United Solo Festival Presents EAT PRAY LAUGH, 11/13
Amid a flurry of parodies of the recent movie release of Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love" one notable piece stands out. It is the work of comedian Alicia Dattner, and it a much more comical take on traveling to find oneself, but also a poignant one. After a knockout world premiere at the San Francisco Fringe last year, "Eat, Pray Laugh!" blows into New York's United Solo Festival on November 13, 2010. Dattner, winner of the SF Fringe's "Best Female Solo Act" & "Best of the Fringe", brings her award-winning solo show "Eat, Pray, Laugh!" to NY fresh off an 18-week, thrice-extended run of the show in SF and a world tour with stops in London, Mumbai, and Hollywood, which featured live pre-show kirtan chanting and authentic India chai and prasad (sweets).
The production will take place at Theatre ROW, 410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036. Tickets are $20 at the door and online at http://unitedsolo.org/UnitedSolo/ufest.html.
Eat, Pray, Laugh!, directed by Katie Rubin, chronicles Alicia's three-month solo trip across India in search of spiritual salvation - which turns out to look nothing like she imagined. From seductive French yoga teachers to scary Indian toilets, Alicia dishes on everything including the Italian fashion exporter with a Krishna fetish and mosquitoes the size of small ponies, to Chabad Jews on the Ganges and ultimately, the true meaning of mustaches and masala chai.
Winner of the San Francisco Fringe Festival's Best of the Fringe and Best Female Solo Performer Awards for her first solo show in 2008, Alicia's turn to solo performance two years ago has gone well. She performed standup comedy for over a decade, sharing the stage with brilliant, talented performers such as Bill Santiago, Eugene Mirman, Arj Barker, W. Kamau Bell, Vanda Mikoloski, and Amy Stiller. Alicia has been a regular at Cobb's Comedy Club and The Punch Line in San Francisco, and has performed at The Improv and the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, as well as Gotham Comedy Club and Ha in New York and Gut Rocking Comedy in London. She also has published a hilarious self-help book, Getting Shit Done, hosted a show on Pirate Cat Radio, and started a circus called The Latest Show on Earth, which toured nationally. She is currently writing her third solo show. http://www.aliciadattner.com
About Director Katie Rubin: She received her MFA in Acting from UC Davis and earned her BA in Theater and Dance at Amherst College; Her first solo show, Insides OUT! received a nine week production at The Sacramento Theater Company. www.katierubin.com
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