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Love Is a Battlefield

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’Round the Fringe
Hollywood Fringe Festival 2012
Mike Ciriaco
6/4/2012

For every transplant who relocates to Los Angeles to be an actor, there are nine more who move here to be stars. What’s the difference between the two? Actors endeavor to tell stories that elevate the human condition. Stars want to be famous. Actors hustle three different survival jobs and reinvest their meager earning into classes until they make their big break. Star wannabes chug vodka Redbulls until last call, sleep until noon and hope someone will magically cast them in a major motion picture. Needless to say, most star wannabes bail on their aspirations by their mid to late 20s, and start focusing on a more practical life plan, for instance, securing a stable sugar daddy.

Fortunately, true actors in SoCal can take solace in the return of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Back for its third year, this independent theater event, spanning June 14-24, serves as a safe haven for underground and emerging artists. With over 200 productions to choose from, the Hollywood Fringe can easily overwhelm a neophyte audience member. Frontiers has compiled a list of this year’s most promising LGBT-themed shows to simplify your search and support the real actors of Los Angeles.

Love Is A Battlefield
Fringe Central Mainstage, Open Fist Theatre Company, 6209 Santa Monica Blvd.

Written by and starring Barry Brisco, a veteran of both the Edinburgh Fringe and New York theater scenes, Love is A Battlefield combines dynamic characters with explosive themes, resulting in a Pulp Fiction-esque sensibility. Fans of the Hudson Theatre’s recent revival of Rent will be pleased to see several familiar faces in the cast. The well-balanced ensemble offers a plethora of talent, with notable performances by Cy Creamer and Anna Villafane proving their rising star power. LIAB aspires to answer, “What is Love? Is it something worth fighting for? Is it something worth dying for?”