executive Artistic Director Virginia Wall Gruenert and Associate Artistic Director Erika Cuenca, local playwright Lissa Brennan has crafted a story written precisely for these two actresses.

This play is not for the faint of heart; Brennan has done her research. Both Viv and Claire have emotional skeletons in their closets, though some are more visible than others. Viv’s ‘things’ in her house serve to protect her just as the 'walls' in Claire's heart. Each woman is wounded, guarding her pain, neither wishing to reveal it until it is unwillingly pried out of her fingers.

Brennan skillfully unravels the story of these two strangers with wit, compassion and venom.

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Etty

Adapted and performed by
Susan Stein

May 7, 8 & 9 at 8:00 pm

Etty Hillesum’s life ended at Auschwitz when she was only 29 years old. In the play, Etty, drawn entirely from Hillesum’s diaries and letters of 1941 to 1943, we meet a remarkable young Dutch woman: insightful, determined, poetic, sensual.

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1943 - Grist From The Mill

A new play created and performed by

Lissa Brennan

Postponed.
new dates will be announced when available

Men go to war.

Women go to work.

Horses, airplanes, spells, stars,

and as always,

mills and murder.

March

April

May

Hoard

03/06 - 03/21/20

The story of a woman whose life and home are cluttered by past trauma, and the young woman who attempts to rescue her, and perhaps herself,in the healing process.

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1943 - Grist from..

04/24 - 04/25/20

A new play created and performed
by Lissa Brennan.

Men go to WAR, Women go to WORK.

Horses, airplanes, spells, stars,

and as always,mills and murder.

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Etty

05/07 - 05/09/20

Etty Hillesum's life ended at Auschwitz when she was only 29 years old. We meet a remarkable young dutch woman, insightful, determined, poetic, sensual...

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May

June

August