GENERATIONS OF GHOSTS NEVER SEEM TO DISSIPATE…

Press contact: Noelle Hall
Email: [email protected]
Phone 717-847-9879

A new Los Angeles Based Play
To be performed at
The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022

I’m here to invite you to a new drama centering on being haunted by one’s own memories. My team will be sharing a story that portrays a woman out of touch with reality. “A Day with my Mother” is a collection of Cecelia’s memories, most being regrettable days. She can’t seem to move on from these memories. Having grown up with an impatient mother, and now married to an equally impatient husband, Cecilia is left feeling like a burden. Struggling with psychic abilities she is left feeling crazy. This is a dramatic telling of being a slave to one’s own mind. Cecilia can never feel at peace while being haunted. This play is to be performed at HFF2022 in June and will be presented at Asylum, Thymele Arts California Room June 4-25th.
Having participated in the festival as a producer last year, I was inspired to do the festival every year. This year with a play of my own. A Day With my Mother stars: Maeve Schauerman, Andy Schirrmeister, Charlotte Kwong, Anton Wilhelm, and Caroline Stevens. This play will be produced and directed by myself. It’s a very different tone from the project I participated in last year, which was a musical. I chose to challenge myself by not only hitting some hard topics but by directing my own writing.
The protagonist faces many battles within herself. One being agoraphobia. This is something I, myself have faced growing up. This intense feeling of not wanting to be in even the most minuscule social interactions stems from childhood. Having an unapproachable parent brought anxious feelings. For some parents, this happens unconsciously. You end up having conversations with yourself.
Stewing in my home left me picking at every part myself that doesn’t conform to perfection. This is a big reason to stay home alone. You don’t feel any sort of confidence. And only wishing to be more productive. But there is an intense feeling of safety that comes with isolating.
I hope A Day With My Mother inspires daughters and sons alike to forgive their mothers. Our parents were children too, it’s hard to remember that they were once young. Some of our mothers never healed from their wounds and it’s up to us to teach them while healing ourselves. This is a man’s world after all.

A Day With my Mother written by Noelle Hall
Thymele Arts Organization – 5481 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90029
Preview: Saturday June 4, at 3:15pm
Saturday June 11, at 4:45pm
Friday June 17, at 9:15pm
Saturday June 25, at 7:15pm
Ticket price: $10.00
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Admission age: 16+ content warning: domestic abuse/violence

ABOUT THE WRITER/DIRECTOR
My love for theatre began around 16. I attended a performing arts based high school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and quickly became immersed in the theatre arts. By the time I became a junior, I was focused on submitting myself to direct a play for my senior year. I wrote an eight page paper on my ins and outs of how I would direct Rumors by Neil Simon, one of my favorite plays at the time. I was chosen, given a school budget and a theatre space. It was a successful show. But everything changed when I moved to Los Angeles.
I decided to drop out of college at nineteen and pursue my dream. I was headset on acting when. Then the pandemic happened 3 months after I arrived. I was stuck in my unprocessed childhood mind. Alone with no one I knew, far away from family, I had all the time in the world to think. I began to realize I had no one I knew over here. I was realizing it would be harder to pursue acting outside of, what I thought, was a competitive arts school. Everything was more expensive than I anticipated. I felt I was delusional for moving here, leaving everything I had in Pennsylvania behind. It took about a year for me to eventually learn about self healing. Recently I have reconnected with my love of writing and directing. This will be my first original play on the stage. I am deep into learning at this point in my life, and after this festival I have plans to focus on writing. One thing I loved about this group of actors is their willingness and kindness in pointing out flaws in the script. I was worried about being too biased so I always hoped my actors would feel compelled in calling out faults in the writing. It was a group effort.

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Thank you for reading,
Noelle Hall