PLEASE TAKE A SEAT Premiers at San Diego Fringe Festival

"Five waiting rooms...one offbeat journey."

• It's fascinating, what you discover about people in a waiting room. Especially when things get awkward. Hannah's life is all about being in control...until it's not. A bit dark, a bit funny, and more than a bit compelling, come and take your seat for one offbeat journey.

"I'm excited to explore the themes in Please Take a Seat because they're major themes in my own life, said Jennifer Eve Thorne, director. "I often feel like I have to excel at so many things at the same time. But that's impossible. Working on a comedy that teaches me to laugh about the ways in which life often forces you to just sit down and wait is a welcome opportunity."

About San Diego Fringe

San Diego International Fringe Festival is a project of Contact Arts, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2003 along with Actors Alliance of San Diego with the purpose building a network of creativity & communication. Contact Arts & AASD aim to connect ideas with social action through progressive performance & community engaged projects.

What: Please Take a Seat: Hannah's offbeat journey experienced through five (awkward) waiting rooms.

Featuring: Directed by Jennifer Eve Thorne. Performed by: Paul Araujo, Joel Castellaw, Deirdre Maloney, M Susan Peck, and Lydia Real. Written and produced by Deirdre Maloney

Where: SDAI Project Space: 141 Horton Plaza (next to Victoria's Secret

Friday, 6/23: 9:00pm, Saturday, 6/24: 4:00pm, Sunday, 6/25: 10:30pm, Tuesday, 6/27: 6:00pm, Sunday, 7/2: 6:00pm. Tickets & Passes: www.sdfringe.org

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