The Zero Hour: You have to Love O!

Daina Michelle Griffith - Photo by Heather Mull
O, a chronically unemployed lover in a relationship with Rebecca, who is not out of the closet, will escort you through a range of emotions throughout the play.

O will make you laugh.  Whether she’s prostrating herself asking for forgiveness, taking pictures of Rebecca just about everywhere, or demanding attention when Rebecca is on the phone with her mother, she will make you laugh.

O will make you think.  In her own obstinate, childlike way, O demands to know why the full truth cannot be told.  Why is the whole Holocaust story not told to 7th graders?  Why can’t Rebecca tell her mother she is a lesbian? Why can we not all be honest?

O will make you feel.  O will make you feel what it’s like to disappoint your lover, what it’s like to miss someone, and what it’s like to carry anger against those you love.

Michelle Pilecki of The Pittsburgh City Paper had this to say about O and the play:

  • “The real fun is that Griffith portrays all the people and/or hallucinations that unhinge Rebecca”
  • “O loudly proclaims her love for Rebecca, then does something horrid to her. Every single time.”
  • “The subjects are serious but The Zero Hour is funny and polished.”  

O, wonderfully played by Daina Michelle Griffith, is a character who will make you laugh, think and feel. Aren’t these the things we could all stand to do more often?

The Zero Hour plays through November 9, 2013 at our small, intimate theater just 6 miles from downtown Pittsburgh. Parking is free.  Click here for tickets.

Daina Michelle Griffith
About Daina Michelle Griffith (O): Daina is grateful to be back at Off The Wall for her second production with this exciting company, having worked under the direction of Ms. Parrish earlier this year in OTW's Looking For The Pony. Most recent credits include All My Sons with The REP, Viva Los Bastarditos! with No Name Players, A Streetcar Named Desire with Bricolage-In The Raw, and John Gabriel Borkman with Quantum. She's performed with theatres across the country and in NYC, including Kansas City Starlight, Human Race Theatre, Gateway Playhouse, heXtc, NYC International Fringe Festival, among others. Locally: Pittsburgh Public Theater, Quantum Theatre, PICT, City Theatre, Bricolage, Carrnivale Theatrics, Pittsburgh CLO, Pittsburgh Musical Theater and Prime Stage. Film: The Dark Knight Rises (Foley's wife), Love and Other Drugs, Civilians. Up next: Well at Off The Wall.

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