British Comedy John Smith: I'm Alive! -- A One-Man Show
The MET Theatre (1089 N. Oxford Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90029)
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- $15.00
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- $7.50*
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The last date listed for John Smith: I'm Alive! was Saturday July 28, 2007 / 8:00pm.
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4 Goldstar Member Reviews
Giggling Girls
I admire John Smith's courage and talent in performing a retrospective of his unusual life.Written on Jul 23 2007
The Met Theatre was not air conditioned or ventilated the night I was there and it smelled of cat urine. I can guess with air conditioning it would have not been nearly as stiiling.
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Goldstar Member
It was an honest and hard-to-watch experience. In a word, uncomfortable.Written on Jun 22 2009
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Goldstar Member
It was enjoyable, but we felt that it was marketed a little incorrectly... It shouldn't be said that it's in the same vein as Eddie Izzard and Sasha Baron Cohen... It should be described more as a "one man show" as we were expecting a comedian, not a one act play dramatizing his life.Written on Jul 30 2007
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Susan
This was not funny in the slightest. He is nothing like Eddie Izzard or Sasha Baron Cohen who are both talented performers with comic genious.Written on Jul 23 2007
The characters he portrayed from Wales & Scotland had American accents, dissapointing as most Brits can pull off those dialects with reasonable ease.
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More Information About John Smith: I'm Alive!
Quotes & Highlights
- "You'll crack up non-stop!" —Deptford UK Glass
Description
John Smith is a prominent citizen of the world. He must be. One sees his name on hotel and motel registers throughout the nation.
Seriously, John Smith is the actual name of the writer/performer of John Smith: I’m Alive!, a new autobiographical comedy at the MET. Before you throw your hands up in the air and roll your eyes, wait just a minute. How does this solo performance differ from most other stage autobiographies? It’s funny and entertaining. It’s a success story that begins in London but winds up with a distinctly American conclusion.
Smith, as a young boy growing up in his native London, develops fears at an early age. No wonder: His mother, a beautiful Jewish Holocaust survivor introduces him to classic horror movies (imagining them as romances) on TV when he’d much rather watch cartoons. His parents love him, but they’re strange, and may have genetically predisposed him to the obsessive compulsive disorder which intensifies in his teens. He’s also a bully magnet, and he finds respite only in his successful ventures into school plays.
John moves away from his parents at the advice of the family doctor, and he begins researching all sorts of new age therapies to relieve his unwanted conditions, from tarot cards to psilocybin mushrooms.
Smith gets an administrative job but, failing there, joins the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, where he has sex for the first time at the age of 26. But the local guru decides he’s too crazy for them and sends him packing.
John winds up going to the Czech Republic, gets cast in a play and a movie (“Chained Heat II”), and from there, decides to go to Hollywood and continues to get cast in theatre.
A man shouldering an affliction--that’s not new territory for a solo play. What makes this show different from dozens of others that would aspire to be like it is that Smith has a wonderful, chameleon-like facility for portraying a wide variety of characters, and has a style in presenting his story that is side-splittingly funny. It is, in part, a journey toward healing, but you’ll honestly be rooting for him.
This limited-engagement production marks the U.S. premiere.
Paul Koslo (director): Paul co-founded the MET Theatre over three decades ago. He’s appeared on Broadway (in the original production of “Hair,” which will be revived at the MET in September), in 35 feature films (including, by coincidence, “Chained Heat II”), and in dozens of TV shows and movies of the week.
About the Ticket Supplier: MET Theatre
The MET Theatre has built a reputation for producing varied works, ranging from the experimental and raw to the traditional and classic. Productions have included Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class, Murray Mednick's Scar (starring Ed Harris) and Beth Henley's Control Freaks (starring Holly Hunter, Carol Kane and Bill Pullman).