Audience Decides the Plot in Forking! at Theatre Asylum
Theatre Asylum (6320 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90038)
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The last date listed for Forking! was Saturday March 14, 2009 / 8:00pm.
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14 Goldstar Member Reviews
Tracey
If you loved Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid, and are addicted to reality TV, you'll love FORKING! Go with a group of friends and enjoy!Written on Mar 11 2009
The pianist was excellent!!
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Christine Haddad
Not what I expected, but there were moments of laughter and good acting. Parking was hard to find.Written on Mar 03 2009
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Benjamin P.
silly, not much contents but does contain some laughs.Written on Feb 23 2009
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monkeyface
My roommate and I went to see this because as children we both loved the "Choose Your Own Adventure Books." We thought the concept would bring back the thrills of childhood but instead we were given a flashback into drunken college days. I don't really know what we were expecting but we were both disappointed. The audience was incredibly rowdy and the decision making process seemed a little tiring after a while but only because all the "forks" were incredibly similar with similar outcomes. Maybe if it was a different plot with different choices then we would have enjoyed it more, (as the actors did a good job with the material they were given). Both of us our in our 30's and were just kind of bored over the plot. The rest of the audience (which seemed to us to be the director or actors' fan club) seemed to greatly enjoy themselves but then they were younger and drinking the whole time with the performance. Maybe I've finally grown up....Written on Feb 22 2009
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Website
http://www.pianofight.com/Stage/Entries/2009/1/27_FORKING.html
Description
The original comedy Forking! – a fully scripted play in which the audience votes on how the plot will proceed – will make its Los Angeles premiere February 20 at the Theatre Asylum, following a month-long run at San Francisco’s Off-Market Theater, where it’s been playing to standing-room only audiences. The play is produced by SF-based PianoFight and executive produced by SF/LA-based C.A.F.E.
This full-length play came about after SF native Daniel Heath’s short play Twice as Bright was awarded the top prize in Pianofight/C.A.F.E.’s “ShortLived,” a three-month competition of 22 short plays by SF writers (that SF Weekly deemed “Better than SNL”), the winner chosen by the audiences. Heath’s prize? The opportunity to write a full-length piece on anything of his choosing, to be produced by PianoFight. Heath delivered a whopper with twists, turns, and multiple endings.
This time around, the audience again actively participates by voting. Six 20-to-30-somethings who live together in Los Angeles are thrust into or out of the sack with other characters, depending on how the audience votes. Each potential "fork" is scripted, and the sum of each audience vote will determine the outcome of the play. The SF Bay Guardian wrote “Playing out like a cross between American Idol and The Real World, this is theater by and for the reality-show generation."
The story centers around Chastity, a wedding photographer with a bad knee and no health care, and Joshua, a Canadian who will lose his job if he can't get his visa renewed. After a night of heavy drinking, the two decide that the best way to solve both their problems is to get married – giving Chastity health coverage and Joshua American citizenship. One problem: Will the audience get them to their joyous day?
The LA version will feature both LA and SF performers, including LA’s Liz Osborn, Ashley Lambert, Teresa Reilly and Max Scher, and SF’s Christy Crowley, Stefanie Goldstein, Nina Harada, Ray Hobbs, Kate Jones, Jeremy Mascia, Rob Ready and Dan Williams. The play is directed by Eric Reid, who also helmed Heath's winning piece in “ShortLived.” An original score for Forking! was composed and is performed live each night by Arlen Ginsburg.
About the Ticket Supplier: Combined Artform/Theatre Asylum
Founded in 1998, C.A.F.E. (Combined Artform Entertainment) is on a mission to develop and combine all art forms to pioneer the "arts of the future," as well as be an active and supporting member of the San Francisco--and now Los Angeles--performance production scene. Created by Producing Artistic Director Matthew Quinn, and joined by Steve Kahn in 1999, C.A.F.E. has collaborated with actors, singers, filmmakers, sketch comedy groups, musicians, improvisers and fine artists in more than 100 shows, including Santaland Diaries, Eavesdropper (SF), Monday Night Improv Jam (SF), Thursday Night Improv Jam (LA), PAPA (at the Eureka with Open Fist), Tilted Frame Improv and the SF Solo Festival.