LAIST Listing!
June 18, 2015LAist.com writes:
http://laist.com/2015/06/11/fringe_fest_2015_previews.php
4 Interesting Shows We Checked Out At The 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival
SPLIT/SCREEN
An accident while traveling in the Himalayas has just left Kit (Alex Montaldo), a young man with an extremely wealthy father, paralyzed at the beginning of Monique Witt’s drama “Split/Screen.” Now confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, Kit is desperate to reorient his identity away from what he sees as his family legacy, but it’s not easy: “The problem with structural lies…is that they’re part of us.You can’t leave them behind without leaving yourself behind.”
Kit wants to spend all his money to help his fellow hospital patient Rufus (Adam Rashad Glenn) recover from the debilitating asthma that is likely to end his life, but their doctor (Fran Montano), whose own family is also in the throes of tragedy, tells Kit the system doesn’t work that way. A psychotherapist (Chris Karmiol), furthermore, disco
...Press Release May 4, 2015
May 04, 2015OneTrickDog* presents
split/screen
A Play by Monqiue Witt
in the Hollywood Fringe Festival
Ten Performances at The Actors Company
in West Hollywood
June 5th – June 21
www.hollywoodfringe.org ;
www.splitscreentheplay.com
New York, NY – (May 4, 2015) OneTrickDog* is pleased to announce the West Coast premier of Monique Witt’s split/screen at the Hollywood Fringe Festival on June 5th, 2015. split/screen explores the spirtual and psychological transformation of a wealthy and jaded young man, Kit, who suffers a freak accident that crushes his spine, after a successful summit of Everest. Transferred to an ER in El Barrio, he is befriended by a charismatic street hustler freestyling his way through life on the margin and an ER doctor whose son is critically ill. Their profound humanity helps Kit to come to terms with his radically changed life and to explore his emerging sense of purpose.
split/screen will be directed by Wendy Thum and run fo
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