Wallis' Play Solicitation Runs at FringeNYC, August 18-23

Discombobulatory Theatre will presents the world premiere of Solicitation, by Gib Wallis.  The show will run as part of the New York International Fringe Festival from August 18th through August 23rd at the Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond Street).

Featured in the cast are Ciro Barbaro,* Carolann DiPirro* and Wallis. Nancy Hendrickson directs.

"Two men and a call-girl: When does business become personal?  When does a client become a lover? When you stop taking money?  Or start asking for more? Solicitation is new play about asking favors...and getting some...," state press notes.

New Jersey native Wallis attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, studying writing and musical theatre.  While studying in London, the literary manager of the Royal Court awarded his playwriting portfolio a "first," and noted British playwright Alan Ayckbourne chose Wallis's first play as runner-up for a world-wide playwriting contest. In LA, he performed plays-in-development at the Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop and Festival, taking master classes with Jon Robin Baitz, David Henry Hwang and Maria Irene Fornes, and received his MFA from USC's School of Cinema-Television. Nymphony In 12-D, his bedroom farce with original pop songs, was given a concert reading at the Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica, California.

The show will run: Fri. 8/18 at 8pm, Sat. 8/19 at 2:15pm, Sun. 8/20 at 10pm, Tues 8/22 at 5:30pm and Wed. 8/23 at 10:15pm. The Gene Frankel Theatre is located at 24 Bond Street (at Lafayette). 

Tickets are $15; visit www.FringeNYC.org or call (212)279-4488 (in New York) or (888)FringeNYC (outside New York).