Annette O'Toole Opens Tomorrow at Edinburgh Fringe in HAMLET IN BED
Direct from its original hit Off-Broadway season, HAMLET IN BED (4* TIME OUT NY Critics Choice), a downtown-noir-thriller about sex, death, and the world's most famous play by award-winning writer/performer Michael Laurence opens at The Pleasance, Edinburgh on 3 August (press from 6 August).
Michael is a neurotic actor and adoptee obsessed with two things- finding his real mother, and playing the famous Gloomy Dane. His twin fixations collide when he tracks down Anna, a reclusive former actress-turned-barfly; gripped by the notion that she might be his actual birth-mother, he first stalks her from a distance, then lures her into a noirish production of Hamlet playing the role of the queen, his mother.
Hamlet In Bed is a twisty and darkly comic story about mothers and sons. About what it means to live a life in the theatre, both a generation ago, and now. And about families: the ones we're born into, and the ones we find along the way.
Directed by Obie Award-winner Lisa Peterson, starring Oscar & Emmy nominated actress Annette O'Toole (Smallville).
Watch the trailer from the show's off-Broadway run below!
Michael Laurence also wrote and will perform in the critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway hit KRAPP, 39 at the Pleasance Courtyard, Bunker One throughout August. For more, go to www.michaellaurence.net.
LISTINGS INFORMATION:
HAMLET IN BED
Venue: The Pleasance Courtyard (Pleasance One),
The Pleasance, Edinburgh
Dates and Times: 3 - 29 August at 12.20 (not 10, 16, 23 August)
Running Time: 75 mins
Tickets: 3, 4, 5 August - all tickets £6
15, 22, 29 August £9 (£8)
11, 17, 18, 24, 25 August £10.50 (£9.50)
6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 August
£11.50 (£10.50)
Box Office: www.pleasance.co.uk
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