Vision Disturbance premiered at Abrons Arts Center in 2010, featuring Linda Mancini and Jay Smith.

Two lost souls converge in Reading, PA. Mondo, a middle-aged Greek immigrant woman is living in small-town Pennsylvania, going through a divorce from her traditional, Greek husband. The resulting stress detonates an eye disorder that features a loss of depth perception among other perplexing symptoms. The unconventional retina specialist she turns to relies on music therapy to treat her.

Director: Richard Maxwell

Produced by New York City Players

SELECTED PRESS

"... a left-field, deeply human acknowledgement of half-forgotten outsiders punted to the margins of society... a black-humour romp that shimmers with Beckett-like strangeness. Sharply observed, well-directed and acted, Vision Disturbance revels in the oddness of life, offering plenty of humanity and a soupçon of hope while sidestepping easy or clear-cut solutions." Times Colonist

Top 10 of 2010 - Time Out New York

"A showcase for Ms. Masciotti's gift for writing...a lovely resourceful coup de theatre that suggests that, yes, flat lives may sometimes achieve that longed-for third dimension." - The New York Times

"(4 out of 5 stars) Marvelously strange and humane...Masciotti's language is beautifully wrought: a keen interplay of the boring and weirdly poetic." - Time Out New York

"Brilliant...and unforgettable" - The New Yorker

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Theater Inconnu, Victoria, BC, Canada, May 2024

Trienalle Teatro dell’Arte, Milan, Italy, October 2017

ZKM, Zagreb, Croatia, April 2014

Le Maillon, Strasbourg, France, March 2014

T2G, Gennevilliers, France, March 2014

Theatre Garonne, Toulouse, France, March 2014

Arts Emerson, TNT Festival, Boston, February 2013

VIE Festival, Modena, Italy, October 2011

Lastarria 90, Santiago, Chile, July 2011

Theater Bonn, Bonn, Germany May 2011

The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, January 2011

Abrons Arts Center, September 2010

CUNY's Prelude Festival, October 2009

New York Theatre Workshop (developmental reading), May 2009

The Yocum Instutute for Arts Education, Wyomissing, PA, 2008

Vision Disturbance is made possible with support from The Greenwall Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Berks County Community Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, The French-American Fund for Contemporary Theater, and the generous contributions of many individual patrons.

Photography by Michael Schmelling