Meet Actress Mary Neiderkorn, whose one-woman present on psychological well being referred to as “Thank You for Making an attempt to Make Me a Higher Individual,” make its off-Broadway debut later this month.
The play sheds mild on one girl’s ache and frustration in mild of familial abuse, and the facility of discovering that her future is in her fingers alone.
“This play shouldn’t be the story I deliberate to inform,” says Niederkorn, who additionally portrayed an adoption social employee within the brief movie, “The Dedication.” That movie earned a 2013 NASW Media Award.
“A lot of what I’ve written I had by no means acknowledged,” she stated. “Nor did I understand how a lot my previous nonetheless affected me. My solo-play makes the purpose that nobody has excellent dad and mom. Unacknowledged ache is handed from technology to technology. The best way out is to face it and rise above the better alternative of being a sufferer. Nothing is extra seductive than ‘it’s not my fault.’ However that doesn’t work.
“The sufferer is suspended, ready for another person to vary. My play provides voice to at least one particular person’s frustration and ache within the face of actual abuse – not by monsters, however by loving dad and mom.”
Written by Mary Niederkorn, “Thank You for Making an attempt to Make Me a Higher Individual,” is directed by Sarah Carlin, and produced by Cornbill Productions. It opens Oct. 30, and a second efficiency is on Nov. 5.
The efficiency is a part of United Solo, the world’s largest solo theatre pageant positioned on Theatre Row at 410 West forty second Avenue in New York Metropolis.
