eggshell

I sat down to write Eggshell after moving to a small city in Iowa, where I knew no one. After working at a hotel from 4 am to noon, I went to my little apartment and slept until about 8 pm. It was too cold to go outside, so I started writing. I needed to keep my head off my crappy schedule — and the idea that I was spending all that time alone. I sat down with one all-encompassing goal — to let a single simple idea inspire an astounding amount of creativity, not to try to write a creative idea.

With one thing in mind, a giant eggshell center stage, I spent countless nights writing out plays with that idea. I started more than a dozen times from the beginning with only that one thought, a giant eggshell. I would abandon all the characters and hints of story and try to re-focus on what it was that I was feeling, not saying.

After an insane schedule, on an odd segmented sleep pattern, in one of Iowa’s coldest winters, and through grueling nights of trying not to lie to mys...

WHAT: EGGSHELL from Director/Writer Søren Olsen

In a world in need of mending, 3 friends, only able to speak in gibberish, struggle with their lives of service to a giant semi-robotic egg. The world premiere of EGGSHELL asks the question: what happens when the one thing that we share begins to crack apart?

WHERE: Artworks Theatre, 6569 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038.

WHEN: June 8th at 10pm / June 11th at 10pm / June 14th at 10pm / June 16th at 10pm / June 18th at 10pm / June 21st at 10pm / June 23rd at 10pm

Running time about 50 minutes.

TICKETS: $10 at http://hollywoodfringe.org/projects/921

NOTE: Parking will be very challenging at the Artworks Complex because of the numerous shows that are part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Gold, Frank...