Arrangements

Winner of the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. In the dungeon-like basement of a flower shop, a strange yet beautiful friendship blossoms between amateur slam poet Robby and obese and outspoken Donna. By charting a series of intertwined relationships, this darkly comic play explores the relationship between chaos and order, consumption and abstinence, and the modern day notion that “we are what we eat.”
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Arrangements

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  • Les Hunter:
    6 Sep. 2019
    Ken Weitzman’s ARRANGEMENTS is both genuinely funny and truly sad. Weitzman’s characters, from Robby, the trusting college dropout, to Donna, the wounded schemer suffering from the rare mental disorder pica (where you eat everything in sight), are larger than life, and also uniquely human. In this way, Weitzman’s portraits of people hurting deftly zoom into fine details (erotic fixations with candy bars, differentiation between flower arrangements, etc.) while simultaneously composing several complete and fulfilling story arcs. By the end of the play, you feel deeply for these clever, deceiving, and desperately fallible characters.

Development History

  • Reading
    ,
    Cherry Lane Theatre
    ,
    2004
  • Reading
    ,
    Atlantic Theater Company
    ,
    2004
  • Reading
    ,
    Arena Stage
    ,
    2003
  • Reading
    ,
    Williamstown Theatre Company
    ,
    2003
  • Reading
    ,
    Florida Stage
    ,
    2003
  • Reading
    ,
    Mark Taper Forum
    ,
    2002

Production History

  • Professional
    ,
    Pavement Group
    ,
    2008
  • Professional
    ,
    Atlantic Theater Company
    ,
    2005

Awards

Winner
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L. Arnold Weissberger Award
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Weissberger / Williamstown Theatre Festival
,
2003