Pure Shock Value
Description
PURE SHOCK VALUE centers on the plight of three longtime Hollywood friends — Ethan Johnson, his brother, Tex, and Ethan’s girlfriend, Gabby — who are trying their damndest to make a film called Barking Spiders. How low will they go to get the film made?
Production Info
Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Press Quotes
“Think the Hollywood satire has been done to death? Think again. Playwright Matt Pelfrey sets the format’s tired tropes of murderous Tinseltown greed among the most desperately delusional of wannabe edgy filmmakers and snarks them up with ever more outrageous sex, gore, movie jokes and violence … SHOCK pulls off the rare feat of becoming funnier and more acute the more over-the-top it goes.” —Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
“Matt Pelfrey’s PURE SHOCK VALUE brilliantly updates the scathingly bleak Hollywood satire for a post-Tarantino generation of Silver Lake slackers.” —Rob Avila, San Francisco Bay Guardian
“You’ll laugh, you’ll feel terrible for laughing, and you’ll laugh some more watching this Grand Guignol send-up of those trying to make it in Tinseltown.” —Matt Sussman, San Francisco Flavorpill
“Astonishingly witty dialogue and riotous situations.” —Kevin Langson, EDGE SF
“PURE SHOCK VALUE is a great black comedy.” —Richard Connema, Talkin’ Broadway
Author
Matt PelfreyMatt Pelfrey is a theatre, film and television writer. His plays have been produced around the country and overseas and include COCKROACH NATION, TERMINUS AMERICANA, AN IMPENDING RUPTURE OF THE BELLY, PURE SHOCK VALUE, FREAK STORM and recently the stage adaption of IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. Los Angeles Theatre Works produced an audio version of IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, which aired nationally on National Public Radio. A live version of the LATW production toured the U.S. and played over twenty venues. His plays are available from Broadway Play Publishing, Original Works Publishing, and Samuel French. He is the winner of the Actor's Theater of Louisville’s Heideman Award, a Backstage Garland Award for playwriting, and was nominated for an LA WEEKLY playwriting award and a Los Angeles Ovation award. He worked as a staff writer on the MTV drama SKINS. His screenplay SURVIVALISM was included on the 2011 Blood List. He received his BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State and his Master in Fine Arts in Playwriting from UCLA. He teaches undergraduate playwriting at UCLA.
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 12/21/2011 |
| Pages | 76 |
| ISBN | 9780881455175 |
Special Notes
First produced by Killing My Lobster, San Francisco
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com