VIRAL Plays The NY Int'l Fringe Fest 8/15-8/26 At The Soho Playhouse

GidEon Productions, LLC presents VIRAL, a play by Mac Rogers, directed by JorDana Williams, at the New York International Fringe Festival, a production of The Present Company.

...A woman googles "painless suicide" and finds the people who will help her end her life - if she will let them film it. And sell it. VIRAL is a frank, humane and surprisingly funny look at some very complex issues-assisted suicide, fetish, dignity and privacy in the age of viral videos, where there's nothing so twisted that it doesn't have an audience.

Mac Rogers, is the recipient of two FringeNYC overall excellence awards: Outstanding Playwright, 2007 (HAIL SATAN) and Outstanding Musical, 2005 (FLEET WEEK). Mac's play UNIVERSAL ROBOTS was recently named "Best Off-Off Broadway Play" by the Independent Theater Bloggers Association and earned nominations for Outstanding Production, Script, Actor, and Ensemble from the 2009 New York Innovative Theater Awards. His play THE SECOND STRING is published by Playscripts, Inc., and UNIVERSAL ROBOTS is anthologized in The New York Theatre Experience's Plays and Playwrights 2008.

VIRAL features a cast which includes Rebecca Comtois, Kent Meister, Jonathan Pereira, Amy Lynn Stewart, and Matthew Trumbull. VIRAL is a reunion of the creative team behind FringeNYC hits FLEET WEEK, HAIL SATAN and AIR GUITAR. GidEon Productions presents subtly innovative theater in a popular entertainment package, using genre to engage audiences in something fun and familiar-and then taking them somewhere unexpected. Other productions include THE BLUEPRINT PROJECT, THE LUCRETIA JONES MYSTERIES, THE FIRST ANNUAL ST. IGNATIUS CHANUKAH PAGEANT, THE SECOND STRING, THE ELECTRIC CAT, DIRTY JUANITA and UNIVERSAL ROBOTS (co-production with manhattantheatresource).

Tickets are $15 at www.fringenyc.org or 866.468.7619. Performances are Saturday, August 15 at 7:30 pm; Sunday, August 16 at 6:00 pm; Wednesday, August 19 at 3:00 pm; Sunday, August 23 at 10:00 pm and Wednesday, August 26 at 9:45 pm at The SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam St., between 6th Avenue and Varick Street).