Hamlet-Mobile

LOS ANGELES, July 8, 2015—The immersive and intimate Hollywood Fringe hit HAMLET-MOBILE is extending for three nights only through a co-production with Bootleg Theater on July 10, 11, and 17 in the Bootleg Theater parking lot. Called “simply deliciously what Fringe and what theatre is all about” by Gia on the Move, HAMLET-MOBILE invites audience members, one or two at time, into the eponymous theater van for 15-minute plays inspired by and utilizing the language of Hamlet—and performed just for them.

HAMLET-MOBILE’s run at the Hollywood Fringe Festival resulted in nominations for Best of Dance and Physical Theatre and Orgasmico Theatre Co.’s O-Face Award for Most Orgasmic Production, as well as dozens of performances for delighted audience members. Anthony Byrnes of KCRW’s Opening the Curtain says Hamlet-Mobile “leaves you wanting more in both good and challenging ways.” Steven Leigh Morris of LA Weekly says, “It blurs the divide between theater and life in another, enthralling em

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IMMERSIVE, INTIMATE HAMLET-MOBILE ROLLS INTO HOLLYWOOD FRINGE
IT’S HAMLET…IN A VAN

LOS ANGELES, May 18, 2015—Hamlet-Mobile is an immersive, intimate adaptation of Hamlet staged in a van and hitting the streets of Hollywood in June for the 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Presenting a rotating rep of eight short plays inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Hamlet-Mobile will travel to various locations around the Hollywood Fringe Festival. At each stop, the four actors of Hamlet-Mobile will park the van and perform for tiny audiences of two to four people, repeating the short play of the day several times over the course of the performance period. Like a food truck, the Hamlet-Mobile will only announce where it is going and which of the eight plays it is performing the day of the event via twitter (@HamletMobile), its website (hamlet-mobile.com) and on the Hollywood Fringe site (hff15.or