Four Dogs and a Bone

       

HOLLYWOOD, CA - Brenda is a fresh face on the Hollywood scene and is working on her first movie, thanks to her new age chanting and her 'connections' within Hollywood's inner circle. Colette, the lead actress in this movie is at the crossroads of her career, the success of this movie dictates whether her future roles are romantic lead or romantic lead's best friend. Bradley is a weathered producer, using every trick, scheme and deception to keep this movie on budget. Victor wrote the movie, it's his first and he's looking forward to a bright future of being the next Hollywood go-to writer. But then things don't always go as planned.

             
Written by the Academy Award winning writer, John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck), Four Dogs and A Bone is laced with Shanley's trademark wit and pokes a raw finger at the movie industry. His finely tuned characters typify those working inside of a vicious Hollywood machine which will either crush its young or leave them as the last one standing.

       

Natasha Gaty plays the wide-eyed Brenda with an ideal amount of naive optimism, it is great fun to watch her talons spring forth when she is provoked. A great deal of satisfaction also comes from Ilyse Mimoun's bitter Colette, like watching the evil popular girl from high school trying to gracefully extricate herself from the bottom of a mud puddle. The smooth-talk stylings of the ruthless Bradley, portrayed by Rob Shapiro, would receive honors from the Robert Evans school of producing. David Heckel's Victor had the greatest arc of the evening going from tinsel town newbie to Hollywood's Top 100 Most Powerful list in not time flat. Directed by Lauren Patrice Nadler, Four Dogs And A Bone is a must see for anyone who has ever wanted to work in Hollywood's guts and glamour industry. Now playing Tuesdays and Wednesdays through June 30 at the Elephant Asylum. - Ruston Harker

     

    

   

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