THE MYOPIA
an epic burlesque of tragic proportion
written & performed by David Greenspan
directed by Brian Mertes

The Raconteur: …and this thing – this thing to begin – why, it is called The Myopia, and it is an epic burlesque of tragic proportion. Ding, ding, ding, ding. And the curtain is rising on its first act …

Thus begins a play featuring Barclay, who’s writing a play about his father, Febus, who’s writing a musical about President Warren G. Harding, that Barclay is re-writing to feature his grandmother Yetti, his mother Koreen, 16 US Senators and Carol Channing. And it is all being performed on a bare stage from an armchair by playwright/actor David Greenspan. The Myopia is an Escher painting in theatrical form – a 25-character solo performance of virtuosic proportion.

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"Greenspan is probably all-around the most talented theater artist of my generation.”
- Playwright Tony Kushner, quoted in The New York Times

"Playwright and director David Greenspan knows how to turn the banalities of everyday speech into poetry.”
- The Boston Globe

“Greenspan is a writer of thrilling literary audaciousness.”
- The Glasgow Herald

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David Greenspan is a recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship and The Cal Arts Herb Alpert Award. His plays have been produced at The Public Theater/NYSF, Playwright's Horizon's, the Royal Court in London, the Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow, and the Stukke Theater in Berlin. As an actor, Greenspan has won three Obie Awards for Mart Crowley’s "The Boys in the Band," Richard Foreman’s "Benita Canova" and, most recently, "She Stoops to Comedy" which he also wrote and directed, as well as a Drama Desk nomination (also for "The Boys"). He has also appeared in Rude Mechs’ "Lipstick Traces" for The Foundry Theatre, in Kathleen Tolan’s "The Wax," Harry Kondoleon’s "Saved or Destroyed," José Rivera’s "Sueño" at MCC, "High Life" and "Second-hand Smoke" at Primary Stages