WHAT WOULD YOUR POSSESSIONS SAY ABOUT YOU IF THEY COULD TALK?

HOLLYWOOD, MAY 28, 2017— Part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Fallen Stars at the Charity Sale is the world premiere of an interactive improvisational play about sentient objects languishing at a charity sale hoping to be bought by you, the audience.

An ensemble cast portrays items with hopes, dreams, fears, and many stories to tell about their previous owners. But at any time, audience members can choose to step on stage and purchase one of these objects using fake money we provide. The object goes home with the buyer (literally, it’s yours now), the actor goes backstage, and the remaining objects react accordingly.

To keep the supply of characters up, audience members can donate an object to the show and take $5 off the ticket price (online sales only). Return to a subsequent show and see how your item is portrayed, and maybe even buy your object back.

Fallen Stars at the Charity Sale adapts the Norwegian larp (live action role play) Fallen Stars, created by Martin Nielsen and Magnar Müller, which was designed at a 2010 conference “as an attempt to create a game that both thematized materialism and acceptance of death.” The larp has seen several runs across Norway, as well as Sweden, Denmark, Poland, and the United States. This is the first time this has been brought to stage, and the first theatrical production by director/producer and veteran larper Aaron Vanek. Ross Cheung, co-founder of the Los Angeles Freeform and Theater Larp Collective considers Fallen Stars “one of my favorite larps.”

All shows occur in the Flight Theater at The Complex: 6472 Santa Monica, Hollywood 90038 (upstairs)
Friday, June 2 (preview) – 8:30pm
Saturday, June 10 – 4:30pm
Friday, June 16 – 11pm
Sunday, June 18 – 3pm
Saturday, June 24 – 7pm

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TICKETS: hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4187
CONTACT: Aaron Vanek, 323-719-3018 or [email protected]