LAST OF THE KNOTTS
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Voted Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2011!
“GO”! “ . . . fascinatingly complex and morally nuanced. Disturbing undercurrents show through
with unexpected pathos” L.A. Weekly
with unexpected pathos” L.A. Weekly
A One Man Comi-Tragedy. Doug, a carefree hipster, faces the ultimate choice: Fatherhood or Knott?
After a childhood of severe abuse by his alcoholic father (a Florida judge obsessed with his own legacy) he declares he will be the “Last of The Knotts.” Doug then embarks on a carefree life to avoid the bourgeois anchor of family. Set in exuberant, darkly permissive 1980's Los Angeles, this hour-long “comi-tragedy” shadows his search for redemptive love with an exotic woman who deals cocaine and keeps a pet seven-foot boa constrictor. When she unexpectedly gets pregnant, her desire to have a child provokes a conflict, and Doug must choose fatherhood . . . or Knott.
Written and performed by poet/hipster Doug Knott. Knott has been a performance poet in LA since the early 80s. He produced and emceed his own cult variety show at the Lhasa Club and later had his own nightclub, Famous-Knott on La Brea in Hollywood. He was a member of the performance poetry group, the Carma Bums, touring the Western states in the 90s. Knott is a prolific poet, having had many of his works published, and has won national awards for his poetry videos.
Saturday, January 16th, 2016 at 5pm
Tickets: $25
All proceeds go to support Santa Monica Playhouse
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The Main Stage
1211 4th street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Santa Monica, CA 90401
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