WILL PLAY FOR FOOD ASKS LOCAL ARTISTS TO FEED YOUR FRINGE!

It's Important to Leave, as well (Feed Your Fringe)

The new company addresses the importance of specific moments in a person’s life with a unique project they will continue to develop all the way up to opening night of Fringe

LOS ANGELES – Director Scott Marden was asked why he would helm a show that had a loose structure with an even looser starting point that would develop all the way up to opening night. He responded:

“Because the idea absolutely terrifies us.”

His company Will Play For Food Theatre Group will bring Feed Your Fringe in some incarnation to the Hollywood Fringe Festival for six shows from June 8-30 at the Theatre Asylum Lab.

Using Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey as a guide, the show will develop organically over the course of the next six weeks utilizing improv and viewpoint exercises to devise characters and scenes. This unique show, which will not be fully realized until opening night, will explore the question, “How important is any given moment in your life?”

“We’re exploring whether or not we are even capable of recognizing these moments of importance, let alone be completely alive and aware in them,” Marden said. “We go through so many moments in our lives, and tend to only be aware of them and their significance long after they’re gone.”

The company will work with a local playwright who will help organize collaborative material that comes out of rehearsal into a coherent storyline. Marden, who has directed locally as well as in Oregon and Oakland, where he helped found the acclaimed Oak Tech Rep, said he was excited to return to the Hollywood Fringe (he directed The Nina Variations at last year’s festival) and especially thrilled to take on this kind of challenge.
“We’ll be pushing the limits of our creativity in an effort to bring something new and exciting to the Fringe Audience,” he said. “We feel the Fringe is all about challenging yourself to experience something new, no matter how terrifying it may seem; making it the perfect venue for a show like this.”
As a bonus, audiences will be able to follow the construction and development of the piece on Facebook (www.facebook.com/willplayforfoodTG), Twitter (www.twitter.com/PlayForFoodTG) and especially Tumblr (www.willplayforfoodtg.tumblr.com), where the company will be posting images, videos and ideas that come from rehearsals.