BLOOD, A Voodoo Love Story

BLOOD, A VOODOO LOVE STORY: PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Hollywood, June 6, 2015

MPE Productions and Upward Bound Productions present…
BLOOD, A Voodoo Love Story
Written and directed by Michael Phillip Edwards

“TOP TEN PLAYS LA” – STAGE RAW

“The actors are inches from the audience. It simply works. Each drop of sweat and every articulated speech blasts the audience with the true ‘blood’ of theatre.. innovative work: Art. Strong acting.” – ON STAGE LOS ANGELES

An exceptional cast will open a limited engagement of BLOOD, A Voodoo Love Story at Theatre Asylum for the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Two tourists fall desperately in love at a Jamaican Hedonism resort and in haste hire a Voodoo priestess to marry them. 7 years later when their bedroom relationship sours, they discover that the priestess has attached a succubus named BLOOD to their union- she “must be fed” or they will die.

Starring Phrederic Semaj and Maria Tomas

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BLOOD by Michael Phillip Edwards

Take the legends of a storyteller from a childhood in Jamaica, expand through a lifetime of literature and art; create a fantasy with sprinkles of Samuel Beckett and Michael McClure; fold in the gut wrenching work of Growtowski. Boil it all down to two intense actors embodying a dozen characters and stuff it into an intense sixty minutes. There you have Playwright Michael Phillip Edwards’ pithy one act: BLOOD.

Directing his own play, Edwards has cast two terrific actors. Phrederic Semaj as He and Maria Tomas as She bring his words to life. Edwards mentions in his program notes that having grown up in Jamaica he often encountered “Parson,” an old storyteller, who always had a tale to tell. No Grimm’s fairy tales, these, but Stephen King on steroids stories that would scare the pants off the young artist and his friends. At rise we discover “He” and “She” (Semaj and Tomas) seated facing full front with looks of quiet consternation on their fac

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