Plays -- T. L. C.

About the play . . .

T. L. C. is a realistic play in five scenes. EVELYN COLEMAN lives in an apartment somewhere between Los Angeles and San Diego. She calls herself career health care professional; you or I might call her a nurse. She can be sweet, she can be tough. Her sense of humor has gotten her through as many scrapes as her tenacity. But she is first of all a mother who has been through a lot and has seen her child, Charlie, survive. But something may have happened, and she's worried. She's trying to change her life, but she's waiting for his call. And then the phone rings . . . A searing new psychological thriller. World premiere at the 10th Anniversary New York International Fringe Festival. Click here to read some scenes from T. L. C.

About This Production . . .

Margaret Daly (Evelyn Coleman). New York debut. Now appearing in her Off-Broadway debut in The Keen Company's Theopholus North. National Tour: The Importance of Being Earnest (directed by Sir Peter Hall). Regional: The Time of Your Life (directed by Tina Landau), A Mother (world première), Juno and the Paycock, A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theatre); Present Laughter, Hedda Gabler (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The Sea Gull, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); The House of Blue Leaves, Rhinoceros (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Hay Fever, Eleemosynary, The Golden Age, Relative Values (The Chamber Theater); Spinning Into Butter (TheatreWorks); Kissing the Witch (world première/Magic Theatre). Television: “Nash Bridges,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”

Marc Silberschatz (Director/Producer) is the founder and Artistic Director of Twenty Feet Productions, where he directed 11 full productions through two seasons, including the critically acclaimed eight-show repertory, Wars of the Roses, in which he also appeared as Henry V and Henry VI. Additionally, he is the Associate Artistic Director and a Resident Actor for the York Shakespeare Company and a Resident Director for the Instant Shakespeare Company. Since the establishment of Twenty Feet Productions in 2003, he has also directed 15 staged readings, worked on other productions and staged readings as an assistant director, fight choreographer, dramaturge, and actor. Twenty Feet Productions' third season, beginning October 2006, will offer a production of Jeffery Hatcher's adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw at the Red Room Theatre.

Robert Moulthrop (Playwright). His play Half Life, one of a handful of dramas accepted at the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival, received the Fringe award for Outstanding Playwriting, was hailed in New York Magazine as "brilliant, the best written and acted show at The Fringe," and was invited to extend its run at the Flea Theatre. T.L.C. is his second play in two years to be accepted into the Fringe. Both Half Life and his three-person comedy Who Cares are under consideration by theatres in the U.S. and abroad. Something Else, a series of interconnected monologues for one actress, received its first public reading in May 2006. Where We Are Now, a series of 11 interconnected plays on the effect of the Patriot Act on individuals and their freedoms, received its first public reading in June 2006.