For information on the play, further productions or the available Desperate Writers film script,
please email Catherine Schreiber at info@desperatewriters.com
KPFK - Arts in Review with Julio Martinez
Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:02 pm
"This demented farce by Joshua Grenrock and Catherine Schreiber should be catnip for those who love Hollywood in-jokes. Ashley and David are lovers and writing partners; though they've been toiling for years, they've never sold a script. Ashley's convinced that producers never actually read their scripts, so she kidnaps three of them at gunpoint, and locks them in a wire cage in her living room. The actors are game and skillful, and director Kay Cole keeps the action spinning along on Francoise-Pierre Couture's set, cleverly designed as an architect's blueprint."
VIEW the Trailer playing at selected AMC & Laemmle Theatres!
CRITICS PICK!
~ Gerri Garner's Entertainment File
Kaleidascope Radio Magazine:KCLA, KLAS, KPRO-AM, KMAX--AM
Wednesday May 8, 2009
"I first saw "Desperate Writers", last October, and had an excellent time then. It is back at the Edgemar Center in Santa Monica, and a little more polished. It is just loads of fun. Desperate Writers is the tour de farce about a young couple, putting their lives on hold, not getting married etc. Ashley (Kate Hollinshead), is an excellent cook who runs an avant-guard catering service, but only wants to get her, and boyfriend David's (Brian Krause) movie script produced. Finally this very determined woman takes the lead, and captures three very snotty producers. If this doesn't happen, will she ever get married, and have the baby she is longing to have? David keeps putting off having a life, with his love until he gets his "ducks in a row" The duck, of course, is the sale of their collaboration on a romantic-comedy script about a con man who falls in love, with a twist of fate that involves a winning lottery ticket. Ashley decides to force the producers to take a meeting, by imprisoning them in a cage in their living room. It is a wild, hilarious ride, side splitting screwball comedy, tightly directed by Kay Cole. Writers Joshua Grenrock, and Catherine Schreiber, joined by Andrew Ross Wynn are the captive trio of the producers being held. Excellent ensemble work, fine performances. Desperate Writers is not to be missed, and our critic's pick."
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"A definite must see again and again" - Entertainment today
"If you want an enjoyable theatre experience filled with humor that will keep you laughing throughout,
you have to see Desperate Writers!!!" - Tolucan Times
"A must see... a screwball comedy in every sense of the word"- willcallonline
Starring Brian Krause
(Leo Wyatt from the hit series “Charmed”)
Vivian Bang*, Scott Damian*, Joshua Grenrock*, Kate Hollinshead*, Steven Grove Malloy*, Eden Malyn, Catherine Schreiber*, Jennifer Taub*, Andrew Ross Wynn*
*Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Runs Friday and Saturday at 8p.m., Sunday at 2 and 7 p.m.
Starring Brian Krause
(Leo Wyatt from the hit series “Charmed”)
Vivian Bang*, Scott Damian*, Joshua Grenrock*, Kate Hollinshead*, Steven Grove Malloy*, Eden Malyn, Catherine Schreiber*, Jennifer Taub*, Andrew Ross Wynn*
*Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Runs Friday and Saturday at 8p.m., Sunday at 2 and 7 p.m.
