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It’s hard to find a good play in Los Angeles, they are few and far between, but every now a then a gem pops up and one suddenly realises this is something we need a lot more of.
Me, As a Penguin by British playwright Tom Wells is one of those plays, giving its cast of talented actors a chance to shine, and shine they do!
The story of Stitch, played with tenderness by the fabulously talented Brendan Hunt is a bashful young man-child from a tiny English seaside town in East Yorkshire.
Stitch leaves behind the comforts of his job in a knitting shop in the hope of finding a companion amid the gay scene and the bright city lights of Hull, to shelter with his heavily pregnant sister Liz played by Mina Badie. But, while staying with Liz and her partner Mark played by the fabulously talented Craig Young (pictured bottom right), Stitch’s travels don’t go quite as planned when Mark, introduces Stitch to Mad Dave, a bizarre menace of a man played by Johnny Giacalone in a giant penguin suit.
Dave works at the aquarium and takes a lot of LSD, and as Stitch, Mark and Liz wade into uncharted waters, one lonely penguin’s fate hangs in the balance, leaving Stitch caught up in a rather sticky situation with ‘harsh’ Dave, a zookeeper an overdose of kelp… I’ll say no more…
Big thumbs for this for this one, 5 stars indeed… You must see it!
Me, As a Penguin is playing at the Lost Studio, 130 S. La Brea Ave and L.A. runs till Mar. 6. Fri.–Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 4 p.m. (323) 960-7721.
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