THE PORTABLE DOROTHY PARKER PREMIERES AT THE 2012 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE

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LOS ANGELES, California: Grove Goddess Productions is pleased to present the world premiere of The Portable Dorothy Parker, a one-woman play written by Annie Lux, directed by Lee Costello, and performed by Margot Avery.

The year is 1943, the place, New York City. Dorothy Parker—famed for her wit and her presence at the legendary Algonquin Round Table—is not happy. Viking Press is publishing a collection of Dorothy’s poems and short stories, and Dorothy must make the selections. An editor is about to show up at her door. Even worse, a young woman editor. They could have at least sent a man, preferably a good-looking one. But of course all the men worth their salt are off fighting the Germans or Japanese, Dottie’s husband Alan Campbell among them. His recent leave didn’t go very well. She probably shouldn’t have accused him of sodomizing the elevator boy; it did rather put a damper on their last evening together.

As Dorothy sorts through her works, she reminisces about her life: her famous friends (Lillian Hellman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and especially Ernest Hemingway), the wits of the Round Table (Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman), the founding of The New Yorker, and her many loves and heartbreaks. Has it all been worth it? Has she made her mark as a writer, or is she merely “clever”?

The Portable Dorothy Parker has been developed over the past few years by playwright Annie Lux, director Lee Costello, and actress Margot Avery, and has been workshopped at Ensemble Studio Theater’s Octoberfest and as a “Gracenote” with 3Graces Productions in New York. These performances at the Hollywood Fringe Festival will mark its world premiere as a finished play.

The Portable Dorothy Parker at the 2012 Hollywood Fringe Festival
ComedySportz LA, 733 Seward Street
Friday, June 15 at 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 16 at 9:00 p.m
Sunday, June 17 at 1:00 p.m.

Written by Annie Lux
Directed by Lee Costello
Performed by Margot Avery