The Porters of Hellsgate are excited to be part of this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival. We’re so excited to be a part of it, in fact, that we’re presenting not one, but two shows! All information for both wonderful shows below:
The Porters of Hellsgate present
Orwellian
A One-Man Show starring Larry Cedar
Produced by The Porters of Hellsgate
in Association with The Orwell Estate
Actor Larry Cedar (Deadwood, The Crazies) developed the script and stars in this dark examination of the work of an author so prescient that his name has become an adjective. Enter the dystopian world of George Orwell via this one-hour adaptation based on three of his most popular works. Through his literary prism, visit the chaotic kitchens of Down & Out in Paris & London, a barnyard on the brink of creature revolt in Animal Farm, and the futuristic hell that is 1984.
“I became captivated with the idea of creating a performance piece which might encapsulate some of Orwell’s essential theses; the fundamentally tragic nature of human existence, the inherent evils of mankind, countered only by its likewise irrepressible desire for justice, freedom, and joy. I began with an attempt to distill 1984 down to a form which might be conveyed by one man playing a handful of characters. As my work continued I added pieces from two of his other better known works. Now, as we put this “cautionary tale” on its feet, it is my sincerest hope that we’ve managed to somehow captivate Orwell’s deep empathy for man’s struggle to find peace in the face of overwhelming odds, a struggle made nearly impossible by those who would attempt to exploit this struggle for their own purposes through ultimately repressive means.”
- Larry Cedar
Orwellian plays at Theatre of NOTE, 1517 N. Cahuenga Blvd. at The Hollywood Fringe Festival in rep with Jamey Hecht’s Limousine, Midnight Blue. Orwellian features a preview performance on Saturday, June 8th, at 10pm, followed by a limited engagement run playing Saturday, June 15th, at 12:15am and 3:30pm, Thursday, June 20th, at 8pm, Friday, June 28th, at 10pm, and Sunday, June 30th, at 10:30pm. Orwellian has a run time of 1 hour, with no intermission.
The Porters of Hellsgate present
Limousine, midnight blue
A One-Man Show starring Jamey Hecht
Produced by The Porters of Hellsgate
In this year of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination, Jamey Hecht presents a one-man, multimedia sight and sound show: Limousine, Midnight Blue, based on his 2009 book from Red Hen Press, Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film, at Theatre of NOTE.
Limousine is a sequence of 36 poems of 14 lines each. It uses the famous and appalling “Zapruder Film” of JFK’s death as a prism through which to view America and the world. Refracted rays touch on crime and punishment; guilt and responsibility; charisma and love; the dying victim’s experience during the stretched-out seconds of his violation and death; and the dark world of war profiteering, narco-traffic, and deceit where the facts of power determine history. Epic tradition (e.g., Homer, Dante, Milton) shares the stage with science, religion, and popular culture. Limousine, Midnight Blue is a haunted show based on a haunted book about a haunted film of an event whose hungry ghosts still walk the American unconscious, rattling their chains louder every year.
Limousine plays at Theatre of NOTE, 1517 N. Cahuenga Blvd. at The Hollywood Fringe Festival in rep with Larry Cedar’s Orwellian. Limousine features a preview performance on Saturday, June 8th, at 8pm, followed by a limited engagement run playing Thursday, June 13th, at 10pm, Saturday, June 15th, at 1:30pm, Sunday, June 23rd, at 10:30pm, Thursday, June 27th, at 8pm, and Sunday, June 30th, at 12:15am. Limousine, Midnight Blue has a run time of 1 hour, with no intermission.
Tickets for either show are $10. Reservations can be made online via HollywoodFringe.org.
Reservations can also be made via our e-mail or voice mail.
Information line/voice mail: 818-325-2055
E-mail questions/comments/reservations to: PortersofHellsgate@gmail.com
PRESS CONTACT: ALEX PARKER – PorterofPress@gmail.com