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World premiere of Reason for Referral this week at DFW Fringe Festival
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Reason For Referral
- When: Friday, April 4, 2008, 8:15 p.m.
- Where: Dallas Hub Theater, 2809 Canton Street, Dallas
- Cost: $10 - $20
- Age limit: All ages
The 3rd Annual DFW Fringe Festival at Dallas Hub Theater just opened featuring a variety of theater, dance, and comedy. A highlight of this year's festival is the world premiere of Reason for Referral written by local playwright, Lacy Lalene Lynch.
Combining combines live music, visual art, and theater, the play follows three young college theatre students who are struggling to create relationships and make sense of a world that doesn't understand them. In the end, all three individuals must ask themselves if their creativity is a blessing or a curse.
Lacy Lynch wrote the following about how this piece originated:
Reason for Referral was well-received as a stage reading in New York through the Ensemble Studio Theater, at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival where it won an award at the regional level, the Dallas Hub, and at Baylor University in Waco, TX.
I wrote it for my undergraduate honors thesis at Baylor three years ago and have been workshopping and perfecting it ever since. It explores the cultural myth of the “tragic artist” and why people with emotional disorders are drawn to create. It has a mental health platform- something I am very passionate about—which is very timely right now considering that Mental illness is the number one disorder in the US and Canada right now. This includes Depression, anxiety, ADHD and so on and so forth.
I was diagnosed with a mood disorder in college, and the play is loosely based on my experience with the stigmas associated with the psychological labels we receive. It is about finding your identity in a world that seeks to categorize and label you based on symptoms instead of the entire picture of who you are.
Reason for Referral plays on April 4, 6, 12, 13, 25, and 26 and you can click on the title for showtimes. Tickets can be purchased online or by calling 877-238-5596.
DFW Fringe Festival passes cost $60 and can be purchased online or by calling 877-238-5596. Click here for a complete festival schedule.
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