GLENNIE & MAPLE BREAK UP - PRESS RELEASE
Glennie & Maple Break Up
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Paul Michels (310) 204-4883
Email: [email protected]
Sewer Socialist Productions PRESENT
The World Premiere of
Paul Hoan Zeidler’s
GLENNIE & MAPLE BREAK UP
STARRING Etienne Eckert and Charles Pacello
as part of
THE 2012 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL
at
THE LILLIAN and ASYLUM LAB THEATERS
June 10th – 24th
Tickets: $10. For tickets visit:
www.hollywoodfringe.org
Half price tickets (limited supply): plays411.com, lastagetix.com
(Los Angeles) — Sewer Socialist Productions is proud to present the world premiere of Paul Hoan Zeidler’s GLENNIE & MAPLE BREAK UP, the story of two people who keep splitting up, but can’t help finding their ways back to each other.
GLENNIE & MAPLE BREAK UP is directed by it’s author, Paul Hoan Zeidler and stars Etienne Eckert (Bobrauschenbergamerica, Seven Redneck Cheerleaders) as Glennie and Charles Pacello (Time’s Scream and Hurry, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings) as Maple.
About GLENNIE & MAPLE BREAK UP
Funny, sad, angry, affectionate and poignant, GLENNIE & MAPLE BREAK UP dramatizes the fight(s) two headstrong people must make (and, sometimes, have) just to stay together.
Glennie is recovering from an abusive relationship and fights episodes of deep depression. Maple loves to be supportive of her, mostly in ways that just piss Glennie off. She gets angry to cover up how miserable she feels. He plays his strength until it becomes a liability. They break up. They get back together when Maple helps Glennie out of a jam with another guy. They break up again. They get back together, but when Maple can’t help being supportive of another girl, they break up one more time. Will they hold on long enough to find out what they really have in each other? Or will their next break up be the last?
Five morning afters in the story of Glennie and Maple. Can two people have a relationship, even when they aren’t in one?
Sewer Socialist Productions
Sewer Socialist Productions was founded in the belief that a new play needs to do at least one of the following things: Tell a story no one in the audience has ever heard. Show them a scene they have never experienced. Dramatize characters or relationships they aren’t overly familiar with. Or explore conflicts and themes the audience has never or rarely considered. The company casts a wary eye on the conventional and seeks to find “the new.”
This is the fourth production mounted by the Sewer Socialists. Their previous plays include: TIME’S SCREAM AND HURRY, which had two Los Angeles productions before a successful run at the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival (www.timesscream.com). And ACTS OF POSSESSION, which ran in the 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival and is now in production as a short film.
Biographies
Paul Hoan Zeidler (writer, director) A Milwaukee native, Paul moved out to Los Angeles to attend graduate school at the University of Southern California where he studied with Hubert Selby, Jr. (Last Exit to Brooklyn), John Rechy (City of Night), Paul Zindel (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds), and Jerome Lawrence (Inherit the Wind) who taught him Eleventh Commandment: “Thou shalt not commit television on a theater stage.” It’s something he’s taken to heart ever since. Paul directed his play, TIME’S SCREAM AND HURRY, in two Los Angeles productions before taking it to the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival for a successful run at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Another full-length play, NUDENAKED, was honored in March, 2011 at the Stanley Drama Awards and was a 2009 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist. L.A. stagings of his work include: ACTS OF POSSESSION, Hollywood Fringe 2011. “The Enchanter Disappears” with the Jerome Lawrence Quintet, and “Your Mind Breathes Water” with the Elephant Theater Company. He’s currently working on two new plays: WOOF-WOOF and BOUNCE LIKE YOU WANT IT. Paul is the founder and Artistic Director of Sewer Socialist Productions.
Etienne Eckert (Glennie) has appeared on stage in world premiere productions of Love Sick, Tooth and Nail, One Fell Swoop, and Seven Redneck Cheerleaders. Other stage credits include Bobrauschenbergamerica at [Inside] the Ford, Kidnapped by Craigslist, and Hellcab, to name only a few. Recent film credits include the feature Stonerville, The Side Effects of Barry (in which she co-wrote, produced, and starred), The Stazzi Studio, and Aimee Semple McPherson. Enjoy Glennie and Maple breaking up … and getting back together … and….
Charles Pacello (Maple) Born in Denver, CO, a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Charlie studied at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles and attended the Midsummer in Oxford program, a summer-long Shakespeare intensive workshop at Oxford, England. Los Angeles theatre credits: Acts of Possession, Waiting for Godot (Pozzo); Time’s Scream and Hurry (L.A. and New York Fringe); One Fell Swoop; In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings; Hamlet; What the Butler Saw; Betrayal; The Bear. Film credits: Blind Man’s Curse; Prom Queen: The Homecoming; Separated; Child Invisible; Project America; Sam Has Seven Friends (Emmy nominated); Prom Queen (Emmy nominated). Charlie is the vice-president and CFO of Sewer Socialist Productions.
Production at a Glance
Sewer Socialist Productions present
GLENNIE & MAPLE BREAK UP
Written and directed by Paul Hoan Zeidler
Starring: Etienne Eckert and Charles Pacello
TICKETS $10, online at: www.hollywoodfringe.org
Half price tickets (limited supply):
play411.com, lastagetix.com
Where:
The Lillian Theater and the Asylum Lab
6322 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038
(enter both from Lillian Way)
Dates & Venues:
Lillian Theater
Sun., June 10 — 2 pm (Press preview)(pay what you can)
Asylum Lab Theater
Thurs., June 14 — 8:30 pm
Fri., June 15 — 8:30 pm
Lillian Theater
Sat., June 16 — 2 pm
Sun., June 17 — 2 pm
Asylum Lab Theater
Thurs., June 21 — 8:30 pm
Lillian Theater
Sat., June 23 — 2 pm
Sun., June 24 — 2 pm
presented as part of the 2012 Hollywood Fringe Festival
For more information on the show please see the GLENNIE & MAPLE BREAK UP Facebook page.
