Albany Civic Theater is excited to present Fuddy Meers, written by David Lindsey-Abaire and directed by Teresa Storti. The play opens Friday, December 5 (preview, pay what you will night 12/4), and runs for 3 weekends. Fri-Sat@7:30 and Sun@3:00 through December 21, 2025.
Fuddy Meers is a dark comedy in which the central character, Claire, has a rare form of psychogenic amnesia that erases her memory whenever she goes to sleep. Every morning, she wakes up with a blank slate. Every morning her chipper husband shows her a book containing essential information to start her day. This morning, after he leaves the room, a limping, lisping, half blind, half deaf man in a ski mask pops out from under her bed. He claims to be her brother and here to save her, and she’s hustled off to the country home of her mother, a recent stroke victim whose speech has been reduced to gibberish. The journey becomes more complicated when even more quirky friends, family, and complete strangers enter the scene, including a foul-mouthed puppet.
Every twist and turn in this fun-house plot brings Claire closer to revealing her past life and everything she thought she had forgotten. It’s one harrowing and hilarious turn after another on this roller coaster ride of an amnesiac trying to decipher her fractured life. This poignant and brutal comedy traces one woman’s attempt to regain her memory while surrounded by a curio-cabinet of alarmingly bizarre characters.
The cast for Fuddy Meers is:
Amanda Condon as Clair
Gregor Wynnyczuk as Richard
Dominic Tillou as Kenny
Eric-Jon Tasker as Limping Man
Jackie DeGiorgis as Gertie
Alex Headley as Millet
Isabelle McKeon as Heidi
Tickets are available now at albanycivictheater.org or by calling 518-462-1297
For further information, please feel free to contact Barbara Davis at bdd1101@gmail.com.