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A painting mishap tests the limits of one young writer's sanity when, newly-relocated to NYC, she becomes locked in her bathroom, with a tiny, 1' x 1' window her only means of communication with the outside world.
Story by Annie Lalla.
Presented by Yarn AudioWorks (http://www.yarnaudioworks.com).
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A painting mishap tests the limits of one young writer's sanity when, newly-relocated to NYC, she becomes locked in her bathroom, with a tiny, 1' x 1' window her only means of communication with the outside world.
Story by Annie Lalla.
Presented by Yarn AudioWorks (http://www.yarnaudioworks.com).
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James Reiss
Posted on June 22, 2008 at 06:24 PM | Permalink
Review of Damsel, Distressed
Half the fun of this piece is its portrait of New York as Friendly City. Anyone, like me, who has lived in Manhattan knows it's the antithesis of the rude hellhole or the glitzy Billionaires' Row it's been portrayed as.
The second half of the fun of this piece is Annie Lalla's apparently unscripted anecdote. In a feisty, extemporaneous burst Lalla describes being stuck in the bathroom of her new apartment because of wet paint gluing the door to its frame. Instead of Juliet addressing Romeo from her balcony, Lalla shouts down to a passerby for help in a deserted alley. Ultimately, the damsel in distress is rescued not by the good-looking passerby, but by the unlikeliest hero. I won't spill the beans by divulging the story's outcome.
What strikes me is how Lalla, a Canadian newcomer in the Big Apple, exudes good humor. Neither she nor her producer-interviewer Erik Winick can stop laughing at quirky, quintessentially New Yorky events. If Gotham has suffered a bum rap for eons, in this case Lalla, a cute aspiring writer from Toronto, restores the rep of the megatropolis once known as Fun City.
I'm hoping Winick's segment is not so offbeat as to be off-putting to PDs. Because Winick has co-produced at least one other piece with Jay Allison, let me express my fervent belief that "Damsel, Distressed" will get licensed by somebody adventurous and smart. Yeah, man!
This I believe.