Clutter:
The True Story of the Collyer Brothers Who Never Threw Anything Out
Colony Theater (Los Angeles) ● Greenhouse Theater (Chicago) ● Lompoc (CA) Civic Theatre
Productions
Langley Collyer is missing and Homer Collyer is found dead amongst floor-to-ceiling piles of newspapers, books, and junk. The police investigating the case, two brothers with a strained relationship mirroring that of the Collyers, are simultaneously making discoveries about themselves.
Playwright: Mark Saltzman
“Mark Saltzman’s pseudo-documentary murder mystery, “Clutter” is charming delightful and wonderfully well-staged….He has written an entertainment that is wise, generous and witty.”
— Hollywood Reporter
More Reviews
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"A packrat’s motto: “This could be worth something someday.” Mark Saltzman’s new play “Clutter” is already worth a lot….this examination of the Collyer brothers, the world’s most famous packrats, is shamelessly entertaining…But Saltzman doesn’t depict the Collyers as completely weird. By the end, he makes a broader point about the common human insecurities that surely contributed to the Collyers’ problems…richly comic…brilliant…"
— Los Angeles Times
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"t is Saltzman’s writing and Rick Sparks’ compelling production, deploying comedy to tackle a subject one would expect to find approached with hushed naturalism, that give this play tensile strength and the power of an impassioned fable. What Saltzman does, with extraordinary humorous compassion, is to use the tale of the Collyer Brothers to also portray the same strained relationship of the two brother cops involved in the unfolding drama…”Clutter” is a great play."
— Burbank Leader