Tiny Feats of Cowardice
is a new musical by Susan Bernfield & Rachel Peters, directed by Daniella Topol

“A very winning performance, and a very winning play.”

– Aaron Riccio, New Theater Corps

"She makes each fear pull its weight, emotionally and comically."

-- Time Out New York (4 stars)

"Captures with wit, precision and intelligence the fear and anxiety that goes along with a lifetime of experiences... an ambitious jazzy score by Rachel Peters" -- talkinbroadway.com

“Really terrific theatre! If you, like me, are a person who's ever stopped before entering the subway trying to remember whether you locked your door or unplugged your coffee pot, you're bound to ruefully recognize some of your own paranoid foibles; if you're one of the lucky few who breezes through life with blithe confidence, then you'll learn a lot about how the rest of us live.” – Loren Noveck, nytheatre.com

a new musical

with words by Susan Bernfield

(she also performs it)

& music by Rachel Peters...

it's directed by Daniella Topol

returning this July for 2 performances only!

a little commentary on
the 2008 FringeNYC production:

“An affecting piece.”
– The Village Voice

“These guys aren’t using the Fringe to launch improbable projects or careers; they’re workshopping a solid Off Broadway project-in-progress. The “tiny feats” of the title are the small victories that keep the perpetually scared Bernfield—phobic of heights, planes, people—not just among the “functioning fearful” but solidly in with the “pathetically high-functioning.” With help from a very capable backup band, she makes each fear pull its weight, emotionally and comically.”
-- Time Out New York

“Susan Bernfield's latest is exactly what it claims to be: a tiny feat, for Bernfield is captivating throughout, an Everywoman who, aided by Rachel Peters' music, denounces single engine Cessnas, the constant worry of being a mother, the neverending precipices of the world and its possibilities. The end result comes across like a Sondheim chamber musical. It's a very winning performance, and a very winning play."
– New Theatre Corps

"If the show were just a list of one woman's fears, it might be good therapy but it wouldn't necessarily be good theatre. And TINY FEATS is really terrific theatre. Bernfield has a sharp ear for the telling detail and the clear-eyed honesty to turn those powers of observation on herself. She's still trying to work out the eternal battle between living in fear and just letting go, right up to the moment in which she stands before us singing about it, and that internal struggle is both funny and touching."
-- nytheatre.com

photos: Dixie Sheridan

susan@newgeorges.org