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Kimberly Akimbo

written by David Lindsay-Abaire
directed by Stephanie Cotton-Snell

Friday June 13 @7pm
Saturday June 14 @2pm & 7pm


260 Sumner Street | East Boston MA 02128

Please note this production contains some adult language. Please read more details below.

For any questions regarding tickets, please email our Box Office at boxoffice@eastbostonplayhouse.org

about our production

The play that inspired the Tony Award winning musical, is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition causing her body to age faster than it should. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and, most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love.

 

Please note this production contains some adult language.

“The Comedy of the Year. A haunting and hilarious new play. Mr. Lindsay-Abaire is an expert at tweaking, skewing and finally inverting established formulas. His plays tend to slide right out of predetermined pigeonholes. KIMBERLY AKIMBO is at once a shrewd satire, a black comedy and a heartbreaking study of how time wounds everyone.” —The New York Times.

 

“A zany, disturbing and strangely affecting comedy. It’s a bit of youthful happiness unlike any other.” —Associated Press.

 

“I was bowled over by the singular theatricality of David Lindsay-Abaire’s KIMBERLY AKIMBO. The way this harrowing and hilarious work continuously shifts from satire to black comedy to realism could never work anywhere else…theatre at its most original.” —NY 1.

 

“A wacky, touching and totally charming dark comedy that gives a whole new meaning to 'coming of age story.'” —New York Daily News.

 

“A breezy, foulmouthed, fleet-footed, warmhearted comedy. There have been many dark comedies about dysfunctional families, but this is one of the funniest.” —Los Angeles Times.

cast & crew

KIMBERLY - Avonne Thomson

BUDDY - Josh Teale

PATTIE - Javiera Lagunas-Álvarez

JEFF - Jeremy Arroyo

DEBRA - Christina Lonardo

DIRECTOR - Stephanie Cotton-Snell

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - Anthony J. Internicola

COSTUMES & PROPS DESIGNER - Mary Cole

COSTUMES & PROPS ASSISTANT - Rita LaSerra

STAGE CREW - Marcela Jaramillo

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