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Lucy

By: Erica Schmidt
Narrated by: Brooke Bloom, Lynn Collins, Charlotte Surak
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Ashling is every busy parent’s dream: a professional nanny with experience and a warm, sunny attitude. But from the moment Mary hires her to look after her young children, things start to feel just a little...off. Are Mary’s stressful work schedule and lack of sleep playing games with her own sanity, or has she welcomed an unstable troublemaker into her home?

A harrowing and hilarious psychological thriller whose sense of disquiet builds with each passing scene, Erica Schmidt’s Lucy is sure to disturb and delight parents and non-parents alike. After all, if you can’t even be sure what’s happening in your home when you’re away, what can you be sure of?

©2023 Erica Schmidt (P)2023 AO Media LLC
Drama & Plays Entertainment & Performing Arts Mystery Storytelling Exciting Funny Witty Scary Suspense

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About the Creator

Erica Schmidt (Director) Writer/director: Lucy (Audible, Minetta Lane); All the Fine Boys (The New Group). Adapted/directed: Cyrano with The National (The Goodspeed, The New Group); Mac Beth (Seattle Rep, Red Bull, HTP) Drama Desk nominations: Outstanding Direction, Revival; Lortel nomination Outstanding Revival. Debbie Does Dallas (Araca Group). Director: Orpheus Descending (TFANA); King Richard II (Old Globe); A Month In The Country (Classic Stage Company); Humor Abuse (co-writer/director, Lucille Lortel Award, MTC, Taper); Rent (Tokyo); Trust (The Play Company, Callaway Award nomination); As You Like It (The Public Theater); Princess Grace Award 2001. As screenwriter, BAFTA nomination for Cyrano (Working Title/MGM)

About the Performer

Television: FX'S Atlanta, FX's Kindred, Amazon's Homecoming, USA's The Sinner, HBO's Gypsy, and Amazon's Alpha House. Feature Film: The Surrogate (SXSW), Minyan (Berlin Film Festival), She's Lost Control (2 Indie Spirit Award nominations), Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, and White Noise. NY stage: Clare Barron's You Got Older (Obie Award Win for Best Actress & Best Actress Drama Desk nomination), Atlantic Theater Company's Cloud Nine, David Greenspan's I'm Looking for Helen Twelvetrees, and Signature Theatre's Everybody. Brooke resides in NYC and is repped by Talentworks and Circle of Confusion.

About the Performer

Lynn Collins graduated from Juilliard and shortly thereafter got her first big break when she was cast as Portia in The Merchant of Venice opposite Al Pacino and Joseph Fiennes. Other major film roles followed, including The Lake House opposite Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, The Number 23 for Joel Schumacher opposite Jim Carey, the Alan Ball film Towelhead, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in which she played “Silver Fox” opposite Hugh Jackman, and the female lead in John Carter for Disney Studios, to name a few. On the TV side, Lynn recently wrapped a pivotal role in the last season of The Walking Dead opposite Norman Reedus. Prior to that, she recurred on the Amazon series Bosch and starred in The Mission for ABC. Other standout TV appearances include ]HBO’s True Blood as Dawn Green and the miniseries Manhunt: Unabomber, opposite Sam Worthington, Paul Bettany, and Keisha Castle Hughes. Lynn began her career on stage, where she played Ophelia opposite Liev Schrieber in Hamlet at The Public Theatre in New York and was Juliet in Sir Peter Hall’s Romeo and Juliet at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. She starred in Erica Schmidt’s play Lucy at The Minetta Lane Theatre in New York.

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Started off good until the ending

Overall, for free, it was good. The ending was just a huge let down. I have no idea what all that noise meant. Also, it seemed like they were trying to keep us guessing which one was crazy, the mom or the nanny...but they both just sounded neurotic. I'll have to put some of the blame on the narrators a bit because their performance was a little extra. Towards the end it seems like the blame is going to fall on Lucy. Once it was over, I have no idea what the plot was supposed to be and what the ending meant.

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Senseless

This story made no sense in had no plot and an entirely lame ending. I am glad it was free because it’s not worth a dollar

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Confused

There’s not much of a story here. I’m happy it was free. The title was poorly chosen

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Just feels incomplete to me

Certainly worth the time and the money. I would have been sorely disappointed if I had purchased. The format And presentation were good. I’ve heard a couple other stories ’performed’ and enjoy them.

I’m got the idea, it made me think more about single motherhood and needing the help of someone - but honestly this was lacking something. It ended leaving me feeling like we rushed through and left me feeling like something was missing.

Still, worth the time and money.

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what did I just listen to?

Great build up and held my attention and then.....*poof*. nothing... created more questions than it answered. It could be said that tales of this type force us to use our imagination and assume what happens.. but if I wanted to do that I would just write my own book, eh? Don't waste your time on this one. It was free and worth every penny.

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Shrill but good

a satirical look at employee employer relations between a clueless mother and a manipulative sociopath.

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It was worth the price...free

i don't normally leave reviews, but I had to for this one. The story, like everyone has mentioned, has great potential. Not sure where the twists and turns were, you could tell the nanny was cuckoo for cocopuffs during the interview before she was hired. The performance was top-notch, that's why I'm giving it 3 stars. However, the way the story abruptly ended with no answers nor resolution left a sour taste in my mouth. I probably would not listen to the sequel, glad it was a short story.

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Weird

Just weird; ended so abruptly. And why is it titled Lucy? Glad it was free.

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Eh

The reading seemed overacted. Story was interesting but it ended abruptly leaving a feeling that it was rushed and not well thought out. Fine for a free title. Not impressed.

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I was expecting more

I should have just listened to the majority of reviews. It was a quick listen but kind of a waste of time.

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