Heart & Sole : A Fundraiser

Many thanks to everyone who attended and supported this event.  It was truly a lovely experience.

SST Productions will present a one-night-only performance of Lynn Ferguson’s award-winning one-woman show, Heart & Sole, on July 7, 2010. The piece has already played to sold-out audiences at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in Australia, Hong Kong, Hampstead Theatre, London, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Heart & Sole is the story of Carol, an elementary school teacher in Scotland, who falls in love with David, a fish living in a tank at the local aquarium. From this absurd idea, Ferguson has spun a warmly twisted drama asking the question “can you love someone and not be like them?” Her talent for embodying vibrant personalities allows her to switch between three characters effortlessly. Helping to illustrate Carol’s dilemma, we meet her friend Elaine, a brassy housewife, and Sacha, a possibly cultish fish fanatic.

“ …a beautiful, wry, mature, life affirming piece.” – The Financial Times

“She left the audience quite literally not knowing whether to laugh or cry.” – The Times, London

This U.S. premiere will benefit SST’s programming, including a future theatre program for kids in the Los Angeles foster care systems.  SST Productions is a nonprofit community benefit organization established to create and present theatrical productions that entertain while educating and enlightening. SST has been home to several world and west coast premieres including Anthony Mora’s Modern Love and Mark Troy’s The Bitter Herbs. With an active international cultural exchange, SST presents theatre abroad (including at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), and includes international productions and performers at the Los Angeles theatre.

Tickets are $50, including the post-show cocktail reception with music by Jeremy Weinglass.

Doors open at 7:30pm, and the performance starts at 8pm.

Thanks to Steve Ullathorn for the photographs and design