Growing Up Linda

Los Angeles/Edinburgh -- CalArts Festival Theater presents the first full, public performance of Growing up Linda, written by Marsian De Lellis and P.J. McWhiskers with additional material by Joel Eggers. Puppet Artist Marsian directs.

Enter the off-kilter world of Linda Carvel, fictitious daughter of the famed New York ice cream mogul. A heavy dollop of puppet tragicomedy, a sprinkle of kitsch-surrealism & more than the recommended daily allowance of weird. Starring Alanna Blair, Brett Waldon, Steven Wendt and Anne Yatco; Growing up Linda tells the roller coaster story of the heiress to an ice cream cake fortune and her lifelong battle with eating disorders, drugs and the frozen treats industry.

Writer/Director Marisian De Lellis' recent performances include: workshops of Growing Up Linda (Space Ark, Theatre for the New City, CalArts), Beyond the Beyond (Cornerstone), Jackson's Private Zoo (California Institute for Abnormal Arts), Tips & Trends for 2007 (Feast of Fools Podcast). Marsian's visual art has appeared at Acorn Gallery (Pasadena), Grand Central Art Center (Santa Anna) and in The Scar of Visibility (University of Minnesota Press). Marsian is active in the experimental puppet slam scene as former host of Blood From a Turnip Rhode Island's Only Late Night puppet Cabaret, a regular personality at the Orlando Puppet Festival's Puppets from the Edge, and designer of www.PuppetSlam.com, a website bringing the puppetslam nation to your fingertips.

Linda is played by Alanna Blair, who is also appearing in the solo adaptation of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land: She do the police in different voices. Co-star Brett Waldon was seen at the fringe last year at Venue 13 in Jack, or the Submission, also presented by CalArts Festival Theater. Alanna Blair, Stephen Wendt and Anne Yatco make their Fringe debut.

CalArts Festival Theater has partnered with Venue 13 for the last few years to expand programming to include the experimental work of the students and recent alumni of the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, USA, just north of Los Angeles.

For more information visit www.calartsatvenue13.com

Growing up Linda @ Venue 13
'She do the police in different voices' @ Venue 13
Aug 10th - 17th . 5pm. £8 (£5 conc.)
(nb. Previews 8th and 9th @ 12am £3. NO SHOW MONDAY 11TH AUG)

To book tickets call Venue13 Box Office on 07074 201313 (Only open throughout August) or click the link below.