Rogue Machine Presents Shorts & Sweets
By: Gabrielle Sierra
Multi-award winning Rogue Machine launches their popular seasonal offering of original short plays. SHORTS & SWEETS includes DOG IS DEAD by Henry Murray, BREEDERS by Kevin Armento, I MIGHT DO by Marja Lewis-Ryan, and BIT OF A BLOW by Lynn Lobban.
Last season, Rogue Machine's FOUR PLACES garnered 3 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards (including PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR), 5 Garland Awards (including PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR, and the Ovation Award for BEST PRODUCTON. This season the company has garnered 5 Ovation nominations (Direction, Ensemble, 2 Best Actor nominations, and Production).SHORTS & SWEETS runs Friday and Saturday nights at 10:30pm, November 11th through December 17, 2011 (no performances 11/25 & 11/26). ROGUE MACHINE is located at 5041 W. Pico Blvd., LA, CA 90019. Tickets are $15. Reservations: 855-585-5185 or at http://roguemachinetheatre.com The cast includes Brenda Davidson, Becky Wu, David Combs, Elain Rinehart, Jeanne Syquia, Jeff Blum, Jennifer Allcott, Jim Bolesen, Parker Mills, Penny Orloff, Sarayu Rao, and Susannah Myrvold.DESCRIPTION: Four world premiere short plays presented with original, homemade sweets. DOG IS DEAD is a dark and funny short about a young woman grieving for her deceased pet. BREEDERS is a satirical and touching piece about an activist protesting puppy mills who suddenly finds herself in a political debate with a talking dog. I MIGHT DO finds a cast of long-time friends pondering marriage, commitment and now-legal gay marriage in the back room as one of them is about to be wed to her gay lover. BIT OF A BLOW is a short, dark comedy about an elderly couple dealing with the husband's recent casual infidelity.
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