By Ernest Kearney — I’m not going to make the pretense of understanding what Writer-Performer Casey Alcoser was going for in this short, odd, and thoroughly quirky Dadaesque sketch about the American fantasy/horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937.)
Alcoser gives us a brief history of Lovecraft’s chilling monstrosities created for his Cthulhu Mythos, a glimpse into the writer’s raging prejudices (essentially, he hated anyone who wasn’t a white Anglo-Saxon massively winged multiple-eyed polyp-like male octopus of iridescent slime,) and just the slightest possible hint into a back story of the performer who, while performing before us, is constantly having his re-play button hit.
Again, not a clue as to what was going on, but the sense was felt that like any “clew” somewhere at the end there would be a minotaur lurking within that Labyrinth.
For his clever, confusing, and intriguing work a Gold Medal to Alcoser.
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Coffee, Tea, And Gin playing during the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2023
at the
Zephyr Theatre (Zephyr Theatre)Hollywood.
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