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Tin Church
Inspired by recurring nightmares and an old Tin Church, Parrish weaves a sultry southern spell that begs the question, can the wheel of generational trauma ever truly stop spinning? Or are families destined to repeat life's tragedies again and again?
The Magnolia smells sweet on the evening breeze, and then it falls and sours, like a secret kept too long.
Tin Church is an unsettling, Southern Gothic exploration of generational trauma and the secrets families keep. The dream and waking world collide in this intensely dark comedy where demons come out to play in the low country south.
Mary (Marguerite Stimpson) is the oldest of three sisters. It seems she
has escaped her small southern town and the monotony of it all for the
big city life.
Mildred (Virginia Wall Gruenert), her mother, has a successful marriage, a big family and an even larger front porch. She spends her days stirring up the sweet tea and gossip.
Younger sisters Linda ( Christina Perry) and Sue (Lilly Tobin) are well woven into the intricate quilt of secrets this family keeps. One remembers. The other spends her days and nights trying to forget.
Through a maze of memories, letters, dreams and the waking world, Tin Church takes us on a thrilling psychological exploration of things unsaid. Is Mildred as perfect as she insists? Did Mary truly escape after all?
what is the secret that binds them?
Creator - Director
Robyne Parrish
Born in Ohio and raised in the Carolinas, Parrish has lived and worked as an Actor/Director/Playwright in NYC for the better part of twenty years. This is her first commissioned play and her first full length world premiere. Parrish and Off the Wall have a storied past, collaborating on multiple projects, notably Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis, Andrea Lepcio's Looking for the Pony, and The Zero Hour by Madeline George. Parrish cites she's been greatly influenced by playwrights Williams, Letts, McNally, Nottage, Shepard and Shanley, "I have a great deal of admiration for Shanley and have since my college years. I'd say Shanley was instrumental in making my childhood desire to be in New York a reality, by bringing the community into focus and allowing his characters to take huge risks and speak deep secret truths. As Actor/Playwrights, Tracy Letts and Sam Shepard always inspired me to embrace the multi-hyphenate within. They wrote rich and deeply emotional characters, like Nottage and McNally. And of course, Williams, a prolific southern Playwright who was known for using his familial relationships as inspiration for his storytelling."
Meet The Cast
THE
TEAM
Producers
off the WALL Hans H. Gruenert
Wall Stageworks Erika Cuenca
ViVa Holding Juliette Louste
Amelia Heastings - SM
Alex Magallanes - ASM
Marie Laster - Scenic Designer
Juliette Louste - Lighting Designer
Farid Vargas - Sound Designer
Adia Victoria - Original Music/composition
Jamibeth Margolis - Casting Director
Katie Rosin (Kampfire) - Publicity
Laura Irene Young - Marketing
Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon - Graphic Design