Bite the Apple
was performed March 10-13, 2022
224 Waverly Place Theater, NYC
(home of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
was performed March 10-13, 2022
224 Waverly Place Theater, NYC
(home of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
What people are saying:
"Beautiful writing and a great cast."
"Awesome night at the theatre with Manning leading Grimm into 'A Wood of Her Own.'"
“Watching this play, I felt like I felt the first time I read Margaret Atwood.”
“I’ve never seen a play that made me think so much about the decisions that were made for me in life.”
“It was so real. Sometimes in life you really do find yourself out in the desert or lost in the woods.”
"It's feminist Beckett."
"What a beautiful and powerful production."
"Live theater is back baby!"
"Don't miss this sensational play."
"It was amazing. I'm still processing."
"Phenomenal, profound and moving."
"The acting was top notch, and the story and lighting kept me guessing."
"It was a deep and dark rendition of the many fairy tales that can haunt the modern woman."
"I'm blown away. You really got the unconscious mind breaking free of our internal traps."
"Beautiful writing and a great cast."
"Awesome night at the theatre with Manning leading Grimm into 'A Wood of Her Own.'"
“Watching this play, I felt like I felt the first time I read Margaret Atwood.”
“I’ve never seen a play that made me think so much about the decisions that were made for me in life.”
“It was so real. Sometimes in life you really do find yourself out in the desert or lost in the woods.”
"It's feminist Beckett."
"What a beautiful and powerful production."
"Live theater is back baby!"
"Don't miss this sensational play."
"It was amazing. I'm still processing."
"Phenomenal, profound and moving."
"The acting was top notch, and the story and lighting kept me guessing."
"It was a deep and dark rendition of the many fairy tales that can haunt the modern woman."
"I'm blown away. You really got the unconscious mind breaking free of our internal traps."
The tale of four heroines --
one trapped in servitude
one preyed upon by a wolf
one hunted through the woods
one locked in a tower --
many years later
determined to unearth what was lost
and write a new story
one trapped in servitude
one preyed upon by a wolf
one hunted through the woods
one locked in a tower --
many years later
determined to unearth what was lost
and write a new story
Diana Henry is Cinderella
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Gaia Visnar is Red
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Nia Ragini is Snow White
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Linda Manning is Rapunzel
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A modern-day Cinderella, in the middle of a full blown crisis is thrust into the tales of Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Rapunzel exposing their emotionally treacherous stories, unearthing the past she has tried to forget, and discovering the possibility of a new story of her own making.
Content Warning: sexually explicit language, not appropriate for children under 14 years of age
Content Warning: sexually explicit language, not appropriate for children under 14 years of age
hear from the writer/director and actors
Bite the Apple was one of three Finalists for the
2019 Kentucky Women Writer's Prize. |
This production was made possible by a generous grant from Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation, and many individual donors.
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The play explores the intersection of trauma and desire.
This story dives deep into the white hot power that our past experiences have to define us, and the tremendous stamina of the human heart to keep alive our true selves in the most fantastically difficult and surprising circumstances.
This story dives deep into the white hot power that our past experiences have to define us, and the tremendous stamina of the human heart to keep alive our true selves in the most fantastically difficult and surprising circumstances.
The archetypes of the Grimm’s fairytale characters and their gripping, fantastic stories are used as an anchor, a window through which the audience can experience how the crippling, unresolved events in a woman's past continue to haunt her present.
For more information contact our producer Michael Pinney at mgpinney at gmail dot com.