Story: The story focuses on Anita, a magazine editor who’s turning 40 and fed up with her job. “Illuminating, insightful, and thought-provoking.” “The most entertaining and fun show in Los Angeles this Fall.” “Surprisingly entertaining and too, too funny.” "Jubilant crowds are offered a bawdy, hilarious, thought-provoking, shocking, touching, and altogether exhilarating theater piece.” To the best of my knowledge no one had ever made a documentary and then turned it in to a stage play, so in a sense the whole thing was just a big experiment for me.” Ronnie Larsen After the movie came out I wanted to see if I could actually stage the movie and then turned it into a play. The movie was NOT a film adaptation of my play, Making Porn, it was an actual documentary. Story: “When Making Porn was playing in LA the first time, I met a bunch of porn stars so I decided to make a documentary about their lives and the process of shooting porn movies. In addition to his clever way with words, Larsen is a director with an eye for nuance, as well as choreographed episodes, and his jokes often find a second wave of laughter through their staging." "What distinguishes this production is the real-life familiarity of theĬharacters’ behavior, even as their circumstances approach burlesque. Sans intermission, well-paced tale has an arrow-like narrative trajectory that gradually becomes less comic and more tragic as it goes on.show should repeat its local success in upcoming remounts." ".all characters are granted more depth than one might anticipate at first, and dialogue is quite well honed to deftly reveal contradictory, potentially land-mined personality traits. The 90-minute romp had the audience at Friday's opening cheering at the end." "Torn from the headlines, but a lot more entertaining, "Sleeping With Straight Men" may turn out to be this summer's surprise hit play. The first step came with A Few Gay Men last year, and this new play reinforces the developing notion that Larsen is a writer and director to be reckoned with." "Sleeping With Straight Men, having its premiere in the Theatre Rhino Studio, is another successful step by Larsen to reach beyond the reputation of his Making Porn et al.
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