Wishful Drinking: Carrie Fisher's One-Woman Show at Berkeley Rep
Berkeley Repertory Theatre (2025 Addison Street Berkeley, CA 94704)
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- $33.00 - $49.00
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- FREE - $24.50*
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All offers for Wishful Drinking have expired.
The last date listed for Wishful Drinking was Thursday March 20, 2008 / 2:00pm.
68 Goldstar Member Reviews
Les Tift
What an amazing, intelligent and funny show. Carrie Fisher is fantastic. I laughed until I cried. A perfect show.Written on Feb 18 2008
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Kathleen Korpell
Funny, yes, painful, yes, difficult to watch, at times yes.Written on Feb 20 2008
I do recommend this show to those who have "been there" and can handle hearing it again!
Carrie FIsher is a witty, humorous and troubled woman.
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Goldstar Member
Seats were fine. Lesher Theatre is a lovely venue. No bad seats, some just better. Show was hilarious. Goldstar has amazing offers. I always check Goldstar whenever there's a show I want to see. Many of my friends have signed up upon my urging. Thanks, Goldstar.Written on Dec 17 2008
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F. E.
She is fabulous!!!! Witty, great delivery and just a plain delight. I highly reccommend this show.Written on Mar 07 2008
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More Information About Wishful Drinking
Website
http://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/0708/2121.asp
Quotes & Highlights
- Watch a trailer for the show.
- “...a Hollywood survivor and, as ever, a witty chronicler of its many pitfalls." --New York Times
- The Los Angeles Times calls Wishful Drinking a "Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes.”
- “a drolly hysterical collection of unrelated short-short-short stories..." --Entertainment Weekly
- “hilarious…the jokes cascade…a gold mine of very funny material..." --Variety
Description
Written and performed by carrie fisher
Directed by tony taccone
In association with jonathan reinis productions
The Roda Theatre
Carrie Fisher is the life of the party on Berkeley Rep’s 40th birthday with Wishful Drinking, an uproarious and sobering look at her Hollywood hangover. Fisher tells a true and intoxicating story with the strong, wry wit that she poured into bestsellers like Postcards from the Edge. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in the original Star Wars when only 19 years old. Alas, aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother, Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction, weathering the wild ride of manic depression and lounging around various mental institutions. It’s an incredible tale—from having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother, to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon, from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man, to ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed. Entertainment Weekly declares Drinking “drolly hysterical,” and the Los Angeles Times dubs it a “Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes.” Don’t miss this outrageous chance to get Carried away.
The daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher became a cultural icon when she starred as Princess Leia in the first Star Wars trilogy. Her star-studded career includes roles in countless films such as Austin Powers, The Blues Brothers, Hannah and her Sisters, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, The Man with One Red Shoe, Romancing the Bride, Shampoo, When Harry Met Sally and Wonderland. Fisher’s first novel, Postcards from the Edge, leapt onto the New York Times’ bestseller list—and she turned it into a screenplay for a hit film starring Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep. Fisher followed this with three more bestsellers: The Best Awful, Delusions of Grandma and Surrender the Pink. Her television credits range all the way from Laverne and Shirley to Jack and Bobby. Fisher hosted her own show on the Oxygen network, Conversations from the Edge, and is currently a celebrity judge for Steven Spielberg’s On the Lot. Her experiences with addiction and mental illness—and her willingness to speak honestly about them—have made her a sought after speaker and respected advocate for this community.
After his Broadway success with a completely different one-woman show—Sarah Jones’ Bridge & Tunnel—Tony Taccone directs another wild ride. Last year, he took two shows from Berkeley Rep to New York City: Brundibar sold out its run and was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards while Bridge & Tunnel extended its Broadway stay for five months and won a Tony Award. Taccone’s other recent hits here at home include Continental Divide, Culture Clash’s Zorro in Hell and Honour.
About the Ticket Supplier: Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Known for its amazing and adventurous audience, the nonprofit has provided a home for emerging and established artists since 1968. With two stages and a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, Berkeley Rep premieres exhilarating new plays and reimagined classics. In the last five years alone, the company has helped send five shows to Broadway: Green Day's American Idiot, Bridge & Tunnel, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), Passing Strange and Wishful Drinking. Come see tomorrow's plays today at Berkeley Rep.
Berkeley Rep operates two performance spaces: the Roda Theatre, a state-of-the-art 600-seat proscenium theatre, and the intimate, 400-seat Thrust Stage. The Theatre is located in the heart of downtown Berkeley's arts district, just a half block from the Berkeley BART station, near lots of restaurants, cafe, pubs, and cool retailers.