By Ernest Kearney — Easy Targets: Artists and Heroes doesn’t quite reach the same heady heights as the Burglars of Hamm’s HHF17 offering, but it is still massively-inspired nonsense.
Eric Curtis Johnson as Abraham Lincoln in Easy Targets: Artists and Heroes (HHF17)
The show consists of a quartet of silly spoofs of solo shows. Selina Merrill, in All About Me by Jon Beauregard, portrays that actress we all dive under the table at any award ceremony to avoid talking to. Eric Curtis Johnson embodies our martyred 16th President in An Evening with Abraham Lincoln written by Matt Almos. Both are well written and performed, but they seem like soft balls being pitched with an under hand.
The same can’t be said of the following pair.
Word Magic, written by Selina Merrill, is a delightful dig at the typical style bellowed-out from the ubiquitous poetry slams which have popped up
Tracey Leigh performs “Easy Targets,” “Word Magic” (HHF#18)
nationwide. Performed by Tracy Leigh, with a stone-faced visage—that would have brought a tear of joy to the eye of Buster Keaton—Leigh treats us to the near verbal equivalent of Mister Toad’s Wild Ride.
She is followed by Jaime Robledo’s Space Man (or How I Found Myself in Low Earth Orbit) with a stellar performance by Hugo Armstrong who boldly takes us into a cosmos consisting of “billons and billons of snickers.”
Directed with gusto by Jaime Rebledo and produced with even more gusto by Scott Golden; thanks to a special arrangement with the Parole Board of the California Department of Corrections. (Please try not to stare at the device on his ankle. He’s very self-conscious about it.)
A big shiny GOLD MEDAL for all.
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(Selina Merrill from “All About Me” in Featured Image)
Easy Targets: Artists and Heroes
Is Playing During Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018
at
6322 Santa Monica Blvd.
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