Writer/performer Megan Griswold brings her hilarious one-woman show Fix It: A Comedy about Love, Self-Help and the Recovery from Both to Stage Left Studio, located at 348 West 37th Street, on Friday, July 27th as part of the Eighth Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival. Directed by Leah Davidson Krvloff and Pam DeVore, the show is written by Griswold and Pam Houston and edited by Houston and Tony Award-winner Spencer Kayden.
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n Fix It, the 38-year-old Griswold, a former journalist, combines serious introspection with laugh-out-loud comedy. When faced with the betrayal of her most intimate relationship, she turns to a huge array of alternative therapies ranging from the nutty to legitimate. Fix It draws on Griswold's own admittedly dogged attempts to mend a relationship that would send most people running for cover. It led her to clock more than 10,000 hours of training and therapy including traditional talk therapy, meditation, yoga, fasting, traditional Chinese medicine, rolfing, classical homeopathy, EMDR (for the uninitiated, that's eye movement desensitization reprogramming) and more.
"When you work this hard to hold it all together, you find a lot of things to laugh about," says Griswold, who holds both an acupuncture license and a graduate degree from Yale. "Like a self-help student of sorts, if it's out there, I've probably tried it -- everything from the softer stuff -- acupuncture and yoga, which I love -- to the less familiar somatic repatterning, plant spirit medicine and vipassana meditation."
Indeed, rather than being a self-indulgent rationalization, Fix It take the audience on a journey which is poignant, personal and coupled with humor and wisdom. Fix It's 2006 premiere in Boulder, Colo., earned big laughs for Griswold's funny and self-deprecating observations about a lifetime of therapy and self-help.
About the Show
Running through August 2nd, Fix It will be performed at Stage Left Studio, located at 348 West 37th Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues) on the Fifth Floor. Show times are Friday, July 27th at 8:30pm, Wednesday, August 1st at 8:30pm, Saturday, July 28th at 6:00pm, Thursday, August 2nd at 6:30pm, Sunday, July 29th at 2:00pm & 6:45pm. Tickets are $18.00, $15.00 for students and seniors. Running time for the show is approximately 80 Minutes.