Comedy Death Star: Episode 76 @Lucy Gillespie "Keeping Up With The Prozorovs"
June 05, 2018Listen to Comedy Death Star Podcast with Denzil Myers: Episode 76 with writer/producer Lucy Gillespie on “KEEPING UP WITH THE PROZOROVS”
https://acsdigital.tv/podcast/ep-76-lucygillespie-keeping-prozorovs-hff18/
...ARTSBEATLA.COM: Voices from the 2018 Hollywood Fringe: Lucy Gillespie, Writer of ‘Keeping Up with the Prozorovs’
June 05, 2018“Voices from the 2018 Hollywood Fringe: Lucy Gillespie, Writer of ‘Keeping Up with the Prozorovs’”
by Kurt Gardner
artsbeatla.com
Making its world premiere at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Fest is playwright Lucy Gillespie’s comedy Keeping Up With the Prozorovs — a mashup of Chekhov’s Three Sisters and the Kardashians’ reality show. She took the time to answer some questions about the piece for ArtsBeatLA:
Q. What inspired you to write this mash-up?
Last February, I broke my back in a snowboarding accident, was airlifted to hospital, then rushed into emergency spinal fusion surgery. The week after surgery was terrifying. I had no idea what my recovery would involve, or if I’d ever walk again. I was in constant pain, too scared to move in case I injured the surgery site. It was during this week I watched the Kardashians for the first time. I’d always been aware of them, of course, but with the distanced dismissal of a self-confessed snob.
But now, heavily dosed on a variety of
...World Premiere - KEEPING UP WITH THE PROZOROVS
May 01, 2018Chekhov’s Three Sisters make it to Moscow…and become the Kardashians
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May 1 2018, Hollywood, CA—A dark, outrageous mash-up of Chekhov’s tragi-comic classic Three Sisters, with the epic realness of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, written by Lucy Gillespie—creator of the cult series Unicornland.
Depressed by the bleakness of life in a Russian small town at the turn of the century, three bougie sisters pack up and move to Moscow. Back in the glittering city of their youth, Olga, Masha and Irina search for love, gaiety and purpose. But is Moscow enough to make their dreams come true? Find out in this glamorous peek into their exploits and privileged private lives. Every day is a chaotic mix of fame, business, lip filler and vodka!
KEEPING UP WITH THE PROZOROVS is a hilarious examination of millennial existential despair. From haters to hustle to heartbreak, this coming-of-a
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