“What’s a nice girl like you NOT drinking in a place like this?”
June 02, 2012
For Immediate Release Tara Handron – What’s A Girl To Do Productions [email protected], 773-677-5208 www.tarahandron.com
Drunk with Hope in Chicago to Participate in the Hollywood Fringe Festival
“What’s a nice girl like you NOT drinking in a place like this?”
Thesis Project Becomes a Sobering Journey of Hope and Change:
Former Georgetown Grad Student Takes One-woman Show to Los Angeles
Hope is here! And she’s not alone. Handron, the playwright and sole actor in her 60-minute play, discards clichéd representations of recovery and alcoholism and relies on complex characters and richly layered stories to expose the raw emotions so many alcoholic women experience. Handron’s back-to-back portrayals of over 15 female alcoholics (some sober, some not) of all ages, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds come out of Handron’s own research on the subject, in face-to-face and computer mediated recovery meetings, as part of her...
