By Ernest Kearney — The School of Night and its Artistic Director, Christopher Johnson can always be counted on to present an audience with a work that is wonderfully wild and totally rooted in solid theatrics.
In the past two Fringes, that was demonstrated in their Punch and Judy and The Faggot King or The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward II, and it is, definitely, on display in this year’s Hercules Insane by Lucias Annaeus Seneca.
Done in high Roman style, the play relates the suffering of Hercules (Jason Britt) at the hands of the ever-jealous Juno (Dawn Alden).
Johnson and Producing Partner Jen Albert, who is also the fight choreographer, fill the stage with violence, slaughter, monsters and a profusion of phallic members; leaving the stage piled with bodies and coated in blood.
Is it for everyone?
Probably not.
But one thing you can be sure of when approaching a School of Night production: you’ll never be bored. One of the added treats to this staging is director Johnson’s preshow spiel in
which he lays out the early history of theatre and Seneca’s contributions to it. That was worth the price of admission in and of itself.
For pure artistry and outrageous originality: a PLATINUM MEDAL.
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Hercules Insane
is Playing During The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018
at
The Complex Hollywood
6476 Santa Monica Blvd
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