Hollywood Fringe Hit ME LOVE ME Opens at FringeNYC Today

Hollywood Fringe Festival hit Me Love Me opens tonight at the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival, running for 5 performances only. Me Love Me, written by Brandon Baruch and directed by Second City Associate Artistic Director Marc Warzecha, will play The Players Theater (115 MacDougal Street, NYC) through August 17, 2013.

Me Love Me was a critical and audience favorite at the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival. The cast from the California production will recreate their roles for the NYC production, which includes Benjamin Durham, Lizzie Adelman, and Sto Strouss. Costume Design is by Laura Wong, Sound Design is by Corwin Evans, Scenic Design is by David Offner, Properties and Makeup Design are by Alexandra Prigge, and Hair Design is by Rene Maldonado Cortez.

Tuck Whitney is a narcissistic libertine with a middling acting career who loves himself, cocaine, and his girlfriend...in that order. Gemma is a Xanax-addicted performance artist with a side career as a celebrity liaison in a high-end Hollywood hotel. On the eve of their seventh anniversary, Tuck, six-months sober, attends a small screening party for a friend's new pilot, but a minor relapse leads him to a booze and coke-fueled Beverly Hills party. Early the next morning, Tuck is interrupted by a knock on the door. It's his fresh-faced, puppy-eyed biological clone, newly released from a laboratory in Westwood. As Tuck and Tuck embark on a tear of booze, drugs, and clone-sex (naturally), Gemma is left to pick up the pieces of their relationship and try to move on...or not.

"I am thrilled to have been invited to present Me Love Me at this year's New York International Fringe Festival," enthused playwright Baruch. "I think the essential game of this play is tricking the audience into truly falling in love with someone who they know is really not a good person. I am very proud of what Me Love Me has become. I believe we're telling a story that has never been told, and I hope audiences enjoy riding down a very slippery slope with Tuck."

The performance schedule for Me Love Me is as follows: today, Saturday, August 10 at 12:00 p.m., Sunday, August 11 at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, August 14 at 4:45 p.m., Friday, August 16 at 4:45 p.m., and Saturday, August 17 at 9:15 p.m. Tickets are now available by visiting www.fringenyc.org or by calling (866) 468-7619. Tickets will be available for in-person sales at fringeCENTRAL (1 East 8th Street) from 12:oo - 8:00 p.m. daily beginning July 27.