Melancholy, a Comedy

Sara Felder – juggler, theater artist and trickster -- probes the dark corners of mental illness in this radical solo comedy about Abraham Lincoln, a woman on the bus, and the civil war within ourselves.

Written & performed by Sara Felder
Directed by David O’Connor

Melancholy, a Comedy collages comic monologues, circus routines, video projections and image/object work to tell the stories of two people who lived with depression and mental illness.  In time for the bicentennial year of Lincoln's birth, Felder's play probes Abraham Lincoln's life-long battle with his own melancholia and how the man known for uniting a divided country, worked just as hard to unite the disparate parts of himself.  And she also tells the story of Amy, a woman she met on the bus one day in the rain.  A beautiful, campy, poignant, and funny work, "Melancholy" is ultimately the redemptive and ridiculous story of personal liberation.


Melancholy, a Comedy was made possible in part by a grant from the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts.

 

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