Virtual(ly) "No Exit"

Coin & Ghost Presents

No Exit [-19] 

A Digital, Quarantined Reimagining of Sartre’s Classic

Directed by Alex Demers & Zach Davidson

Presented on Zoom

Saturday, April 11, 2020 @ 6 & 8:30pm PST

Tonight!!! 

Coin & Ghost, LA’s theatrical home for remixed mythologies, will present its latest digital adventure, No Exit [-19], by Jean-Paul Sartre. With two performances on Saturday, April 11, 2020 (6:00 and 8:30pm PST), the performance takes Sartre’s classic and streamlines it, placing it directly in the context of today’s world: quarantine, Zoom, and a collective sense of existential dread. 

In No Exit [-19], three recently dead strangers find themselves trapped together in Hell, but it isn’t the Hell they had expected—no flames, no torture, no demons—just two other humans connected via Zoom, and some disappointing furniture. Over the course of the play, they come to discover that they have been confined together intentionally, that the three of them are so incompatible that Hell, for them, is just being trapped together for eternity. Co-directed by Coin & Ghost Artistic Director Zachary Reeve Davidson and frequent collaborator, Alex Demers, No Exit [-19] is a thoughtful, timely, and surprisingly funny take on the Hell we are all currently living in. For information and to join the Zoom call for the performance, please visit https://coinandghost.org/noexit19. Tickets are a suggested donation of $5, and half the proceeds will be donated to the Coronavirus Relief Fund.

The cast of No Exit [-19] is comprised of Davidson (Garcin), Jessica Antenorcruz (Inez), Elisa Rosin (Estelle) and Demers (Host). Choreography is by Rachael Caselli, with stage management by Niki Armato, technical rebellion by Will Cotter and documentation by Meredith Adelaide. The ambitious team is made complete with Coin & Ghost’s inner circle that includes its Managing Director Marguerite French, Associate Artistic Director Kendall Johnson and Director of Community Engagement Joseph Baca (with Davidson, Rosin, and Armato rounding out the admin team).

LINKS:

• No Exit [-19] info & tickets - https://coinandghost.org/noexit19 

• Coin & Ghost - https://coinandghost.org

• C&G Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/coinandghost

• C&G Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/coinandghost

• C&G Twitter - https://twitter.com/CoinAndGhost 

"You Can't Have Empathy Without Pain"

Baby It's Cold Outside
Lady Gaga & Taylor Kinney

What is now an annual tradition for the couple, Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney took the Polar Bear Plunge in Chicago as a show of support to the Special Olympics.

The mighty Gaga took to Twitter and tweeted this about it: “You can’t have empathy without pain, Get FREEZING cold so they can feel your warmth. #SpecialOlympics #PolarPlunge.”

Cool sentiment, from one half of the hottest couple on the planet IMHOP. 

Freezing With Strangers
Lady Gaga 

Well at least the Lady got to cover herself some to fend off the cold, her poor fiancee sported nothing but swim trunks and a baseball cap as he carried her into the freezing water to take the plunge.

In the end it's all in good fun for a good cause and nobody gets hurt.

Happy Monday, hope you don't have a Polar Bear of a week!

Find out more about the Special Olympics at:

http://www.specialolympics.org/ 

Patricia Arquette, Straight Up

So Cool: Patricia Arquette

I have always been a fan of Patricia Arquette's. Whatever she is in she adds that extra level that makes it something special. A few of my personal favorites: True Romance, Ed Wood & David Lynch's Lost Highway.

Aside from her considerable acting talent I also have a love for the fact that she is a humanitarian and stands up for what she believes in.

One of my very favorite reports about her is how the producers of her hit series Medium requested she lose weight for the role. Nobody hits the point better than Patricia when her response was a firm "No" as she countered that her role was that of a housewife and a mother who would not look like a Victoria's Secret model.

I happened upon this tidbit between her and another favorite actress Mom of mine, Amy Adams on Jezebel here is what the site printed:

Patricia Arquette:  I had a big fight with one paparazzo.

Amy Adams: I wish I had been there to have your back.

Patricia Arquette: He kept following us. And I said, "OK, leave us the fuck alone." And he goes, "Nice, mom! Good job!" I said, "I'm teaching my daughter. If a man is following you and you tell him to go away and he doesn't, you turn around and say, 'F— you!' as loud as you can." Because there's no difference. I don't care if he has a camera.

Awesome!!! The woman is teaching her children not to talk to strangers and just because you hold a camera does not make it right for you to approach a child in any way, shape or form. So yeah paparazzi Ms. Arquette put it perfectly: F#@k you!

Patricia on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000099/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1

Amy on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010736/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1