Almost Equal To
By Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Presented by Pittsburgh Playhouse, Nov 2023
direction ADIL MANSOOR
scenic TONI WOODS
light XOTCHIL MUSSER
costumes DAMIAN E. DOMINGUEZ
sound AARON LANDGRAF
projection design NATALIE ROSE MABRY
movement choreo ILLIANA SHARP
fight & intimacy choreo TONYA LYNN
production stage manager TEAGAN DEGROEN
assistant stage managers GRACIE FLANICK & ALEX HAMM
cast | Clark Eileen Atkinson, Katherine Bruce, Maddy Cox, Emma Delaware, Madison Downing, Adrian Escalona, Abbey Hannis, Jonah Hartman, Sophie Hosna, Logan Kearney, Charlie Kennedy, Elizabeth Nucci, Julia Polisoto, Thomas Smith, Colin Villacorte, Maddie Young
Images by John Altdorfer & Natalie Rose Mabry
Martina 2 rationalizes for Martina how she is totally justified in stealing money from the cash register of the convenience store where she works.
Martina and Martina 2 steal a bottle of expensive perfume.
Martina and Martina 2 fall in love with a much too expensive perfume.
Mani and Martina avoid the elephant in the room.
Martina and Martina 2 explain to the audience how she started stealing from the convenience store she works at.
Martina muses about budgeting and spousal problems.
Martina and Martina 2 argue whether the homeless deserve sympathy.
Martina dreams about the perfect baby stroller.
Martina loathes her sister, Angelika's, wealth and recent inheritance from her great-aunt Solveig.
Martina and Martina 2 visit a Job Coach her parents hired.
Martina and "Harry Styles" (Peter) Laugh about how Mani is incompetent within Mani's own nightmare.
Mani and Martina watch TV.
Martina and Mani are having a marital spat.
Mani and Martina have a passive-aggressive conversation.
Martina complains about Mani not being financially realistic about being a young couple with a toddler.
Martina and Martina 2 conspire.
Martina mourns Aunt Solveig's death along with Martina 2, 3, and 4.
Martina and "Harry Styles" (Peter) have pillow talk.
Martina dreams about owning a farm, and Martina 2 gives her a reality check.
Mani and Martina miscommunicate.
Martina and Peter, who just revealed himself as Harry Styles who was pretending to be homeless to "research for an upcoming role", have sex in Martina's partner's nightmare scenario dream sequence.
Marina 2 and the Job Coach gang up on Martina.
Martina and Mani satirize what Martina's sister's wedding was like.
Martina 2 is starting to like the Job Coach's ideas.
Bows.
Michael Buzzelli
“Atkinson is so incredibly likable, even when her character is behaving badly. When her character feels joy, it exudes out into the audience. Her stage presence is amazing.”
‘Burgh Vivant