By Ernest Kearney — Lady Penelope (Writer/Performer Penny Peyser) prances out on stage in her Elizabethan gown and red Kid sneakers. Apparently, during our long national quarantine, she was perfectly snug with her cat, composing sonnets while in blissful solitude.
Lady Penelope abhors modern free verse, lamenting “A poem without a rhyme is like a chip without a dip.” But iambic pentameter, which was her delight, becomes her bane as she must reemerge into the world sans poetry if she wants to reunite with her estranged son.
This aspect of the show seems like a late addition, only put in place in adherence to some Robert McKee tenet. Peyser is very entertaining in reciting her poetry and showing her proficiency on the ukulele. That would have been just fine.
For Peyser herself a Silver Medal.
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Sonnets From Suburbia playing during the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2023
at the
Asylum @ Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre (SFS Theatre mainstage) in Hollywood.
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