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Sara Felder’s Melancholy, A Comedy

Written and Performed by Sara Felder
Directed by David O’Connor
Projections by Marc D’agostino

Philly favorite, Sara Felder returns to the Bride with her unforgettable trademark wit and newest work, Melancholy, A Comedy. Known for her radical solo performance, Felder collages monologues, circus routines, video projections and image/object work to tell stories of people dealing with depression and mental illness, including a woman she flirts with on the bus, and a former president of the U.S. Just after the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth, Melancholy, A Comedy delves into Abraham Lincoln’s life-long battle with his melancholia and how the man known for uniting a divided country, worked just as hard to unite the disparate parts of himself. A beautiful, campy, poignant, and funny work, Melancholy, A Comedy is ultimately a redemptive and ridiculous journey of personal liberation from the civil war within us.

Melancholy, a Comedy was made possible in part by a grant from the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts.

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