Performances of ADRENALIN...HEART Cancelled This Weekend

Due to a sudden family emergency of one of the actors, performances this weekend of Mind the Gap Theatre's production of Georgia Fitch's ADRENALIN…HEART are canceled, the company expects to resume performances on Thursday, May 10th at Space on White (81 White Street, between Broadway and Lafayette) it has been announced by Mind the Gap Artistic Director Paula D'Alessandris.

Additionally, following the performance of ADRENALIN…HEART on May 20th will be a talk-back with the play's author – Georgia Fitch. 

Sex, race, drugs and verbals collide in Georgia Fitch's ADRENALIN…HEART, a terrifying roller-coaster of an intense affair between a single mum and a reluctant drug dealer on a north London estate. Erotic infatuation leads to addiction of a far more serious nature in this sharp, edgy and obsessive drama. Directed by Mind the Gap Theatre's Artistic Director Paula D'Alessandris (THE CLERIC, UNDER THE BLUE SKY), the 70-minute two-hander ADRENALIN…HEART stars Mia Moreland and Lain Gray. 

Before starting her solo writing career, Georgia Fitch co-wrote several plays with actress Tracy O'Flaherty including the critically acclaimed THE FOOTBALLER'S WIFE and COME DANCING (Old Red Lion). Between 2006 and 2008 Georgia was on attachment to Royal Court and Soho Theatre. In 2004 she was Writer in Residence at BBC Radio Drama. Her solo credits include: FIT AND PROPER (Soho Theatre), DIRTY DIRTY PRINCESS (National Theatre), I LIKE MINE WITH A KISS (Bush Theatre), ADRENALIN…HEART (Bush Theatre), ALONE (Etc Theatre), and ARRIVALS (Old Red Lion).

Paula D'Alessandris is the Artistic Director and Founder of Mind The Gap Theatre (MTG), New York's premiere Anglo-American theatre company dedicated to producing new British plays and creating an exchange of works between the US and UK. Favorite directing credits with Mind The Gap include the world premiere of THE CLERIC at 59E59 Theaters; NY premiere of David Eldridge's UNDER THE BLUE SKY; Gary Owen's IN THE PIPELINE; her stage adaptation of Gary Oldman's NIL BY MOUTH, and many others. 

She directed three consecutive winners at the Samuel French Festival (all of which have been published) and many pieces in MTG's popular BritBits series. Other credits include: WALTER VS. THE WATER AUTHORITY at 59E59; her multiple-award-winning productions at the Pittsburgh New Works Festival of the outrageous comediesStampede! and THE BUTTER BIN. 

Mind The Gap Theatre exists to produce and promote new British writing in the US and to foster an exchange of new work between the US and UK. www.mindthegaptheatre.com

Scheduled April 26 through May 20, ADRENALIN…HEART has a performance schedule of Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8:00pm (with the following exceptions: no performance Thursday, May 17 at 8pm and an added performance on Sunday, May 20 at 3:00pm). Tickets are $18 and can be purchased

by calling 212-352-3101 or online at www.TheaterMania.com.

For more information about ADRENALIN…HEART or Mind the Gap Theatre Company, please visit: www.mindthegaptheatre.com.

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