Graphic Design: Reed Gulden
1980. New Haven, Connecticut — Four months before he will attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr. moves into the Colony Inn with a simple plan to make Jodie Foster his girlfriend. In his first night at the hotel, John meets Eddie, the night concierge, where they discover a shared dilemma: both are in love with Yalies who don’t know they exist. When Eddie offers to connect John to Jodie in exchange for an investment, their business partnership blossoms into an unexpected friendship, revealing a growing crisis neither recognizes in the other before it’s too late. Falls For Jodie, a dark comedy by Eric Micha Holmes, dares to ask: “How can the pursuit of love escalate to a national tragedy”?
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Reviews
“Director Terrence I Mosley gives Sommers and Thornton time to enjoy the jokes and sit with the silences that follow them. That pacing allows the tension to build within their exchanges…It’s the kind of production that sends audiences out of The Tank ready to tell their friends to go see it.”
STEPHEN KEARLEY reviews FALLS FOR JODIE at The Tank
“The production, directed by Terrence I. Mosley, plays effectively with the distance between the absurdity of the situation and what the audience knows is coming. With a full house and only two actors, Boone Sommers as John Hinckley Jr. and Harry Thornton as Eddie carry the weight of the production beautifully… Under Mosley's direction, the full space becomes part of the storytelling. Entrances and exits throughout the intimate playing area keep the audience aware of the physical relationship between the two men, while the limited space gives their encounters an increasingly claustrophobic quality. There is nowhere for the tension to hide.”
Theatre Beyond Broadway: Falls For Jodie
“Eddie and John are roughly the same age, and the actors have a similar skin tone, height, hair color, and build. This is a perplexing choice at first, but over the course of the play it allows us to see more clearly the differences that matter between the characters…Terrence I Mosley directs the duo skillfully, moving them around the very small space, using it to the maximal extent.”
We Have to Talk About John: Cameron Page on Eric Micha Holmes's "Falls for Jodie" at The Tank
“Director Terrence I Mosley understates the situation. Brief scenes are kept fluid. Chemistry is top notch.”
Theater Pizzazz: ‘Falls for Jodie’ – A Stalker in Love and Pain
“Thornton manages to draw plenty of relatable humanity from a character who could easily come off as a sleazy hustler. As John, the wild-eyed Sommers effortlessly embodies the main character energy of a child of generational wealth.”
Review: In Falls for Jodie, John Hinckley Jr. Makes a Friend
“The way the actors bounce off one another and the authenticity the actors were able to bring to these roles was part of what makes the show special. The show does a good job of building tension and building creep factor… There’s a rising tension that gives the audience a great reason to remain interested and keep intrigue in the show”
We’re a small, independent production. We rely on donations to fully fund this project. We currently have $3,310 left to raise to break even.
Photo Credit: Cason Doyle
