Fuddy Meers

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Kimberly Akimbo author David Lindsay-Abaire introduces Claire, who has a rare form of amnesia that erases her memory whenever she goes to sleep. This morning (like all mornings) she wakes up a blank slate. Her chipper husband comes in with coffee, explains her condition, hands her a book filled with all sorts of essential information, and he disappears into the shower. Then a limping, lisping, half blind, half deaf man in a ski mask pops out from under her bed and claims to be her brother – there to save her from her awful husband. Claire’s book of info is quickly discarded, and she’s hustled off to the country house of her mother, a recent stroke victim whose speech has been reduced to utter gibberish. A dimwitted thug, another kidnapped person, a foul-mouthed hand puppet and a perpetually stoned teenager round out the cast in this twist and turn funhouse plot – all bringing Claire closer to revealing her past life and everything she thought she’d forgotten.