"It’s hard not to be endeared by the silvery-eyed, golden-haired, and statuesque Charlotte Bydwell as she freaks out over her life in her delightful, autobiographical one-woman show, Woman of Leisure and Panic [...]" (Show Business Weekly)
"She has the madcap talent to make us see anew an infantilizing and manic trend in our culture that had begun to feel passé."
(DYI Dancer)
WOMAN OF LEISURE AND PANIC
A whimsical combination of dance and theatre, WOMAN OF LEISURE AND PANIC depicts a young woman’s quest to find balance in a life where every achievement brings further uncertainty. It finds humor in the heroine’s struggle to remain financially stable, creatively productive, physically fit, romantically satisfied, and still standing.
WOMAN OF LEISURE AND PANIC premiered at 9th Space (P.S. 122) in May 2011 as part of the 8th Annual soloNOVA Festival and was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Performance Art Production. After seeing a subsequent performance at the Center for Performance Research, Heber Villergas translated the work into Spanish and it was produced in Mexico by an all new cast and crew. The show returned to NYC for a run at the 2013 International Fringe Festival. We were honored with FOUR STARS and Critic's Pick in TimeOUT NYC. Check out some of the reviews below:
TimeOUT NYC
nytheatre.com
Informal Floor
Most recent performance included a three-day run in Anita's Way (an outdoor performance space between 42nd and 43rd St. in Times Square) curated by chashama. The show also toured to Philadelphia to be part of the 2016 First Person Arts Festival.
Watch the trailer
More details, pics and videos are available at:
www.leisureandpanic.com
A whimsical combination of dance and theatre, WOMAN OF LEISURE AND PANIC depicts a young woman’s quest to find balance in a life where every achievement brings further uncertainty. It finds humor in the heroine’s struggle to remain financially stable, creatively productive, physically fit, romantically satisfied, and still standing.
WOMAN OF LEISURE AND PANIC premiered at 9th Space (P.S. 122) in May 2011 as part of the 8th Annual soloNOVA Festival and was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Performance Art Production. After seeing a subsequent performance at the Center for Performance Research, Heber Villergas translated the work into Spanish and it was produced in Mexico by an all new cast and crew. The show returned to NYC for a run at the 2013 International Fringe Festival. We were honored with FOUR STARS and Critic's Pick in TimeOUT NYC. Check out some of the reviews below:
TimeOUT NYC
nytheatre.com
Informal Floor
Most recent performance included a three-day run in Anita's Way (an outdoor performance space between 42nd and 43rd St. in Times Square) curated by chashama. The show also toured to Philadelphia to be part of the 2016 First Person Arts Festival.
Watch the trailer
More details, pics and videos are available at:
www.leisureandpanic.com
During our fringeNYC run, one of our incredible press pictures by Matt Sundin was featured in TimeOut NYC as Photo of the Week!