Porters of Hellsgate's LIMOUSINE, MIDNIGHT BLUE to Play Hollywood Fringe 2013, 6/8-30

The Porters of Hellsgate present Limousine, Midnight Blue, a one-man show starring Jamey Hecht, produced by The Porters of Hellsgate at Hollywood Fringe 2013, running June 8-30.

In this year of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination, Jamey Hecht presents a one-man, multimedia sight and sound show: Limousine, Midnight Blue, based on his 2009 book from Red Hen Press, Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film, at Theatre of NOTE.

Limousine is a sequence of 36 poems of 14 lines each. It uses the famous and appalling "Zapruder Film" of JFK's death as a prism through which to view America and the world. Refracted rays touch on crime and punishment; guilt and responsibility; charisma and love; the dying victim's experience during the stretched-out seconds of his violation and death; and the dark world of war profiteering, narco-traffic, and deceit where the facts of power determine history. Epic tradition (e.g., Homer, Dante, Milton) shares the stage with science, religion, and popular culture. Limousine, Midnight Blue is a haunted show based on a haunted book about a haunted film of an event whose hungry ghosts still walk the American unconscious, rattling their chains louder every year.

A translator of Sophocles and Plato, Hecht has written on the disaster of 11-22-63 in the pages of Counterpunch, Media Monitors Network, Global Outlook, The Kennedy Assassination Chronicles, and FromtheWilderness.com, where he was Senior Staff Writer from 2003 to 2006. Hecht has spoken at conferences of both J.F.K. Lancer and C.O.P.A. (the Coalition on Political Assassinations), and edited the books Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert, and Someone Would Have Talked: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Conspiracy to Mislead History by Larry Hancock. Hecht has taught world literature at various universities on both coasts, and his poetry and prose have been published in a wide variety of scholarly journals and literary magazines. This is his 5th year acting with The Porters.

Limousine plays at Theatre of NOTE, 1517 N. Cahuenga Blvd. at The Hollywood Fringe Festival in rep with Larry Cedar's Orwellian. Limousine features a preview performance on Saturday, June 8th, at 8pm, followed by a limited engagement run playing Thursday, June 13th, at 10pm, Saturday, June 15th, at 1:30pm, Sunday, June 23rd, at 10:30pm, Thursday, June 27th, at 8pm, and Sunday, June 30th, at 12:15am. Limousine, Midnight Blue has a run time of 1 hour, with no intermission.

Tickets are $10. Reservations are available online via HollywoodFringe.org. Reservations can also be made via our e-mail or voice mail at PortersofHellsgate@gmail.com or 818-325-2055.

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