needtheater Presents
“The Event”
By John Clancy
Directed by Ian Forester
Starring Paul Dillon
Don’t miss this international fringe hit!
Winner- Fringe First Award, 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
“It deliberately and cruelly destroys illusion…and challenges us to rise from our safe seats in the comforting dark and protest.” -The Guardian
“The Event” is a one-man tour-de-force in which a single actor narrates his and the audience’s experience of what is happening during the performance, asking “What is illusion? What is real?” Forester once again brings John Clancy’s unique theatrical voice to Los Angeles. Their last collaboration, needtheater’s 2008 production of “Fatboy,” won three LA Weekly Theatre Awards.
Critics rave about this production!
“Ian Forester directs Dillon in a pitch-perfect interpretation…
Dillon imbues his brittle and wryly funny interpretation with deeply felt understanding…
Playwright Clancy simply uses every conceivable aspect of the theater as an allegory for all the world being a stage. That he does it so simply turns his one-act into something like one of those luminous shafts of light that shoot up into the night from a truck outside some celebrity event or advertising event."
-LA Weekly
Tickets- $10
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