Mary Humphrey Baldridge
GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play, directed by Elizabeth Ripley, with (left to right) Josh Martin as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Madelaine Ripley as Mary Shelley, Adam Brock as Lord Byron, Giselle Lorenze as Claire Godwin and Zach Holzman as Dr. Polidori.
The opening scene seance at Diodati
"...off-off-Broadway is most renowned as the arena of the new playwright. Learn about [Mary Humphrey Baldridge's] skills with dialogue and plot...in GENESIS...mounted with style and skill at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse," Peter Filichia, Theater Week
...the play does have a brooding intensity that not only builds to a creepy finale, but pays off intellectually as we see the idea for "Frankenstein" get patched together in Mary's mind. ...Perhaps Genesis' strongestvirtue is in showing that social stigmas can maintain a chokehold over human desires, even among the wanton leisure class. By God, it is The Real World.
This Week On Stage, NYC
"The power Baldridge evoked in the scenes of tension and love between Shelley and his wife, the macabre portrait she painted of Lord Byron and excellent characterizations of their hangers-on Polidori and Claire, contributed to the drama's popular and critical success," Eric Dawson, Performing Arts (Canada).
...the play does have a brooding intensity that not only builds to a creepy finale, but pays off intellectually as we see the idea for "Frankenstein" get patched together in Mary's mind. ...Perhaps Genesis' strongestvirtue is in showing that social stigmas can maintain a chokehold over human desires, even among the wanton leisure class. By God, it is The Real World.
This Week On Stage, NYC
"The power Baldridge evoked in the scenes of tension and love between Shelley and his wife, the macabre portrait she painted of Lord Byron and excellent characterizations of their hangers-on Polidori and Claire, contributed to the drama's popular and critical success," Eric Dawson, Performing Arts (Canada).
RUTH & ROBERT & ROBERT & RUTH, directed by Melanie Brouzes, with Dan Kern and Kim Zeglinski.
The play is a complex weaving of a relationship against the global and personal backdrop of violence. Ruth and Robert attempt to maintain a relationship that no longer makes sense in a world of violence that is encroaching more and more on their own daily lives. womennet.ca/news
This is one of the two-person plays I’ve seen in a long time that had me riveted. …because the dynamics constantly had a cat/mouse quality to it. …You’re interested in the characters and their relation to each other. …Very stark and edgy, too. Lorraine James
This is one of the two-person plays I’ve seen in a long time that had me riveted. …because the dynamics constantly had a cat/mouse quality to it. …You’re interested in the characters and their relation to each other. …Very stark and edgy, too. Lorraine James