The Last Hairdresser-Queenly Comedy Teaser
By: Beau Higgins
The Rising Action Theatre Company announces its second production; The Last Hairdresser; a comedy by Doug Holsclaw. It will be performed at Boom, Now-August 20; Friday and Saturday at 7:30 and Sundays at 2:30. Boom is located at 2232 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. Tickets are $25 with a discount for groups. They are available by calling 954 567-8550 or you can also buy tickets at Gay Mart which is right next door to Boom.
The Last Hairdresser is a fast and furious farce about a fey airline steward who after being called "stewardess" for the last time, threatens to blow up the plane he is working on. His court ordered rehabilitation is vocational training as a hairdresser where he meets various snippy versions of himself. It is subtitled "the comic reconstruction of the bitchy queen."The Last Hairdresser was awarded best new play of 2002 by the San Francisco Bay Critics Circle. Reviews included:
"-drop dead hilarious." City Search
"witty, incisive and deliciously mean spirited." San Francisco Bay Times
"Steel Magnolias with a kinky twist." LA Times
Doug Holsclaw is a playwright and a stand up comic. He currently teaches stand up comedy and queer theatre at University of California, Santa Cruz. His plays include Knuckles and Crunch, The Plunge, Sin Sisters, The Baddest of Boys, The Life of the Party, and In the Summer When it's Hot and Sticky. His stand up comedy is featured on Wisecrack on the Logo Network. He also tours the country in Solo Shows.After an acclaimed production of "Southern Baptist Sissies, " David Goldyn, artistic director of Rising Action Theatre Company, once again directs. He has headed the Parks Shakespeare Company and The Acting Studio Company. His directing credits include Stray Dog Story and From Shirley Temple to Aimee Semple in Los Angeles. In Orlando, as Artistic Director of the Acting Studio Company, he directed Jeffrey, Ruthless, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, Fortune and Men's Eyes, PS Your Cat is Dead and others. He currently teaches theater at Broward Community College. He has an M.A. in theatre from NYU.
The play features Dwayne Tuttle and Noah Levine from Southern Baptist Sissies along with Emily Ocheltree, Eston Dunn, Troy Stanley, Steve Woollet, Brandon St. John.and Jack Livesey
"-drop dead hilarious." City Search
"witty, incisive and deliciously mean spirited." San Francisco Bay Times
"Steel Magnolias with a kinky twist." LA Times
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