STITCHES
CAST: 1 M
RUN TIME: 1 HOUR
Adapted from David Small's memoir of the same name, Stitches, takes place in Small's studio apartment as he illustrates his life, from tumultuous childhood to acclaimed artist, before the audience's eyes.
By incorporating other mediums such as sketching, painting, chalk, and shadow puppetry, Small revisits his tortured childhood, a botched surgery that left him virtually mute, his estranged relationship with his mother, and how his running away from home eventually led to becoming a Yale graduate and National Book Award Finalist.
Stitches is a show about loneliness, perseverance, family dysfunction, and the importance of art; Quite literally giving the voiceless an ability to speak.
*Actor plays a total of six characters
Link to Graphic Novel Here!
STITCHES was dubbed "theatre in the now!" Read Zinzer's Spotlight On interview here!
*Zinzer went by "Luke" at the time of production
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2015
Luke stands with the real David Small, opening night.