WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?

by Deb Margolin

A tragicomic human cartoon located in a telephonocracy – a land where the telephone company's Board of Directors has created its constitution and rules the world. The main characters, Myrtle and Arnold Schmidt, struggle to reconcile different views on the importance of their own status as fictional characters, and hence the very meaning of their lives. Puppetry, live music, a magical set, and a tender blur of the absurd, the philosophical and the tragic are all ascendant as Myrtle, a crackerjack corporate attorney and a famous pastry chef, and Arnold, her besotted, unemployed husband, try to reason their way out of a deep divide on the importance of realness: What Difference Does It Make?

A World Premiere
Presented at The United Bakery Gallery
August 13-16 & 20-23, 2015

Featuring:

ARNOLD SCHMIDT – Chris Silva
MYRTLE SCHMIDT – Maile Zox 
ANNOUNCER – David Chervony
PHYLLIS/VISITOR – A.S. Wilson 
MARIAN/VISITORS – Clara Fernandez

Director – Bennett Kirschner
Stage Manager – Haleigh Kling
Set Designer – Julian Wellisz
Prop & Puppet Designer – Nike Redding
Lighting Designer – Madison Kallisti
Poster & TV Background Designer – Sarah VanDerMeer

With Music by The Belly Boys: Tyler McGuckin, Howe Pearson and Jeremy Webber