UNREEL — 3 CHARACTERS EXPLORE WHO THEY THINK THEY ARE

UnReel

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — May 19, 2018

Host of the Comedy Death Star podcast, Denzil Meyers, Premieres
UNREEL at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018

Pasadena, CA. UNREEL, written and performed by theatre clown, actor, and podcast host DENZIL MEYERS opens June 3rd at Studio C Artists – 6448 Santa Monica Blvd, LA, CA 90038. Five shows.

A riff on Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, UNREEL recreates a foolish young man’s uncertain journey to his dark side, on the night before his college entrance exams. Almost 40 years later, he’s finally beginning to understand what happened that night in 1980. Or is he? A comedic and poignant personal journey, demonstrating the confusing truth of philosopher Soren Kierkegaard’s maxim: “Life must lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards.”

In UNREEL, Meyers plays three characters — all parts of himself — to map his quest for personal meaning and philosophical certainty. The arrogant NARRATOR, the insecure WRITER, and the angsty 17-year old DENNY are all true … yet contradictory, and illumine our life-long struggle to understand our place in our world.

The characters in UNREEL pull from a wide variety of high and low sources: the Bible, John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, hallucinogenic drugs, Kierkegaard, Nietzche, Parsifal and the Quest for the Holy Grail, musical pioneers Devo, the history of clowns and the ancient Trickster archetype, Rene Descartes, Annie Hall, Hamlet, Mel Brooks, and post-modern dance. But do they know where they are going? Should they? Can they?

TICKETS: $15.00 – http://hff18.org/5122 – Age appropriate 16+

ABOUT THE WRITER • Denzil Meyers hosts the Comedy Death Star podcast, and is an actor and theatre clown. For the San Francisco stage, he wrote and directed “Fun: The Concept”, a stage adaptation of Bill Griffith’s long-running underground comic, Zippy the Pinhead, and directed several other plays, musicals, and one-person shows.

To fund this lavish lifestyle, Denzil consults on marketing strategy and consumer research. He’s also is a founder of the Applied Improvisation Network, an international community using improvisation in business, education, and for social change.

He’s been to Burning Man 17 times since 1992, but isn’t really into the drugs or rave music. The moon however, is phenomenal. ###