FUSION Theatre Company presents: ONE FLEA SPARE

FUSION Theatre Company is thrilled to present ONE FLEA SPARE by Naomi Wallace. The cast features Jacqueline Reid (Darcy Snelgrave), David Sinkus (William Snelgrave), Matthew Van Wettering (Kabe), and Jayce Ross (Morse). We also welcome Arron Shiver (Bunce) back to the boards since his turn as Stanley in FUSION’s 2003 production of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. FUSION Co-Founder Laurie Thomas directs the production.

“A tough and transcendent piece of proper grown-up theatre.” —The Guardian

The wealthy Snelgraves are shut up in their house. It’s 1665, and there’s a pandemic of sorts—the bubonic plague has descended upon London. The couple has only hours left of a 28-day quarantine when their home is mysteriously invaded by a sailor, Bunce and Morse, a young neighbor girl. With the arrival of these pesky newcomers, the Snelgraves' quarantine must begin all over again. As the shut-in days drag on, the boundaries that previously defined life are rewritten and abandoned. Sound familiar?

“[Naomi Wallace] speaks to, and for, the body as eloquently as any American writer since Walt Whitman.” —American Theatre

Naomi Wallace’s ONE FLEA SPARE made its New York premiere at The Public Theater in March of 1997 and won the OBIE Award for best play. She is also the recipient of a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (twice), and an Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Her raison d’ étre as a playwright is to “write as though the lives of others depend on it.” Uniquely, her plays are characterized by a fluidity of time. “I feel like the past and present—that there’s always an active kind of liquid relationship between the two. And, how in our lives the past at times can seem far more present and relevant or alive inside us...” The prescience of Wallace’s ONE FLEA SPARE, given our collective experience of the 2020 pandemic, is beyond uncanny as the play acts as an ultimatum, urgent and intense, for the present moment.

Performances will be on Thursdays & Fridays at 7 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM & 7 PM, and Sundays at 3 PM. Opening night features a pre-show reception with doors opening one hour prior to curtain. 

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NOTE: Contains adult content.