LOSANGELES – For Fringe veteran Lindsay Beamish, the ideas for her next project always come from a place of no ideas. She simply finds a rehearsal room and starts to experiment. Earlier this year, as she and her collaborator Vanessa Peters walked into a room on the Emerson Los Angeles campus, they noticed a cryptic sign with the initials “DL” in the middle. From just that sign came improvised corporate sales pitches, contemplation of parenting, fertility and need and the memory of a powerful haiku that defines Beamish at her core.
Through that theatrical devising work came The Institute for The Opposite of Longing, making its world premiere this June at The Actor’s Company as part of the Hollywood Fringe.
The promotional summary for this experimental show reads as follows: Please enter the Opposite of Longing Chamber and state your primary symptom of longing. And where do you feel it in your body? And how much do you feel it on a scale of 1 to 10? And are you running out of tim...