Cleaner Than Blood

CLEANER THAN BLOOD at the Lounge Theatre

Jen Silverman’s gripping, high-tension one-act play starts out with small-time criminal types Paul (Austin Iredale) and Jeffrey (Kjai Block) hiding out in the wine cellar of an unoccupied east coast summer house as they plan their next moves. When a young woman by the name of Marr (Maggie Blake) surprises them by walking in and announcing that the place belongs to her uncle, who is expected to return the next day from an extended absence, the men take her hostage. Then, over the course of the evening, we slowly learn that none of these three desperadoes is at all who they say they are.

Even as these revelations reorient our understanding of the identities and relations at play among the trio, director Alexander Thomas Scott nicely allows the critical points to emerge not as jolting events that suddenly upend the whole world of the play as we&#8217...

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LOS ANGELES, April 30th, 2013 — AWARD-WINNING off-Broadway playwright Jen Silverman and director/producer Alexander Thomas Scott are excited to announce the WORLD PREMIERE of their newest play CLEANER THAN BLOOD, part of the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Paul and Jeffery are much more than just squatters in an abandoned basement; they’re schemers, waiting for just the right time to strike. But when they’re discovered by Marr, an ambitious young woman offering to hir...