LONGHORNS One-Act to Premiere at Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017

Longhorns, a one-act play, will premiere in the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017, with an opening night set for Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 6:30pm.

Tickets ($10) at hff17.com/4631, Visit www.facebook.com/longhornsHFF  for more information.

In a dingy doughnut shop in the mystical depths of Hollywood, celebrity aficionado Cindy and her co-worker Joe get an unexpected customer and another hum-drum day goes very sideways as their insecurities and ambitions take the reins. Combining direct drama with comic happenstance and fringe characters whose import suddenly rings with significance just as we least expected it, this ensemble of characters each have a very different story in the same thunder storm.

The Cast:

Zoë Simpson Dean (Cindy)

Shevalier Shehantha (Joe)

Vincent Isaac (Steve)

Ben Russell (Clu)

Ben Bradley (Jimmy Razor)

Illinois and Michigan native Benjamin Hoekstra migrated to Los Angeles in 2005 after graduating with majors in art and philosophy from a small midwestern liberal arts college. In California he has worked as a sound mixer, a storyboard artist, in construction and acting.

Cindy and Joe work at Sunshine Donutz, just another of the many doughnut shops in Los Angeles, serving everyone from the ragged homeless to celebrities. The appearance of an unexpected customer seems to push everyone in new directions while a long expected rainstorm seems to be building up outside.

A dramatic dark comedy. Ostensibly a chance intersection of social and economic tiers - the characters are an ensemble from different layers of the social strata - we are swept up by the strange and clashing forces of insecurity and ambition, quiet self-effacement, desperate theatricality, street smarts and one character's strange perception of the very structure of reality.

IF YOU GO:

Longhorns
By Benjamin Hoekstra
Directed by Benjamin Hoekstra

Cast: Zoë Simpson Dean, Shevalier Shahantha, Vincent Isaac, Ben Russell, Ben Bradley

WHEN
June 4 -24

PERFORMANCES
Sun. 6/4 6:30pm (opening night), Sat. 6/10 10:30pm, Mon. 6/12 8:30pm, Sun. 6/18 6pm, Sat. 6/24 1:30pm

WHERE
The Complex Theatres (The OMR Theatre) 6476 California Route 2 (Santa Monica Blvd.), Los Angeles, CA 90038