San Francisco Fringe 2018 Presents 'Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex, and My Mother'

Jamie Brickhouse's award-winning, critically-acclaimed solo show Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex, and My Mother directed by Obie Award-winning David Drake (The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me) is his alcoholic odyssey from small-town sissy to louche Manhattanite that's wickedly intoxicating as he hits bottom and discovers he can't escape the all-consuming love of his mother Mama Jean. A Texan Elizabeth Taylor with the split personality of Auntie Mame and Mama Rose, she never has a thought she doesn't speak and unwittingly helps Jamie become an out, proud gay, HIV-positive man in recovery. Darkly comic, you'll cry laughing.

Based on Brickhouse's (three-time Moth StorySLAM champion; voices on Beavis and Butthead) critically-acclaimed memoir that Interview called "as funny as an evening with Carrie Fisher," and playwright Paul Rudnick praised as "witty, blisteringly honest, and wickedly intoxicating," it was a FRIGID Festival "Audience Choice Award" winner and "Best Bet". Director Drake says, "I was honored to guide a stellar performance from someone who is already an absolute master storyteller. Jamie's show is moving, hilarious-and award winning!"

With dazzling wit and unflinching honesty set against a multi-media backdrop of evocative photos, home movies, vintage postcards, and music haunted by Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?", Jamie tells the story of wrestling way too close to-and later loose from-booze, sex, and his overbearing, adorable Mama Jean. From the age of five stuck in Beaumont, Texas, all Jamie wanted was to be at a cocktail party with a martini in one hand and a cigarette in the other. All Mama Jean wanted was to keep him at that age, her Jamie doll forever. Mama Jean cast a long shadow throughout Jamie's life, no matter how deep in booze he swam or how far away from her amid New York's drinking set he strayed. Dangerous When Wet is a unique story about alcoholism, illness, death, AIDS, family heartbreak, and the relationship between a gay son and his mother.

Jamie Brickhouse (playwright and performer) is a New York Times published author of the critically-acclaimed Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother (St. Martin's Press), which was an Amazon "Best Book of May 2015," "Required Reading" in Mary Karr's The Art of Memoir, and a Book Chase "2015 Top 10 Nonfiction." A three-time Moth StorySLAM champion, National Storytelling Network Grand Slam champion, and Literary Death Match champ, Jamie has recorded voice-overs for Beavis and Butthead, and has performed at storytelling shows throughout New York and has been featured multiple time on the live stages and national podcasts of Kevin Allison's Risk! and Story Collider. Dangerous When Wet won an "Audience Choice Award" at the 2017 FRIGID Festival, was a "Best Bet" in both Theater is Easy and DC Metro Theater Arts, was featured in New York Post's "Page Six," and received rave reviews from the Washington Post, TimeOut New York, St. Paul Pioneer Press, NY Theater Guide, Theater is Easy, DC Metro Theater Arts, DC Theatre Scene, and Hi! Drama. He has been published in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Daily Beast, Salon, Huffington Post, Out, and POZ. Jamie lives with his common-law husband Michael in Manhattan. Find him @jamiebrickhouse on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and visit www.jamiebrickhouse.com.

David Drake (Director) is artistic director at the Provincetown Playhouse in Provincetown, MA. He is an actor-writer-director best known as the Obie Award-winning playwright/performer of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, one of the longest-running solo shows in Off-Broadway history. He also starred in Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (succeeding Charles Busch for 856 performances), originated the role of "Miss Deep South" in the hit Pageant, co-starred with Jim J. Bullock in End of the World Party at the 47th St. Theater, and with B.D. Wong in A Language of Their Own at The Public. TV credits: The Good Wife, Law and Order, The Beat, NY Undercover. Feature films: Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia, It's Pat, Naked in New York, David Searching, Bear City, Longtime Companion, and David's own adaptation of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. As a stage director, David has twice been a Directing Fellow at the Sundance Theater Lab, and has directed new works at The Public's Under the Radar Festival, Joe's Pub, and Rattlestick, among others. Most notably, David directed the 2009 world premiere of Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge, which made the "10 Best Lists" in The New Yorker, NY Post, The Advocate, Paper Magazine, and won a 2010 Village Voice Obie Award. He co-stars with Alan Cumming in the feature film After Louie.

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