About the Project
“Broken bones get all the attention. Broken hearts get all the sympathy. But broken brains….they just leave everyone really confused.” Thus begins A Lesson In Swimming, a One-Person Show about Michael, a 40-something cliche, who suddenly finds himself disabled after experiencing 3 inexplicable strokes in a 4-month period in 2015. As if losing the ability to speak, walk, and see weren’t bad enough, he is eventually released from the hospital and into the care of his blind and deaf octogenarian parents who have flown out from their small, Irish-Catholic New England town and moved into his West Hollywood apartment. As his parents struggle to hear what the doctors are saying, and Michael struggles to regain his reason to live, a hit of anesthesia is all it takes to remember that he may have learned everything he ever needed to know to survive during an impromptu swimming lesson in 1974.
Production Team
