DOUBLE BIND Takes Double Win at 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival
Hollywood's hottest new dramedy play 'Double Bind' (www.doublebindtheplay.com) which premiered at the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival this month, picked up two awards last night 'Best of Fringe Extensions' and 'Best Writer' from its run at the Theatre Asylum in Hollywood.
Directed by the award winning director and LA Weekly Awards nominated director Aaron Lyons, 'Double Bind' was written by the exceptionally talented actorBlake Shields Abramovitz ('Tekken', 'Heroes'), who last night picked up the 'Best Writer' award for his passion project, and also stars in the play as Frank.
'Double Bind' is a two-act drama in the tradition of Sam Shepard and David Rabe. It focuses on two friends, Sam, played by Clark Freeman ('Yellow Brick Road'), and Frank who once traveled the world together having all kinds of wild adventures. They chased women, took mind-expanding drugs, and made music together. As the play begins, Sam, an intellectual and a poet at heart, has settled down with a serious, passionate woman, Laura, played by British actress Ceri Bethan ('Dirty Little Trick'), and a real job. Frank, a charismatic but profoundly damaged street-singer and hustler, is still out living his unbridled neo-beatnik life. But he desperately misses the only true friend he ever had; and so he shows up and sets about trying to upend Sam and Laura's incipient cozy life, in what becomes a 'tug of war' between friendship and love with a conflicted Sam in the middle.
For future performances of 'Double Bind' check online at: www.doublebindtheplay.com.
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