ONE FRAGILISTIC NIGHT ONLY! DO YOU KNOW VERY MUCH ABOUT MARY? MARY POPPINS IS A BUTTERFLY...THE MYSTERIES OF HER UNIVERSE, CONNECTED AT LAST...
Mary Poppins is a BUTTERFLY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
6/7/10
Strange Vista, Pod 36 and Entertainment MAX present…
Mary Poppins is a BUTTERFLY
A world premier of a solo work for the Hollywood Fringe Festival
Directed by Jeff G. Peters
Written and Performed by Suzan Averitt
Do you know very much about Mary?
Scratching, itching, twirling, praying, flapping, bleeding, and even donuts help a young girl and a Monarch named Mary understand…
P.L. Travers talks about a form of creation she calls “linking”, which allows one to explain all the mysteries of this universe by simply making up your own stories about them and linking them to the world as you know it.
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay…
The Mysteries of Her Universe connected at last.
From Steve Julian’s Theatre Blog (stevejulian.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/mary-poppins-is-a-butterfly/): Most of the shows (in the Hollywood Fringe Festival) have more than one performance. Not the case with Mary Poppins is a BUTTERFLY: One show and one show only. Writer and performer Suzan Averitt says, "It’s been extremely difficult to characterize this piece for the public blurbs. It began as a fifteen minute spoken word essay in a Paula Killen workshop some years back. It did not fit in at all with the other comedic pieces, all of them very accessible and well done–still, it always spoke to me and I wanted to put something in the first Hollywood Fringe Festival.
“I was going to direct a one act, but I thought the rehearsal space and insurance were beyond me, financially. It is always a challenge to put up your own show, without the mixed blessing of a theatre group to help you do it–Also, I really wanted to act in something, so I decided to develop Mary Poppins is a BUTTERFLY into a longer piece (it runs about an hour), with some video (some original, some taken from the web) and slides (also some of my own, and some found online). I participated in Slideshow at The Fake a couple of years ago, and I liked presenting my work so much better with odd visuals to help break up the story and sometimes jog it into another, perhaps unexplored corner…
“MPisaB can be called a comedy about a serious subject matter. Some of the events it is based on are taken from my own life. The piece examines a young girl’s first brush with spirituality and sexuality, and how she connects the events in a way that makes sense for her.
“Even though we are only on the one night, we have a fully realized set, which currently is specific to Art|Works Theatre. I hope the concept will serve our show in future performances.”
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Tickets are also available through the HFF call center at 866-811-4111. Just provide the name and dates of the shows you’d like to see. And of course, come June 17, Fringe tickets will be on sale at the Fringe Central Box Office and at the door of the venues shortly before performances.
Door opens at 8pm.
Chewies and Drinks will be offered before the show.
Mary Poppins is a BUTTERFLY is a one-night only event and we anticipate selling out.
Please buy your tickets early to ensure your seat.
Plenty of Street parking!
We hope to see you there!
SUZAN AVERITT was one of eight Los Angeles performance artists
chosen for use of an NEA Grant through Otis Parsons and MOCA for her
interpretation of religious street literature. She is a member of Directors Lab West and created and directed a series of plays for legendary Los Angeles landmark, Al’s Bar, including, GO, adapted from the infamous Beat novel by John Clellon Holmes, and Anais Nin’s EROTICA. More recently she developed and directed RBITRARY, a collaboration of dance/text monologues and dialogues performed in reverse round(audience seated in the center.) She originated ACTING FOR ANIMATION (a course for animation artists), which she has taught in all the major animation studios in LA.
Also an actress, Suzan’s training includes The Lee Strasberg Theatre
Institute, Improvisation with Stephen Book, and many years with Anne
Bogart’s SITI Company, as well as Butoh and traditional dance. She has
performed leading roles in dance theatre (in New York and San Francisco), performance art, contemporary plays and on television, in addition to solo acts. Her film work includes recent museum installations by Paul McCarthy(Munich, London) and Mike Kelley (New York, Los Angeles).
She is currently working on new spoken word/performance mixtures, and a novella, as well as continuing to develop short plays and performance art works for others. She also acts as managing editor and partner and MPisB director with Jeff G. Peters for the satirical blog: CelebrityPornNames.com
which features exclusive art, essays and video aimed toward opening the eyes of the mainstream public to the urban phenomenon that is your
‘Porn Name’.
JEFF G. PETERS has been involved in some form of the entertainment industry since the age of ten years old. He started playing nightclubs at sixteen and eventually earned a degree in Music Theory and Composition from the University of Texas at Arlington. Jeff then started working with recording studios as a Music Producer/Engineer of many album projects, film scores, commercials and corporate shows as well as several Six Flags theme park shows.
After making a living in music for twenty-five years, Jeff moved to Los Angeles in 2000, Since that move he has worked as an actor, voice-over artist, composer, writer and comedian. He has appeared on TV and in independent films and print ads. In 2004 he toured the Middle East performing his comedy for the troops. At the end of 2005 Jeff wrote and produced a television pilot that garnered the attention of some major studios and has allowed him to continue writing and submitting show ideas and scripts.
Currently Jeff is an Audio Producer for the national radio show “Marketplace” and has a production studio in the San Fernando Valley. Jeff can also be seen in a weekly web series as the devilishly snarky anchorman Patterson Collier for “Dog News” at HundredWattFilms.com. For less snark and more “real”, check out YeahButStill.org . And what would be the point of living in the beautiful San Fernando Valley without spoofing its major export: CelebrityPornNames.com!
Media Contact:
Suzan Averitt/323.868.3305/[email protected]
Jeff G. Peters/818.892.1351/[email protected]
