Oddity - “Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare.”

There is a wall separating our heroine from the rest of the world, an invisible wall that she comes up against with a loud bang if ever she tries to connect with others.  She is different.  “The loner, the lone wolf, The Oddity.”
At the start of Tiffany Anderson’s original play Oddity, we are introduced to a girl of five with lots of energy and a wonderful imagination.  She talks to herself.  She talks to us.  She talks to Aliens.  She’s got a camera in her head and she’s gonna show the aliens what the world looks like.

A delightful little girl, we are with her all the way as she lets us in on the workings of her mind through song, dance, and a whole lot of comedy.  With Cameron Gray on electric guitar, an inspired soundscape, and a grouping of mirrors, our girl catches glimpses of herself and asks the question, “Am I weird?”
“Do you remember the first time you saw yourself as everyone else sees you?” she asks us through the invisible wall separating us.  “I think if I tried hard enough, I could be someone else.”

We follow our heroine and her vivid imagination all the way to high school as she tries different “selves” on for size, no matter how impossible (Jessica Rabbit – “She’s really beautiful.”) in an attempt to fit in, find love, and make friends.

In high school she meets “Liquor, the Magic Friend Elixer” and has a date with Mary Jane.  She goes through her father’s LP’s and, with the help of David Bowie (“a Real Live Alien!”), rewrites her own story and finds her way home to herself dissolving the invisible wall that separates her from the world.

Tiffany Anderson is a young playwright and performer of significant talent.  She is charismatic, funny, charming, engaging, and sings, dances and jokes her way into our hearts while taking us on an affecting journey.