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How To Get Into Buildings

Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy  /  3w, 3m

Trish Harnetiaux

"Harnetiaux does some quite sophisticated structural work here, slipstreaming her events in space [...] and a constantly somersaulting timeline." - Time Out NY

How To Get Into Buildings

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    75 Minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Experimental
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
Roger and Lucy meet at a convention. Daphne and Nick break down at a diner. Ethan continues to read compulsively from his new book, The Car Accident, which wouldn’t exist without Daphne. Soon, it becomes apparent that reality is slippery, time shifty, and we join our characters’ struggles with their own discoveries about love, opportunity, and the desire to pause with trepidation as they try to articulate who and what they actually love.
History

How to Get into Buildings premiered in a production by New Georges at the Brick in Brooklyn, NY in December 2015 under the direction of Katherine Brook.

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Performing Groups
LUCY MASERATI - she’s totally game/ cautiously evolving
ROGER SAUVIGNON - he’s a bit self-absorbed/ yet earnest 
ETHAN CAMBABERT/ DOCTOR/ WAITER ONE - the storyteller/ confident/ dead serious
DAPHNE PIERRE-PONT/ DOCTOR/ WAITER TWO - easily annoyed/ aware/ dead serious 
NICK NOVA-SCOTIA / DOCTOR/ WAITER THREE - restless and easily offended/ dead serious 
MRS. REINHARDT/ DOCTOR/ WAITER FOUR - wisely ambivalent/dead serious
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Additional Features No Intermission
  • Duration 75 Minutes
  • Cautions
    • Strong Language

Media

REVIEWS 

"Harnetiaux does some quite sophisticated structural work here, slipstreaming her events in space ... and a constantly somersaulting timeline." - Time Out NY, Read More 

"Put a Walter Mitty-esque imagination through an experimental theatre blender, and you may come close to the spirit and tone of Trish Harnetiaux’s play How to Get into Buildings ... a solid dose of giddiness topped with a dollop of puppy-love." - Exeunt Magazine, Read More 

"Playwright Trish Harnetiaux has crafted a piece that is laugh-out-loud funny and at the same time a reminder to embrace every seemingly insignificant moment of your life … entertaining & hilarious!” - New York Theatre Review, Read More 

"A wild, wildly funny ride!" - Culture Catch, Read More 


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Authors

Trish Harnetiaux

Trish Harnetiaux

Trish Harnetiaux is a playwright, filmmaker and podcast creator. Her narrative podcast The MS Phoenix Rising, about the relaunch of the cruise ship industry, is available on Playwrights Horizons Soundstage. She's developing the TV pilot this summer through The Orchard Project ...

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