Clutter: The True Story of the Collyer Brothers Who Never Threw Anything Out

Please stay after the show to enjoy refreshments and a Talk Back lead by Illinois Licensed Clinical Psychcologist, Dr. Scott Kaplan, and Michael Kostroff (The Wire, Les Miserables and many other credits).  Michael Kostroff read the role of Langley Collyer in the recent NY Reading of Clutter.  Discussion topics will include hoarding, family relationships and audience reactions to the play.

What exactly happened in that Fifth Avenue mansion? This darkly fascinating true story is a murder mystery about the reclusive Collyer brothers who weren’t just rich, they were filthy rich. Homer Collyer is dead in his room. Langley Collyer is missing. And all of New York is shocked at what the police find inside the home of these wealthy brothers: Junk, trash, clutter -- crammed everywhere, piled up to the ceilings. What turned these old-money aristocrats into compulsively hoarding shut-ins? Who killed Homer Collyer? Where’s Langley? And what does their relentless obsession reveal about their lives -- and souls?