United Solo Theatre Festival
Thursday, October 31, 2024 at 07:00pm
United Solo Theatre Festival
Theatre Row
410 West 42nd Street
The 17th Annual United Solo Theatre Festival
Featuring shows from across the country and around the globe, the world's largest solo theatre festival is entering our seventeenth season!
Schedule of Events
7pm: Follower - Starring Katheryn McGaffigan
A former runaway, groupie, and juvenile delinquent re-raises herself and gets a second chance at life by following and researching her eccentric, high-achieving college classmate. A coming-of-age love story, where there is no age but to get through the day, and there is no love but survival. This story takes the ""s"" out of stalker and the ""group"" out of groupie. A lone young woman finds her way.
This play is a first-hand experience of the contemporary themes of following, stalking, obsessiveness, limerence, and the phenomenon of super-fans. We live in a society of followers, driven by our number of followers and steered by the algorithms that follow us. Following gone-too-far is stalking, and the only viral voices behind stalking in society today are male (think Netflix's ""You"" and ""Baby Reindeer""). This play offers a long-overdue strong, witty and intelligent female voice to this compelling and controversial narrative.