Photo Credits — Bill Wadman
“Fine acting always hits an audience with the force and oneness of the well made bomb — one is only aware of the blast or series of blasts at the time–afterwards you can study the devastation or think about how a bomb is made.“
Alan Rickman
Adara Totino detonates delightfully as PIPPA in the new play RETROSPECTIVE in the leading comedy performance of the summer. (Don’t miss the glorious burst of energy that is her performance; buy your tix now for 08/13-08/16 for BBTF at AMT Theatre 354 West 54th St. )
Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Adara attended the Actor’s Studio MFA Program, studying under luminaries such as Elizabeth Kemp, Susan Aston and Louis Colaianni. You may have been fortunate enough to see Adara in Edward Allan Baker’s DOLORES (ASDS Repertory) or Cyn Cooper’s I WAS A STRANGER TOO produced by Remember the Women Institute. To see Adara on stage is to cherish and never forget her ability to create a character so real and engaging that her story draws you willingly, bewitchingly into another world.
“The theatre is the place where extraordinary things happen, where you see people behaving, not as they do on the street, but as they might do in your dreams. Or your nightmares.”
Simon Callow
Who is Pippa the character that Adara embodies in RETROSPECTIVE?
- Dead poet, deep-rooted rapturous rhymer
- Tour guide to the afterlife
- Feltering (look it up) ex-wife of Rory McGrory, acclaimed painter
- Putative, but disputed, muse of Rory, now warily encountering her
- Unclogger of earthly attachments and schmutz
Rory thinks (and hopes) he’s dreaming; Pippa says he’s dead. To find out who’s right and see Adara Totino in her captivating turn on the Off-Broadway stage come see RETROSPECTIVE
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