LA (IR)RESISTANCE Benefit Evening Held at Bootleg Theatre, 7/8

La (Ir)résistance, a benefit evening for the Edinburgh-bound At Sundown, will be held on Thursday, July 8 at the Bootleg Theater. The event will help the company of this world premiere work make its move to Scotland before returning to Los Angeles this fall. Including a special performance of Brimmer Street Theatre Company's Leiris/Picasso, the festivities will begin with cocktails at 7pm.

Hosted by Brimmer Street Theatre Company and Bootleg Theater, La (Ir)résistance will feature food, drink, theatre, dance, music, magic, a kissing booth, photo booth, fortune telling, and raffles. The popular Gastrobus will provide the repast; musical performances (beginning at 10:30pm) will include Rev Juli Crocket and the Evangenitals, Bulgarian Moonshine Company, the Action Jackson Twins, indie rockers Nadine et Terrence, and more.

At Sundown is an original work about memory, aging, and identity. Developed over the last year, this original theatre piece explores memory, aging, and sundowning, a phenomenon often experienced by people with dementia or Alzheimer's Disease. This syndrome causes agitation and hallucinations during the daily cycle, especially as the evening approaches. Directed by Zoe Moore, half of the company are students at California Institute of the Arts.

Leiris/Picasso twists the true story of an underground meeting between Picasso and the French existentialists into a slamming-doors sex farce. Enduring hunger, the Nazis, and each other, the greatest thinkers of the 20th century risk their lives to find that the master has written a play so unwatchable that even they cannot stomach the pretension. The L.A. Weekly said, "GO!"

Brimmer Street Theatre Company is a Los Angeles-based performance company with a commitment to develop original theatre artists whose work challenges established forms and expectations, and to assemble a close ensemble of these artists, craftsmen, students, and benefactors to produce work of exceptional innovation and character. The mission of BSTC is to entertain, inspire, challenge, astound, and empower audiences and artists in the Los Angeles community. For more information, visit www.BrimmerStreet.org.

Tickets prices for La (Ir)résistance range from $10-$50. For more information and to purchase tickets for the benefit evening on July 8 as well as all other performances of Leiris/Picasso, visit www.BrimmerStreet.org or call (213) 290-2782. Leiris/Picasso continues on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday at 8pm through July 24, and tickets are $29 . Discounts are available when tickets are purchased seven days prior to the performance date. To purchase tickets and to get more info on discounts, call (213) 290-2782, or reserve online: www.BrimmerStreet.org. A portion of the ticketing fees for all Brimmer Street productions goes toward supporting LA Stage Alliance through their partnership with Patron Technology. The Bootleg Theater is located at 2220 Beverly Boulevard, in Los Angeles, 90057. Free parking is available.

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