Video Promo by Squarebear Studios: LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, ADOPTÉE by Maggie Gallant, FronteraFest Long Fringe, Ground Floor Theatre, January 19 - 30, 2016

 Liberté Egalité Adoptée is a new solo show by British-born writer and performer Maggie Gallant. Part of the FronteraFest Long Fringe, the four performances run between Tuesday January 19th to Sunday January 31st at Austin’s Ground Floor Theatre.

The show premiered November 2015 at the SOLOCOM comedy festival in New York. It tells the story of the writer’s search for her French birth father, from discovering at 11 that she was adopted to uncovering at 48 the pack of lies that put her poor ‘French Papa’ at existential risk. 

Maggie first wrote about reuniting with her birth mother in the 2007 FronteraFest Short Fringe show ‘Hot Dogs at the Eiffel Tower’.  Liberté Egalité Adoptée is more than just an update to that story as Maggie begins to understand the perspectives of her parents, both adoptive and birth. And audiences certainly don’t need to have personal experience of adoption to recognize the universal themes of fitting in, standing out and figuring out who the heck you are.

The show combines elements of stand-up, storytelling and drama to portray English village life in the 1970s, London in the 1980s and Ancient Greece around the time of Pandora.

 

Liberté Egalité Adoptée 
by Maggie Gallant 
FronteraFest

Tues. Jan 19, 7 PM                  Mon. Jan 25, 9:15 PM
Sat. Jan 23, 8:15 PM               Sun. Jan 31, 2:15 PM

Ground Floor Theatre, 979 Springdale Road, Austin, TX 78702

 

Tickets available via www.hydeparktheatre.org  -- click on FronteraFest/Long Fringe