AFTER RAVE REVIEWS, EVOLUTION OF A KISS IS SELECTED FOR BEST OF FRINGE AND RETURNS FOR ONE PASSIONATE ENCORE PERFORMANCE JULY 30TH!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 19TH, 2011

EVOLUTION OF A KISS: 4 FIRST KISSES, 3 GENERATIONS, 2 COUNTRIES, 1 PERFORMER!

This triumphant solo comedy chronicles three generations of Latinas as they experience their first kiss.

What would you do if, after years of keeping your own journal, you discovered the journals of your mother and grandmother as teenage girls? You’d compare everyone’s first kiss of course! In this hysterical and painstakingly honest comedy, we get to join three young women as they navigate the choppy waters of passion, desire, and teenage dorkiness from 1930s Mexico to modern day San Diego. Cynthia Brinkman brings these girls -and the hilarious characters that fill their worlds – to life in vivid color as we see a first kiss evolve through time and across cultural and sexual borders. Based on the first-hand accounts found in journals and oral recordings, it just goes to show that nothing is funnier than the honest truth.

Directed by Brian Mulligan
Written and performed by Cynthia Brinkman
Saturday, July 30th @ 8pm
Theatre Asylum @ The Lab
http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/438
Tx: $15.00

REVIEWERS RAVE!

“Cynthia captured my heart and held it through the entire show. And her comedic timing … let’s just say that I thought I was watching a Mexican Kristen Wiig performing.”
–Glen Jimenez, Hollywood Fringe Reviewer

“Cynthia Brinkman’s one-woman show, Evolution of a Kiss, is sizzling!…by the show’s end, the audience wants more…as the show’s rip-roaring humor and crafty storytelling is brilliantly propelled by the versatile performance of its leading lady.”
– Danny Rangel, LA Theatre Review

“I find it impossible not to fall in love with her. Her delivery conveys all the earnest honesty of young love. This will be the best show I see all night.”
– David Timberline, Style Weekly Magazine

“Brinkman’s expressions are priceless. Her comedy is most organic and never forced…There is a genuineness about Brinkman – an openness and goodness – that shines through in her performance.”
– Tony Frankel, LA Stage and Cinema

“I cannot say enough of her performance. Brinkman didn’t just change voices or intentions or how she was dressed, she seemed to change her soul for each character. Something new and different and vibrant appeared behind her eyes for everyone in the script. EVOLUTION OF A KISS is a great time with a great performer. Keep your eye on Cynthia Brinkman.”
– Cindy Marie Jenkins, Hollywood Fringe Reviewer

“A Total MUST SEE! Very few times will an artist be able to pull off superb writing AND acting, but Cynthia does it. Her writing is solid and clever and her comedic timing unmatched by anything I have seen in the last three years. I liked it so much I sent my mother who is now a fan of hers. Cynthia has a wonderful future in entertainment biz.”
- Dulce Maria Solis, Hollywood Fringe Reviewer