London's "Summer of Love" comes to Center City in the Philly Fringe with the Philadelphia premiere of "Traveling Light" by Philadelphia playwright Lindsay Harris Friel. The play is directed by Liam Castellan and produced by Liam's Sofa Cushion Fortress in The Skybox at The Adrienne Theater, September 6-14, 2013. Tickets are $20 ($10 preview tickets available for the 9/6 performance) and can be purchased at the door or through the FringeArts Box Office at www.fringearts.com.
"Traveling Light" tragicomically explores the connections between acclaimed playwright Joe Orton (Doug Greene of Center City) and Beatles manager Brian Epstein (Bob Stineman of South Philadelphia), as well as the overlap between death, life and sex, rock and roll and theatre. They meet in a graveyard late at night in the summer of 1967 and break each other down over a script Epstein contracted Orton to write for the Beatles' next movie. Both men were homosexual (in varying degrees of openness) at a time when it had only just been decriminalized in England and spend much of the play evading or confronting the police (Kyra Baker of South Philadelphia as WPC Foster and Terence Gleeson of Wenonah, Gloucester County, NJ as Constable MacDonald). Within a few weeks, Orton would be bludgeoned to death by his lover and Epstein would be dead of an overdose.Photo Credit: Kyle Cassidy
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