Poop Poop, hop along for a wild ride with Mister Toad, it's beastly good fun!

Presented by FIERCE BACKBONE,  SAVING TOAD a play with seven songs for the perfect parents of perfect children is the third play of FIERCE BACKBONE’s 2010 Spring/Summer Staged Reading Series. Please join us for two Staged Reading performances, Sunday June 6th (7pm) & Monday June 7th (8pm), at The Lounge Theatre in Hollywood.

SAVING TOAD
a play with seven songs for the perfect parents of perfect children
by David Seidler

Kenneth Grahame, Secretary of the Bank of England and gentleman author, is trapped in a decade-long writers’ block and spectacularly dysfunctional marriage to England’s worst poetess. He creates a series of bedtime stories for their disturbed son, about a naughty Mister Toad and his river bank friends. The animals, however, have wills and lives of their own.

A FIERCE BACKBONE STAGED READING
Directed by David Seidler
Produced by Stephen Blackburn
Featuring: Andrew Boyle, Neil Dickson, Aly Fainbarg, Morris Nash, Darice Richman, Anna Simone Scott & Lori Allen Thomas

WHEN
Sunday, 6/6/10 @ 7pm
Monday, 6/7/10 @ 8pm

WHERE
The Lounge Theatre
6201 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, 90038
(1 block east of Vine, @ El Centro Ave.)

HOW
Online reservations:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dDNWOUhUdTBoU3VCNGwtRHlBN282VHc6MQ
or call 310-201-0064

Limited Seating
Suggested donation $10
Industry comps available

About David Seidler
DAVID SEIDLER was born in London, grew up on Long Island. Miseducated at Cornell U and the U of Washington. Served in the Signal Corps with total lack of distinction. Became Playwright In Residence (and Property Master!) at the San Francisco Actors’ Workshop. Wore sharp suits and drank multiple-martini lunches on Mad Ave. Wrote dubbing scripts for Godzilla The Monster movies. Became Political Advisor to Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara of Fiji. Bleated during an extended yet pleasant exile in New Zealand. Has enjoyed a long career in Hollywood, with twenty titles to his name, including “Tucker: The Man And His Dream” directed by Francis Coppola and starring Jeff Bridges. Nominated three times for WGA writing achievement awards, with one win. His new film “The King’s Speech”, directed by Tom Hooper, starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pierce, and a Who’s Who of British cinema opens on November 26, 2010. A production of the stage play by the same name is scheduled for Broadway this Fall.

About Fierce Backbone
Fierce Backbone is a 501(c)3 non-profit, collaborative organization of playwrights, actors and directors committed to developing new works for the stage. We understand that true development takes time, resources and a commitment to the creative process outside the pressure of producing live theater. We provide the environment for our writers to develop and mature their material through readings, scene work, improvisations, staged readings and workshop productions.

The Fierce Backbone Staged Reading Series & Workshop Productions
There are four plays in our 2010 Spring/Summer Staged Reading Series. Our first Staged Reading was Exit Laughing by Paul Elliott, which had 2 sold out performances May 7th & 8th. Our second Staged Reading was Osama Been Laughing by Jeremy Keohoe, which just completed performances on May 23rd & 24th. In 2009 we put up two workshop productions: the first, Cleo's Girls by Jan O'Connor, had a successful run of 6 performances in September 2009 at The Lex in Hollywood. Our second workshop production, Everything But by T.S. Cook, had a sold out run of 6 performances in December 2009 at The Secret Rose Theater in North Hollywood.

Anna Simone Scott & Neil Dickson

Andrew Boyle