DRUNKS Returns to the Kansas City Stage

An actress desperate for relevancy, an actor aching for an Oscar, and a screenwriter who just wants respect are sequestered in a hotel room until they agree on script changes for the film they're making. To complicate things, the actors have smuggled in huge amounts of booze and coke.

This is the set-up of KC playwright Pete Bakely's "play about excess" aptly titled Drunks. After a wildly successful run during the 2014 Kansas City Fringe Festival, Whim Productions is remounting Drunks this March on Stage 2 at MTH Theater in Crown Center.

"When Pete joined Whim as our Resident Playwright, one of the first things he told me was that he'd extended Drunks from one to two acts. There was no question that Whim would do a remount of the show," said Kevin King, Whim's Producing Artistic Director. "I still remember laughing uncontrollably during the original production. And being kind of grossed out during one scene even though I couldn't stop laughing." King concluded, "Only Pete Could write something that's simultaneously so depraved and so smart."

Drunks, Bakely says, is about "the creative spark and the absurd lengths we sometimes go to achieve it."

Drunks features Rebecca Ralstin, as the actress fighting for legitimacy; Kyle Dyck, as the actor seeking gold; Curtis Smith, as the beleaguered screenwriter; and Emma Carter, as the precocious producer with rabid ambition. The multi-talented Katie Gilchrist helms the new production. Stage management is provided by Megan Kroeger.

Drunks runs from 3/16 - 3/31/2017 at the MTH Theater, Stage 2. 3rd Floor of Crown Center.

Tickets will be $20 (plus a $3 ticketing fee). Watch www.whimproductions.com for details.