Mouthy Bitch

Reviews from the world premiere run at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival:

Critic’s Pick!

In this one-woman play by Dennis Bush we meet Kate Carden, a self-styled expert on male/female relationships. Kate is as confident as she is profane, pronouncing truisms about sexual dynamics as illustrated by one outrageous personal anecdote after another. Yet by the end of the play, we realize that, to her at least, there is more rationalization than truth in her philosophy.

It starts innocently enough. Kate recounts graphic moments from her relationships, most of them funny and some wildly so. There’s a lot of talk about women needing to accept their sexual equality with men. She casually undresses to her bra to underscore that she is in control of how people will look at her body and along the way, she’s so comfortable that it makes perfect sense.

But there is a flip side.

Things go wrong, almost always unexpectedly. The power point projector in the theater doesn’t work and she has t

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A TED talk goes horribly wrong.

Dennis Bush’s provocative play Mouthy Bitch will have its West Coast premiere as part of the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Performances will be held Wednesday, June 22 at 7:00 pm, Thursday, June 23 at 10:00 pm, Saturday, June 25 at 9:30 pm, and Sunday, June 26 at 3:00 pm. All performances will be at the Ruby Theatre in the Complex on Hollywood’s Theatre Row, 6476 Santa Monica Blvd.

Kate Carden knows that, sometimes, keeping your boyfriend in a dog crate is a perfectly logical thing to do. In an unfiltered, no-holds-barred seminar, the self-described interpersonal guru takes her audience on a hilarious and heartbreaking exploration of relationships and reality, seasoned with adult language and candid sexual references. It’s everything you wanted to know about relationships but didn’t have the balls to ask. But, just when Kate is on the verge of complete clarity, an unexpected discovery changes everything.

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