Our 2016-17 Salon Series: Reading #1, ALL FALL DOWN by Lisa Ramirez.

ALL FALL DOWN is a ‘memory play’ that begins on the day of the funeral of Bobby, the youngest child and only son of Rose. Two sisters, Jackie and Grace, struggle to maintain their versions of the past and the events that led to this loss. Set in the (now abandoned) house where they grew up, the ghost of Bobby, Rose and the Chorus of the Past control the play’s shape and substance, forcing the sisters to examine their own beliefs, truths or half truths about what really happened in the house. ALL FALL DOWN examines the themes of addiction, grief, cultural identity, forgiveness and freedom.

ALL FALL DOWN was conceived/written in 2012 at INTAR during the Maria Irene Fornés Hispanic Playwrights in Residency Lab.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
3GT Resident Playwright Lisa Ramirez is an actor and playwright who was most recently resident at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City.   Her extensive list of plays (produced in NYC, LA, Ireland and many places in between) includes EXIT CUCKOO; ART OF MEMORY; INVISIBLE WOMEN-RISE and TO THE BONE, which was a finalist for the 2011 NPN Smith Prize, the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Ellen Stewart Award.   Lisa is a proud recipient of the 2015 NYCT Helen Merrill Emerging Playwriting Award, as well as a Resident Playwright in the Playwrights Foundation RPI class of 2019.