SCHACHNER VS. SCHACHNER
BEYOND - Schachner Vs. Schachner
Combined Artform’s The Encore! Producer’s Award
presents the second extension of
The World Premiere of Schachner Vs. Schachner
Written and Performed by Abby Schachner
Directed by Abby Schachner and J Warner
Production Design by J Warner
SEE ABBY FIGHT!
http://bit.ly/SCHACHNER
Schachner Vs. Schachner @ the Asylum Lab
Fridays at 8pm, September 12th – October 24th
Now featuring a FREE post-show artist salon with more performances, food and drink, fun and danger!
LOS ANGELES, CA — Announcing the extension of The World Premiere of Schachner Vs. Schachner, a dark autobiographical comedy written and performed by Abby Schachner, Fridays at 8pm from September 12th through October 24th.
If you long for all the hoopla of a Vegas-style fight without leaving the comforts of a small theatre, then Schachner Vs. Schachner is the show for you!
Nominated for BEST SOLO SHOW Fringe Freak Award and BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE Spirit of the Fringe Award — Hollywood Fringe Festival 2014
OFFICIAL SELECTION!
2014 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE ENCORE SERIES (Theatre Asylum)
PICK OF THE FRINGE! by Combined Artform
Stage Raw says RECOMMENDED!
“Tragic” “Hilarious” “Heartbreaking”
Check out Schachner’s domination of the Bitter Lemons ‘Fringemeter’ and over 40 rave reviews here: http://fringe.bitter-lemons.com/
Buy tickets at http://bit.ly/SCHACHNER
The creator of nine solo shows (tackling everything from fear to eating disorders to abortions), Abby is back with the world premiere of Schachner Vs. Schachner— a show where she gets down and dirty ‘in the ring’ with herself, her past, and her parents newspaper-worthy divorce, which includes a hit-man, an undercover cop, and plenty of ‘evidence’ — but with the swift footwork of a Champ, Abby fights to the end in a quest for the “Truth”.
People who enjoy sophisticated, neurotic black comedy with family/identity themes will love Schachner Vs. Schachner. A tried and true performer, the LA WEEKLY, THE CHICAGO READER, and THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE have compared Abby to Andy Kaufman, Gilda Radner, Monty Python and Lenny Bruce, but Abby brings her own brand of modern pathos to the Asylum stage.
Abby was also the Winner of the Best Solo Show Award at the San Francisco Fringe for both ‘The Anything Show’ and ‘Shadow Kissers’. Now she’s back to jab, punch, and literally pick her own brains apart, all in the name of ‘art’.
So come see her 9th solo show in the extension of Schachner Vs. Schachner for the Encore! Producer’s Award — and let her entertain you!
Schachner Vs. Schachner
The Feel-Bad Comedy of the Year!
FOR YOUR LISTINGS: Schachner Vs. Schachner
Every Friday at 8pm between September 12th and October 24th
General Admission tickets cost $10, with special offers being announced all the time!
For tickets, reviews and information — http://bit.ly/SCHACHNER
“Welcome to the Fight of the Century!”
Review by Steven Leigh Morris on StageRaw.com:
Another top-tier show defies the pattern of strong performances having a history. Abby Schachner’s one-woman show Schachner Vs. Schachner (Theatre Asylum) is a world premiere. It also defies the warning against using literal autobiography as the foundation for performance. There are two sets of parallel combatants in Schachner’s quasi courtroom drama (preserved in newspaper clippings), in which she sifts through the charges filed against her father that he hired an assassin to off her mother during a divorce that redefines the word acrimony. Abby was an infant during all this, and now she’s trying to put the pieces together – is it possible her dad was set up? One set of combatants is obviously her parents, the other is her heart and her soul, trying to reconcile this sordid episode of family history. Abby is a vivacious and personable performer – she was dropping lines and losing composure during the preview I saw. Even so, as a work very much in progress, this is a fascinating saga that speaks to the dubious nature of empirical evidence and the depths of hatred that can foment within marriage. And then there’s the comedy: “Is it true you left $11,000 in the glove compartment [for the assassin],” she asks her father. “That’s not true!” he replies, indignant at the libel. “It was only $10,000.”
Selected Reviews from the Fringe website (there are 45 ‘Amazing’ reviews there):
Martin Olson, certified reviewer
I have never seen a one person show like this one by Abby Schachner. It was a deeply emotionally experience and a nonstop assault on the senses. Her mind-blowing story was unleashed with incredible raw intensity and balanced by a playful intelligence and crazy sense of humor. The surreal story she reveals about her parents is performed with surprising precision and powerful energy that is both hysterical and touching. Schachner is an amazing performer, a tornado of weird brilliance and a new important voice to be reckoned with. This show should be expanded and produced off-broadway. It’s really that original, shocking and profound. Easily the best one person show I have seen in years.
Regan Linton, certified reviewer
Abby is f*cking awesome. This is my idea of everything a good solo show should be: deeply personal, a little unhinged, unapologetic, full of energy, well-crafted, and with a vital purpose for telling the story. If you’re not gonna put it all out there, why do it?! I love that the aesthetic of the show mirrors what seems to be Abby’s personal and intellectual aesthetic: imperfect, unpolished (intentionally crafted so), and scattered, but with the ability to settle into a grounded place of truth that – literally – packs a punch. As an audience member, I felt like the best friend rooting on a teetering fighter (mind you, I just met Abby during Fringe…but she has an openness that allows for immediate connection, which is refreshing). Her emotion was real, always in-the-moment, and I appreciated her generosity in sharing. And the spaghetti had me in hysterics (btw, one of my favorite foods is spaghetti with ketchup).
Thanks, Abby, for reminding me of why theatre is a necessary and powerful tool for making meaning out of life.
Maureen Herman, author
When I left the theater last weekend after seeing the indelible one-woman show Schachner vs. Schachner, I wanted to share what I just saw with my best friends, my sister, my high school locker-mate, my pharmacist, and HBO comedy executives if I knew any. There were no beverages sold at this theater, and good thing because the audience would be drenched in each other’s legitimate spit takes. Yes, it was that funny.
But the reason I want everyone to see it is because Abby Schachner truly puts her actual self out there, and what is revealed—in her dysfunctional, poignant, horrifying, shameless, hysterical, surprising, artful and vivid story—is a tremendously courageous and gifted artist. The sense I got that she hasn’t yet embraced her own comic genius only magnifies her vulnerability and appeal, and made me want to write a review of her show on Facebook, despite the fact that I normally don’t do that kind of thing. Or go to the theater much.
Abby Schachner is a star who doesn’t know she’s a star, who isn’t officially a star yet, but who I know I will see on a screen of some size or another and will say, “Oh, I saw her in a play where there were like 30 people in the audience and she greeted people as they were seated,” and my friends—as well as my locker-mate and pharmacist—will be jealous and disbelieving.
If you want to witness an exceptional personal triumph while being completely entertained, go see one of the just-extended shows of this one-human gem. Miss it at your own peril—or certainly that of fulfilling your life’s capacity for wonderful experiences.
