October 9 — Performance of David Hoppe’s “After Paul McCartney”
In case you are not fully recovered from your 2008 Fringe Fit: A short encore performance of the top selling 2008 IndyFringe show, “Assholes and Aureoles,” and direct from the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Rob Johansen in Provocate favorite “After Paul McCartney”
When: Thursday, October 9, 6:30 p.m.
Where: Athenaeum Auditorium, 401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis
Tickets: $25 - at the door or by phone 317-522-8099; $20 - 2008 fringe button wearers and students. Prize for the best Edinburgh look! Bagpipes encouraged. Proceeds to benefit the IndyFringe building fund at 719 East St. Clair Street.
A short encore performance of the top selling 2008 IndyFringe show, “Assholes and Aureoles,” and direct from the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Rob Johansen in “After Paul McCartney.”
From the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, IndyFringe in association with Victory Dog Production presents Rob Johansen in After Paul McCartney, a play by David Hoppe, directed by John Green.
“…a funny and gently affecting play, and one of the slickest pieces of one-man raconteuring I’ve seen at the Fringe this year.”
– Malcolm Jack, The Scotsman
“Rob Johansen is excellent in this tale of two childhood friends reuniting to go in search of the ex-Beatle…David Hoppe’s script is lyrical and engaging…”
– Deborah Klayman, Three Weeks
Why does Provocate think you should attend this event?
This is one of Provocate’s favorite new plays, in part because it deals with a topic that is strangely ignored in American popular culture: male friendship. Beer commercials on TV, where else is friendship seriously discussed?
And for your listening pleasure …
“Mr Moonlight” plays a critical part in the play, give it a listen to remember what the characters are moved by. Wikipedia, by the way, has this to say about the song from “Beatles for Sale“:
Many critics panned the cover version of “Mr. Moonlight”, and Allmusic went as far to call it Lennon’s “beloved obscurity” that wound up as “arguably the worst thing the group ever recorded.” Q magazine agreed, calling “Mr. Moonlight” “appalling.” Rowley noted that the original by Dr Feelgood and the Interns was “hardly outstanding” too. (A cover of Little Willie John’s “Leave My Kitten Alone”, recorded at the same session, was rejected for the finished album but much more highly regarded by fans and critics; it was widely bootlegged before seeing official release on 1995’s Anthology 1 compilation.)
