“WHAT’S A NICE GIRL LIKE YOU NOT DRINKING IN A PLACE LIKE THIS?”

Drunk With Hope In Chicago

For Immediate Release Tara Handron – What’s A Girl To Do Productions [email protected], 773-677-5208 www.tarahandron.com

Drunk with Hope in Chicago to Participate in the Hollywood Fringe Festival

“What’s a nice girl like you NOT drinking in a place like this?”

Thesis Project Becomes a Sobering Journey of Hope and Change:
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Hope is here! And she’s not alone. Handron, the playwright and sole actor in her 60-minute play, discards clichéd representations of recovery and alcoholism and relies on complex characters and richly layered stories to expose the raw emotions so many alcoholic women experience. Handron’s back-to-back portrayals of over 15 female alcoholics (some sober, some not) of all ages, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds come out of Handron’s own research on the subject, in face-to-face and computer mediated recovery meetings, as part of her thesis requirement in the Communication, Culture & Technology master’s degree program at Georgetown University.

Trained at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Second City in Chicago with many theatrical roles to her name, Handron brings talent and education to the stage as well as humor, poignancy, and a fresh voice to the once taboo subject of the female alcoholic.
Handron has performed Drunk with Hope in Chicago (formerly What’s A Girl To Do When It’s Time To Put Down the Drink?) multiple times in New York City, the Washington, DC metro area, and in Chicago.

DCTheatreScene.com’s David Winkler said, “As a performer, Handron is dynamic and damn near fearless, embodying over the course of the hour a panoply of characters, as well as abstract concepts from the alcoholic’s psychological landscape.” The Washington Post raved “any theatergoer can appreciate Handron and Brienza’s skill at packing humor and theatricality into sociological observations.”

Drunk with Hope in Chicago
Written and Performed by Tara Handron, Directed by Laura Brienza
Theatre of NOTE
1517 N Cahuenga Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Performance Date and Time
Thursday, June 21, 7:00PM
Friday, June 22, 6:30PM
Saturday, June 23, 8:00PM

Purchasing Tickets – The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of the emerging arts. Tickets for this show are $18 and be purchased at http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/681.