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Monday, October 20, 2008
G&G Hang with 'Desperate Writers'
The Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica is running a new screwball-comedy play about a pair of screenwriters who resort to desperate measures to get a meeting. All in good fun, but please don't try this at home. Read our review here.
Okay, and here's the sexual political angle: The writer pair in the story think they need to sell their "baby" script before they can afford to get pregnant for real. They pester a producer pair, a power couple who are now estranged but still sniping at each other. In reality, the producer pair is the writer pair that wrote the play (cringing in the photo).
(Photo by Michael Lamont)
Labels:
farce,
Santa Monica Edgemar,
screwball comedy,
theater review
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