1st FREE EVENT 2012-2013: "Holiday Shopping Stuff!" December 15

Our first public developmental audience engagement and collaboration workshop was held
Saturday, December 15, 2012, at 2:30 p.m. 

Video and news will be posted here soon about our highly successful first, developmental, audience interactive collaboration and play reading.  For now, a huge "Thank You!" to the great staff at the Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library for not only giving us a wonderful, warm welcome, but for facilitating our having, as a great and honored guest at this event, the Chief of Staff from the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, Beatriz "BB" Otero! 

In this, the biggest shopping season of the year, with her acute awareness of our consumer society's drive for acquisition of material objects, Pakrat Patty tells the story of her struggle to manage and divest herself of TOO MUCH STUFF.

This public event, presented free of admission fee, took place at the Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, 3935 Benning Rd. N.E., Washington, DC 20019, 202-281-2583 http://www.dclibrary.org/benning

Free Admission, Ample Free Parking, Metro Accessible. 

Many thanks to all who joined us at 2:30 p.m. for this inaugural audience interaction collaboration to develop "DisordR, The Play!" 

Reservations requested.  RSVP:  HilaryK.Actor@gmail.com   or  https://www.facebook.com/events/174388152704097/

Funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.


 


















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VIDEO

"DISORDr, The Play" Demo VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKQGCnHO7P8

Praise for DisordR

Washington City Paper's Caroline Jones gave us a nice mention May 10, 2013.  http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/44275/disordr-at-st-elizabeths-hospital-saturday-may-11

AND FOR DisordR IN 2009:

"stellar double feature...Hilary Kacser as Pakrat Patty...spills her heart out about dealing with all her stuff with hilarity, poignant honesty, and realism. Hilary Kacser gets to the heart of why a lot of us live the way we do, surrounded by stuff we no longer need, will not use, and cannot find when we need to. ...Disorder covers a tremendous amount of emotional territory by breaking down aspects of hoarding, what it is, why we do it, while laying out the consequences of being filled beyond capacity, including the sudden rise of U-Store-Itt companies.
...
"Kacser is a gifted actress and she communicates the delicacy and intricacy of the situations with respect and caring. Watching her deal with her relationship to her stuff is a healing and cathartic experience. ...a believable ally. ...hilarious.
"... listening to Patty’s stories, and watching her metamorphosis in real time, ... is not only funny and entertaining, but can actually change our approach to our own “disorder,” one bag at a time."
-- Debbie Minter Jackson, DC Theatre Scene, July 16, 2009 (http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/16/2-shows-disorderplant-psychic/)

Read even more favorable critical responses to this work:  http://2reprises.blogspot.com/2010/05/reviews-from-july-2010-capital-fringe.html

Saturday, November 6, 2010 -- Silver Spring

For one show only, The Washington Revels kindly offered the Rehearsal/Performance Space of the new, purpose-built Revels headquarters, for a performance of

2 One Acts:

"In PURSUIT of the ENGLISH" / "DISORDr"

SATURDAY NIGHT, 6 NOVEMBER 2010,

at 8 p.m.

An uncannily recognizable and potentially alarming encounter with hoarding behavior, “DISORDr” humanizes and humorously leavens the “clutter component” of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (“O.C.D.”)

Set in 1949-1950, “In Pursuit of the English,” the memoir by 2007 Nobel Prize Laureate Doris Lessing, brings to life “Rose,” a woman who recalls with wit and pathos how she survived the World War II Blitz of London.

Click each individual show title above or link below for more information about each show.
http://www.postwarrose.blogspot.com/

http://disordertheplay.blogspot.com/

The November performance of

2 One Acts:
"In PURSUIT of the ENGLISH" / "DISORDr"

was on

SATURDAY NIGHT, 6 NOVEMBER 2010,

beginning

at 8 p.m.

(ending about 9:45 p.m.)

Washington Revels is located at
531 Dale Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20910.

http://maps.google.com/mapsf=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=531+Dale+Drive+Silver+Spring,+MD+20910&sll=37.0625,95.677068&sspn=31.564064,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=531+Dale+Dr,+Silver+Spring,+Montgomery,+Maryland+20910&ll=38.998208,77.023902&spn=0.015109,0.027595&z=15

Please click here for

IMPORTANT PARKING AND LOCATION

details: http://mim.io/d7986

or

email for information to:

HilaryK.actor@gmail.com

Let's Talk About the Diagnosis Called "Hoarding Disorder"

Friday, August 24, 2018, 11 a.m.

Come Shine Light on Collecting Behavior   (AKA the diagnosis defined in the 2013 DSM-5 as "Hoarding Disorder," "HD"). Fighting in the open on behalf of people living with this largely closeted issue also opens up additional mental health conditions.

Please RSVP! Email:  DisordRThePlay@gmail.com
More info here.

Opening Keynote @ MHASF Awesome! http://mentalhealthsf.org/joinus-18th-conference-on-hoarding-cluttering/     http://mentalhealthsf.org/18-ichc-conference/

2nd Free DCCAH CAG event: Saturday afternoon, April 20, 2013 -- our Height/Benning Library Return Engagement by Popular Demand

Saturday afternoon, April 20, Height/Benning Library -- Back by popular demand, you came see how we're incorporating your feedback from December into this evolving performance!  12:00 Noon

Thank you for your great support and feedback.  We are really excited to have your involvement in creating this play!

"DisordR"

plays as
part of
2 REPRISES --
"In PURSUIT
of the
ENGLISH" / "DisordR"

at the

Goethe Institut - Mainstage
812 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 20001

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http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/enindex.htm

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