Pearson Jenks’s Fatal Loins at the Hollywood Fringe Festival is a fun romp through the vagaries of small theatre groups, especially those that do Shakespeare. A harried stage manager has to deal with a battling duo of actors, each itching for an Act Off to rid the stage of the other. A new ingenue, engaged to one actor but who falls in love with another actor, one who seems to fall in love with each new face he sees. A knife, a stabbing, chloroform and Romeo and Juliet style fake deaths that never seem to work all add to the hilarity. A 911 call, the arrival of a stud of a cop and seemingly happy endings all around. It’s a brisk 60-minute romp that leaves its audience in stitches, even more so if you have ever worked in little theatre.
https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/9691