HUSTLIN AN ORIGINAL PLAY THIS SUNDAY at 4pm

News Release
For Immediate Release
August 28th, 2014
Info and RSVP for TIX: Meri Pakarinen
(213)265-6313
strindberglaboratory@gmail.com
HUSTLIN has one more performance in McCadden Theatre, in the heart of Hollywood Theater Row!
HUSLIN is an original play by The Strindberg Laboratory. This is the first play The Strindberg
Laboratory has done in connection with SST productions in Sidewalk Studio Theatre in Burbank. Now is the last chance to see this powerful show at the McCadden Theater in Hollywood on Sunday, September 7th at 4pm. HUSTLIN was the pick of the day on LA Weekly on August 17th with the two opening sold out performances and also performed to full audience on Sunday August 24th at 4pm. This is play has been written and performed with members of a Skid Row Recovery Program in Downtown Los Angeles. Some of the comments of the audience through email and facebook: “Amazing and powerful theater experience with stellar actors. So creative.” “I saw the 2pm show. It was AMMAZZZZZING!! After years of drug and alcohol destruction, I’m in recovery. You guys are talented and inspiring. Thank you for sharing your gifts and I hope to see more of your artistic talents in the future!!”
“…Experience the ups and downs of hustlers, pimps, prostitutes, corrupt ministers and ex-cons trying to survive in a world where the game is stacked against them.”
HUSLIN is based on the experiences of the actors in the play own life stories of street life. Developed in Skid Row, the play is broken down into many original stories with freestyle rap linking the whole play together. The Strindberg Laboratory focuses in bringing hope to society where the gap between rich and poor increases every day. We want to give back the voice to those people who have lost it by offering theatre workshops as a way to cope with financial, physical, emotional and creative poverty. The Strindberg Theatre company is young, vibrant and known for its ability to breathe fresh new life into old works; this production is no exception, however the company stays simultaneously true to Strindberg’s naturalist vision and intricate stage direction.
Our group creates professional theater productions with our students and with our theater members. This allows us to build a creative dialogue and relationship with communities and strengthen our own professional skills and creativity. Through the messages of our plays we strengthen and bring local communities together. The Strindberg laboratory performs international tours to Europe as our ties and part of our legacy comes from Europe. One of the founders of the Strindberg Laboratory, Meri Pakarinen, worked from 2006 to 2012 for young adults at risk program for Helsinki City Educational Department in Sininen Verstas in Helsinki (The Blue Workshop and The Blue Academy). This is the model that we use for our creative workshops here in Los Angeles. In addition to creating productions and workshops here in Los Angeles we collaborate with different independent theatres throughout the country and in Europe.
The performance is a suggested donation of 12 dollars and is at the McCadden Theatre, 1157 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038. Call 213-265-6313 to secure a ticket to our limited performance on Sunday, September 7th at 4pm. You can find out more about The Strindberg Laboratory in our website: www.strindberglaboratory.com and see some excerpts from HUSLIN.
“We thoroughly enjoyed this production and the stories your very talented cast so selflessly shared with all of
us. We wish you much continued success and all the best to your talented team too.
“Please contact me with new programs/productions. We will do our best to support this program.”
HUSTLIN is produced by The Strindberg Laboratory and is made possible by SST productions whose generous offer to donate their theatre for TSL performances made this production possible with Skid Row recovery program actors. SST Productions is a five-year-old, LA-based nonprofit theatrical producing organization with a mission to provide the best in original and classical performances in a variety of venues.
The Strindberg Laboratory team has proven itself into bringing clarity and solution into the lives of individuals...there can be a great deal of pain, disappointment and suffering in their past, which can lead many onto a path of personal destruction. This program can be the beginning of a process in helping to find healthier building blocks and thus, start the process of reconstructing one’s life and turning it around. Huslin is performed by the Skid Row Program but it also features TSL founder Meri Pakarinen who’s other performances is said to probe enormous emotional depths. TSL co-founder Michael Bierman acting in other plays including Vincent Van Gogh is said to more than just imitate Vincent as he exposes his soul which is so prevalent in his paintings.
Summary:
McCadden Theatre and The Strindberg Laboratory
Presents
HUSTLIN
Written by The Strindberg Laboratory Team
Directed by Michael Bierman and Meri Pakarinen - Produced by The Strindberg Laboratory
Sunday, September 7th at 4pm
McCadden Theatre
1157 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Made possible by SSL Productions
12 dollar donation at the door
Tickets are limited so please call 213-265-6313 to RSVP
& Info:
www.strindberglaboratory.com/productions
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