Mad Horse's Dark Night Series Returns With HEARTBREAK HELP 6/7-16

Mad Horse Theatre's Dark Night Series presents the hilarious one-act comedy, Heartbreak Help, by Justin Tanner. The play opens on June 7 and runs on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings through June 16, at the Studio Theater at Portland Stage Company, 25A Forest Avenue, Portland. Admission is by donation only, with a suggested donation of $10.

Heartbreak Help

tells the story of four women attending a women's empowerment conference in the Joshua Tree Desert. Having signed up late for the conference, the four strangers find themselves sharing a room in a low-budget motel. Each woman is there for her own reasons, and the play follows their triumphs, trials and insights as they encounter a range of new age practitioners and hypesters. Hilarious and touching, Heartbreak Help is a gentle satire about the exploitation and hypocrisy of the multi-million dollar self-help/new-age industry and the individuals they prey upon.

Justin Tanner has long been a favorite of Los Angeles theatergoers, who have reveled in such zany plays as Zombie Attack, Pot Mom and Barbie and Ken at Home, among several others. Mad Horse Theatre Company recently delighted Portland audiences with the East Coast Premier of Tanner's Voice Lessons.

Heartbreak Help features Brunswick's Theater Project favorites Heather Perry, Wendy Poole, Emily Weddle, and Michele Livermore Wigton. Directing is Mad Horse Company member Chris Horton.

Heartbreak Help, by Justin Tanner

When: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, June 7-June 16. 8:00pm

Where: The Studio Theater at Portland Stage Company, 25A Forest Avenue, Portland.

Admission: Suggested Donation of $10

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