Seven Premieres at Hollywood Fringe Festival; An Actor’s Archetypal Dilemma
May 27, 2019
People who hire actors want to know instantly who they are and how the audience will react to them. Actors who satisfy that curiosity by projecting one archetype have an advantage in the crowded market. Seven archetypes? It’s complicated.
In Seven, Kate Robertson dives deep into the seven archetypes that make up her identity. The one-act play is a conversation between her archetypes about our internal and external worlds. Seven will premier Sunday, June 9 at 7 p.m. for the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Performances will be at the Underground Annex, 1308 N. Wilton Place, Los Angeles, CA.
The idea for Seven began in Robertson’s acting classes with the study of archetypes. Carl Jung believed them to be the mythic characters of the collective unconscious. Archetypes are found in every storytelling culture on Earth and their appeal is universal. We relate to them instantly, whether we know it or not. This is why the subject of archetypes is such a popular one in Hollywood, the consum
