By Ernest Kearney — This Hollywood Fringe (HFF23) has not had a sweeter show, and the ingredients that went into making a success of Cross My Heart are few but well-selected.
First, there is the engaging and skilled Hannah Aslesen who connects with her audience the instant she steps before.
Second is the honest and sincere story of a relationship facing great difficulty, and here that relationship is between Hannah and her eleven-year-old self. Most of us have struggled to achieve harmony between our youthful expectations forged in the naivety of childhood and that reality constructed for us in the non-union sweatshop of adulthood.
Hannah’s task is somewhat more formidable in that she must explain to the eleven-year-old very devout and very judgmental Christian Hannah how it is she would end up at thirty the clearheaded, very secular, and very happily gay Hannah.
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And finally, to portray her eleven-year-old self we have a young puppet Hannah worked, wonderfully, by Puppeteer and Director Cole Wadsworth.
The results are a show surfeit of sweetness, sincerity, substance, and style with drollic delights to boot.
That’s a Gold Medal in my book…
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Cross My Heart
played during the
Hollywood Fringe Festival 2023
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For Hollywood Fringe Festival Details, Cross My Heart Show Information Click HERE.
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