TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE OF

WRITTEN BY MITCH MONTGOMERY

DIRECTED BY BEN AUSTEN

 Part of The New York International Fringe Festival – FringeNYC

 A production of The Present Theatre Company

August 12th – 28th

Tickets: $18  – For tickets visit www.FringeNYC.org

 Triumph Team is proud to present the World Premiere of TOO FAR TO GO(D?) as part of the 20th annual New York International Fringe Festival – FringeNYC. The production will run August 15-26 at FringeNYC Venue #14 The Steve & Marie Sgouros Theatre (115 MacDougal Street, 3rd Floor) with performances Monday August 15th at 2:15 PM, Thursday August 18th at 3:00 PM, Sunday August 21st at 8:00 PM, Thursday August 25th at 2:00 PM and Friday August 26th at 9:00 PM.

You are cordially invited to join film director Stanley Kubrick, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke and astronomer Carl Sagan for dinner and debate about the nature of life in the universe. Three dudes. Arguing about aliens. True story. (Kinda.)

In the mid-1960s, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke set out to collaborate on an ambitious project, a proverbial “really good” science fiction movie. Only one problem: they can’t figure out how to end the damn thing. Enter Carl Sagan, who has agreed to spend an evening at Kubrick’s penthouse apartment in Manhattan hashing out the collaborators’ wildly different ideas before bitterness and anxiety over a looming studio deadline drive them apart. This surreal discussion of what the Universe may hold in store for mankind touches on the Cold War, the Academy Awards, the space program, the rules of chess and the ultimate roles of art and science. TOO FAR TO GO(D?) is a historical comedy, frequently punctuated by evocative video projections, that examines the creative processes of three brilliant men in the context of a protracted argument about what aliens would probably look like.

TOO FAR TO GO(D?) is a new play written by Mitch Montgomery, directed by Ben Austen and inspired by a real-life encounter between Kubrick, Clarke and Sagan. The cast of the FringeNYC production will feature Ben Austen as Arthur C. Clarke, Jef Holbrook as Stanley Kubrick, and Mitch Montgomery as Carl Sagan. Mr. Austen, Mr. Holbrook and Mr. Montgomery all hail from Columbus, Georgia and have been collaborating on theater, short films, web series, comics, motion comics and podcasts in various combinations for the better part of twenty years.

Ben Austen is an award-winning director, actor and filmmaker. He won Best Director at the Los Angeles 120-Hour Film Festival and his film also took the Grand Jury Prize. Ben recently wrapped filming Last Call and has worked on many motion picture, film and television productions with Whitestone Motion Pictures, 20th Century Fox and others. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, he has performed coast to coast with many different theatre companies, including the Atlanta Shakespeare Co, Springer Opera House, and various venues in L.A and NYC.

As an actor, Jef Holbrook has appeared in Drop Dead Diva for Lifetime, Shaq, Inc for TBS, and Twisted History for ID. On stage, he creates new works that bring technology and improvisational theatre together, such as I Tweeted on My iPad and I Liked It and sequels for Springer Opera House. He spends a lot of time drawing comics at cricketcomics.com, making podcasts at assembler.fm, and whoring himself out @jefholbrook on Twitter, at 1fjef.tv or jefholbrook.com. Jef somehow tricked Audible into letting him become the voice for Scientific American magazine.

Mitch Montgomery has worked as a theater critic in New York for ten years, writing for Off-Off-Online, Backstage Magazine, Pop Matters and his own site, SurrealTimePress.com. In 2008, he presented and starred in his one person show, a science fiction lecture called TRIUMPH OF THE UNDERDOG, as part of FringeNYC. The New York Times hailed that play as “all too authentic,” remarking that it “keeps the laughs and giddy comic suspense coming.” Mr. Montgomery holds a BFA in Media and Performing Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design.

For tickets visit www.FringeNYC.org

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