UNREEL — 3 Characters Explore Who They Think They Are
May 18, 2018FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — May 19, 2018
Host of the Comedy Death Star podcast, Denzil Meyers, Premieres
UNREEL at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018
Pasadena, CA. UNREEL, written and performed by theatre clown, actor, and podcast host DENZIL MEYERS opens June 3rd at Studio C Artists – 6448 Santa Monica Blvd, LA, CA 90038. Five shows.
A riff on Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, UNREEL recreates a foolish young man’s uncertain journey to his dark side, on the night before his college entrance exams. Almost 40 years later, he’s finally beginning to understand what happened that night in 1980. Or is he? A comedic and poignant personal journey, demonstrating the confusing truth of philosopher Soren Kierkegaard’s maxim: “Life must lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards.”
In UNREEL, Meyers plays three characters — all parts of himself — to map his quest for personal meaning and philosophical certainty. The arrogant NARRATOR, the insecure WRITER, and the angsty 17-yea
...Faint Praise for “UnReel" ...
April 09, 2018“A manifesto, wrapped in a polemic, wrapped in a crisis.”
— The Saturday Evening Pest
“A genuine Tour de Farce!”
— Didacus of Victoria, Society of the Holy Name
“Quirky, redundant, and chaotic.”
— The Pasadena Penny Pincher
“The parts I understood I didn’t like. The parts I liked, I didn’t see.”
— Actual Person
“A post-primal bunch of didactic bullshit, orchestrated to yank at the most subversive elements of human society. I loved it!”
— Bitter Gnomes & Gorgons
“First he cries, then he laughs, then he kisses the chicken’s ass.”
— Paul Cavaliere, carpenter and 2nd baseman
“Gives the Dark Side a bad rap”
— Ella, Darth Vader’s sister
“You see? This is just the kind of shit I was talking about! My therapist has accused me of exaggerating, but I’m going to literally pay her to see this show!”
— MK, Denzil’s Ex-wife #3
“If no one leaves the theatre either angry or confused, we haven’t done our job.”
— Denzil Meyers, Writer
