SPLIT/SCREEN

ensemble theatre · one trick dog* · Ages 18+ · United States of America

world premiere

LAIST Listing!

June 18, 2015

LAist.com writes:

http://laist.com/2015/06/11/fringe_fest_2015_previews.php

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SPLIT/SCREEN

An accident while traveling in the Himalayas has just left Kit (Alex Montaldo), a young man with an extremely wealthy father, paralyzed at the beginning of Monique Witt’s drama “Split/Screen.” Now confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, Kit is desperate to reorient his identity away from what he sees as his family legacy, but it’s not easy: “The problem with structural lies…is that they’re part of us.You can’t leave them behind without leaving yourself behind.”

Kit wants to spend all his money to help his fellow hospital patient Rufus (Adam Rashad Glenn) recover from the debilitating asthma that is likely to end his life, but their doctor (Fran Montano), whose own family is also in the throes of tragedy, tells Kit the system doesn’t work that way. A psychotherapist (Chris Karmiol), furthermore, disco

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Press Release May 4, 2015

May 04, 2015

OneTrickDog* presents

split/screen

A Play by Monqiue Witt

in the Hollywood Fringe Festival

Ten Performances at The Actors Company

in West Hollywood

June 5th – June 21

www.hollywoodfringe.org ;

www.splitscreentheplay.com

New York, NY – (May 4, 2015) OneTrickDog* is pleased to announce the West Coast premier of Monique Witt’s split/screen at the Hollywood Fringe Festival on June 5th, 2015. split/screen explores the spirtual and psychological transformation of a wealthy and jaded young man, Kit, who suffers a freak accident that crushes his spine, after a successful summit of Everest. Transferred to an ER in El Barrio, he is befriended by a charismatic street hustler freestyling his way through life on the margin and an ER doctor whose son is critically ill. Their profound humanity helps Kit to come to terms with his radically changed life and to explore his emerging sense of purpose.

split/screen will be directed by Wendy Thum and run fo

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