Productions

Welcome to Harbor Hill     ...the crumbling Newport mansion where "Big" and "Little" Alice protect, torment, lie and cling to each other. Once two glamorous members of America's privileged class, they now face possible eviction by the Board of Health.

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A Few Small Repairs By David Robson     Directed by William Roudebush March 30 - April 22, 2007 Loosely based on the true, bizarre life of mother and daughter Big and Little Edie Beale, this dark comedy lives somewhere between the longings, loves and delusions of THE THREE SISTERS and SUNSET BOULEVARD. Cast: Gene D' Alessandro (QUINTON) Hazel Bowers (BIG ALICE) Foster Cronin (TEDDY) Arnold Kendall (MR. BURTON) Jerry Puma (HANK CLYMER) Sonja Robson (LITTLE ALICE) and Len Webb (GRANVILLE)

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A Few Small Repairs Review Quotes

"A charming and moving play by David Robson... A Few Small Repairs creates, in tiny increments, both admiration and pathos for Little Alice, this peculiar, hairless, middle-aged daughter who, with her "low threshold for guilt" finds her life has vanished in devotion to her demented mother... And not only is the play good, but it provides a rare opportunity to see two fine, underemployed local actors of great talent and courage."

--Philadelphia Inquirer

"Great elegance and wit and feeling... so well written... a wonderful evening. (Robson has) considerable talent and skill... a real writer for the theatre."

--Austin Pendleton, author of Orson's Shadow

"Terrific performances by Hazel Bowers and Sonja Robson."

--Philadelphia Inquirer

"Bowers is superb."

--Chestnut Hill Local

"Sonja Robson is excruciatingly captivating."

--Philly Theatre Review

"The supporting cast is fine. Note especially the strong Foster Cronin as the handyman Teddy, Jerry Puma as a local cop, and Len Webb as the son of the family's old gardener."

--Chestnut Hill Local

"A Few Small Repairs packs a wallop. Robson has a keen eye and ear for life's caprices, and for pain sometimes disguised as humor... the audience is left to ponder fortune and the fall from grace, and to reflect on what 'neglect' really means."

--Central Record

"A Few Small Repairs was so much like going to these abandoned places I love. It was a tragic and bizarre tale wrapped in a comedic gown. Go see it on stage if you have a chance."

--Laura Kicey, Philadelphia blogger