Love, Locs & Liberation at the Hollywood Fringe Festival
April 25, 2018
FORIMMEDIATERELEASE
Performance-Activist-Poet-Educator
Press Contact: Ella Turenne
323.206.6411 or [email protected]
Announcing the HOLLYWOODFRINGEFESTIVALPREMIERE of
Love, Locs, & Liberation
Written and performed by Ella Turenne
Directed by Kathryn Ervin
Hollywood Fringe Festival Scholarship Recipient
Preview: Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 8:30pm
Additionally:
Thursday, June 7, 2018, 10:30 PM
Thursday, June 14, 2018, 9:00 PM
Friday, June 15, 2018, 5:30 PM
Thursday, June 21, 2018, 9:30 PM
At studio/stage in Hollywood at 520 N. Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Hollywood, CA – Blending poetry, song and humor, Ella Turenne unlocks the history of hair stories experienced by Black women, revealing mishaps and triumphs. Through the eyes of 21 different characters – ranging from a 5th grade bully to Madam CJ Walker – she exposes the hair connection to politics, identity and culture. In doing so she illustrates why hair is an intimate and essential part o