Today we venture outside our wheelhouse a smidge, but not TOO far, for the post concerns the coming together of two previous subjects: Cyndy Fujikawa, who wrote this wonderful six part series for us about her performing family back in 2013, AND the passe and problematic screen character James Bond.
Cyndy is a member of the Pacific Resident Theatre of Venice, California and she’s directing a farcical stage deconstruction of the Bond legend, The Spy Who Went Into Rehab by Gregg Ostrin. After all, booze, smoking, gambling, sex addiction, and a propensity for violence are not regarded as trivial foibles in 2024. Saving the world from evil is all well and good, but inappropriate quips in the workplace can get you called down to H.R. Ostrin’s funny play mines the comic possibilities of placing the ultimate toxic male in the here and now. Will the staff and patients at the facility rehabilitate him? Will he corrupt them? And can any of them be safe in a world of international bad actors and super criminals?
Find out when the play opens this Friday night, if you’re in the L.A. area! The play runs Fridays and Saturdays, June 7 through July 7. Information and tickets are here.