Denzil Meyers Premieres UNREEL at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018
A riff on Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, UNREEL recreates a foolish young man's uncertain journey to his dark side, on the night before his college entrance exams. A comedic and poignant personal journey, demonstrating the confusing truth of philosopher Sören Kierkegaard's maxim: "Life must lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards." UNREEL, written and performed by actor, theatre clown, and Comedy Death Star podcast host DENZIL MEYERS premiers at 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Opens June 3rd at Studio C Artists - 6448 Santa Monica Blvd, LA CA 90038. Five shows.
In UNREEL, Meyers plays three characters - all parts of himself - to map his quest for personal meaning and philosophical certainty. The arrogant NARRATOR, the insecure WRITER, and the angsty 17-year old DENNY are all true ... yet contradictory, and illumine our life-long struggle to understand our place in our world.
The three characters in UNREEL pull from a wide variety of high and low sources: the Bible, John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, hallucinogenic drugs, Kierkegaard, Nietzche, Parsifal and the Quest for the Holy Grail, musical pioneers Devo, the history of clowns and the ancient Trickster archetype, Rene Descartes, Annie Hall, Hamlet, Mel Brooks, and post-modern somatics and dance. But do they know where they are going? Should they? Can they?
TICKETS: $15.00 - http://hff18.org/5122
PERFORMANCES:
Sunday, June 3 at 5:30 pm
Thursday, June 7 at 8:30 pm
Friday, June 15 at 11:30pm
Wednesday, June 20 at 5:30 pm
Saturday, June 23 at 9:00 pm.
WHERE: Studio C Artists - 6448 Santa Monica Blvd, LA, CA 90038ABOUT THE WRITER
Denzil Meyers hosts the Comedy Death Star podcast, and is an actor and theatre clown. For the San Francisco stage, he wrote and directed "Fun: The Concept", a stage adaptation of Bill Griffith's long-running underground comic, Zippy the Pinhead, and directed several other plays, musicals, and one-person shows. During the day, Denzil works in ad agencies as a strategist and consumer researcher. He's also a founder of the Applied Improvisation Network, an international community using improvisation in business, education, and for social change.
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