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Falling Goes Off-Broadway
Fontbonne University theatre professor and Mustard Seed Theatre founder Deanna Jent enjoyed an entirely new audience during the fall of 2012. Her much-lauded original play, “Falling,” ran Off-Broadway, Monday, Oct. 15, through Sunday, Dec. 30, at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York.
In the video below, go backstage for a behind-the-scenes tour of "Falling" with Jent.
Jent,
also the director of theatre and performing arts at Fontbonne,
wrote the play based on her own experiences as the mother of a severely
autistic son. It was first performed by Mustard Seed Theatre on
Fontbonne’s campus in the fall of 2011. Sold out every night, “Falling”
received such rave reviews that it twice extended its run. It attracted he attention of St. Louis native Terry Schnuck, a theatre producer who was so impressed with the production that he later acquired the rights to the play. His efforts, through his own Falling Feathers production
company, led “Falling” to New York, where it is scheduled for an open-ended run.
For Jent, the play remains personal. “Throughout
the whole process, I worried that this was a story that would never mean
anything to someone who didn’t have a son with autism,” she said during
an interview for a January 2012 Tableaux article (pp. 10-11). “But it also reflects
universal truths; there are things we all struggle with. And people
have responded to that.”
Read the New York Reviews: The New York Post, TheaterMania.com, Backstage.com, Broadway.com
See St. Louis media coverage: KSDK, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Beacon, St. Louis Public Radio.