Selected “BEST OF THE FEST” of the 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival, LAST OF THE KNOTTS,a semi-autobiographical, one-man comi-tragedy, tells the story of poet-hipster, Doug Knott’s irreverent and thorny battle with becoming a father… or Knott! After putting up with a lifetime’s worth of pain from …his own abusive Judge of a Dad, Doug promises himself and his old man to be “the last of the Knotts” until… he falls in love with a beautiful woman with a pet boa constrictor… and “one of his sperm clings to a lifeboat inside her.” The show, too, is pregnant with laughs, squirms, and the comic and painful truth of life!
DATES AND TIME:
June 28, July 26, August 30, September 27
8:00pm
VENUE:
The Other Space at
Santa Monica Playhouse, a guest production
1211 Fourth St
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(Public Parking is on Fourth St., across from the theatre)
TICKETS: $25.00
http://www.brownpapertickets.com
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.