cityscrape
by sophie mcintosh
“The partnership between Goodheart and McIntosh epitomizes what makes this play so successful… McIntosh’s script meets director Nina Goodheart’s vision in a sublime way: the foreshadowing of mental disorder and addiction, of possession and implosion, begins from the very moment we meet these two ladies. Whether it’s Kitt’s migration to the bar cart or Kat’s growing pile of carrots, the seeds of disaster are planted with masterful understatement. As an audience, one’s subconscious knows exactly where this train is headed, and it makes the wreck all the more wrenching… All in all, McIntosh and Goodheart’s inaugural piece is a heart-clenching joy.”
Provocative, hilarious, and unexpectedly tender, cityscrape is a new play that dares to ask: does sharing a vibrator collection make you officially co-dependent? Trapped inside the ticking time bomb of their twenties, roommates Kitt and Kat are willing to do almost anything for their art, even if it means destroying the friendship that keeps them afloat. cityscrape is a razor-sharp excavation of what it means to truly be “seen” by another person — and what happens if the version of ourselves that’s reflected back is an egocentric monster.
cityscrape was presented as an Equity Showcase at Arts on Site, 12 St. Marks Place, New York, NY, 10003. * Denotes member of Actors’ Equity.
CAST
Kitt: Mia Fowler
Eileen: Marianna Gailus
Kat: Simone Policano
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Nina Goodheart
Producer: Good Apples Collective and Gillian Fu
Stage Manager: C. Lee
Lighting Designer: Paige Seber
Costume Designer: Saawan Tiwari
Scenic & Props Designer: RED GUHDE
Sound Designer: Cora Cicala
Production Manager: Sydney Raine Garick
Press & Marketing Director: Liv Rhodes
Intimacy & Fight Choreographer: Lauren Kiele DeLeon
Assistant Director: Willow Funkhouser
Assistant Stage Manager: Ruth Gershberg
Production Assistant: Sarah Groustra
“cityscrape marks the engrossing debut production from [Sophie] McIntosh and director Nina Goodheart's Good Apples Collective… [It] casts a canny but empathetic eye on how friends grow apart and together… Shifts from this very lived-in living space to the outdoors, primarily the building's rooftop, are accomplished via some cleverly minimalist illumination of a suggested city skyline. As time moves on, however, tracked by the changing pages of a wall calendar (as well as some fantastic use of music during scene transitions)… Kitt and Kat begin to embody the closeness that conjoining their character names would imply.”
