Gentle Passage

Gentle Passage
Fierce Backbone’s production of Gentle Passage portrays the transformation of two juxtaposed characters that become unlikely best friends through a clinical drug trial. Anna is a bitchy, academic researcher working for a pharmaceutical company set to the task of documenting drug efficacy by collecting subject life stories. Joe is a gentle, but straightforward gay man with a horribly tragic past suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Unwittingly overcome by empathy for Joe, Anna morphs into a decent human being that is greatly affected by the premature devastation of Joe’s mind. Gentle Passage relentlessly throws horror-schemes at the audience to the point that they almost become ridiculous. Just think of something bad, and you name it, it is probably mentioned in this play. Schizophrenia? You got it. Pedophilia? You get that lots of that. How about some incest, cancer, shock treatments, dementia, divorce, widowhood, brutal child abuse, bloody kitch...

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Contact: Jeffrey Wylie
Producer/Fierce Backbone
Phone: 323-445-1029
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FIERCE BACKBONE
DOES THE
HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL

GENTLE PASSAGE is one of 7 productions being produced by Fierce Backbone in the Hollywood Fringe Fest this June.

GENTLE PASSAGE
Written by Paul Elliott with Ed Joswick
Directed by Paul Messinger

Anna is a no-nonsense psychologist going for tenure, but