Powerful Urban Rock Drama The Playground Combines Live Theatre & Street Dance
Unknown Theater (Hollywood, CA)
This rock-drama inspired by the true events of teenage runaways and street kids combines live theatre, rock music, urban vibes, video, and street style dance. Michael Justen adapted their stories from journal entries, interviews and documentaries. Members of the production team and cast spent time on the streets without food or money with actual street kids to gather true stories for the production. Fantasies, drugs and music provide a canvas for the characters, making the music saturated with dreams, fear, passion--and hope for a better future.
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<p>Michael Justen adapted the stories in The Playground from journal entries, interviews and documentaries. Members of the production team and cast spent time on the streets without food or money with actual street kids to gather true stories for the production. The Playground has joined forces with Los Angeles Youth Network in efforts to promote community involvement to end teenage homelessness. </p>
<p>In the darkest of places, the “street family” offers a sense of belonging, the bonds of friendship, love, and unity in the constant struggle for survival. Bravely written scenes and intimate monologues impart a strong backbone to the interconnecting story lines. </p>
<p>The Playground features original music and lyrics by Beth Hart, Sebastian Sage, and Michael Justen. </p>
<p>The cast of The Playground features: Luke Barnett, Joey Borgogna, Chris Devlin, Rebecca Edmonston, Jonathan Halyalkar, Renette Johnson, Michael Justen, Erica Katzin, Michelle Kaufer, Michael Montoya, Rachael Page, and Lisa Schwartz. </p>
Unknown Theater
Unknown Theater is the result of years of careful planning and limitless creative dreaming, a major grassroots fundraising campaign and a collective leap of faith.
Determined to avoid the common mistakes of so many new theater companies, the founding members of Unknown Theater committed to taking the time to lay a solid administrative groundwork that would provide a lasting launching pad for their unabashedly idealistic and ambitious dreams.
Unknown Theater is dedicated to making theater an integrated and necessary part of people's lives -- providing regular opportunities for the members of our diverse Los Angeles community to come together, appreciate one another, and search for meaning together.
