MY WINNER WITH LAWRENCE

As part of the 30 Minutes or Less Festival presented by Matthew V. Quinn and Bertha Rodriguez at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre in Hollywood, writer-performer Lawrence Meyers manages to fill every nanosecond on stage with his Against All Odds: Coincidence, Chaos, and Everyday Miracles. Clever and witty to a fault, Meyers serves up the wonder of life like Chicken McNuggets, only much tastier.

Think of a Reader’s Digest version of Louis Malle’s 1981 cult classic My Dinner with Andre, starring André Gregory and Wallace Shawn. Now take out Shawn, toss in some pinecones, tennis balls, and laughs, and you pretty much have an idea of this petite gem. Meyers is like a sleight-of-hand artist, except instead of cards, he employs concepts like Jung’s synchronicity, thermodynamics, and quantum tunneling. With his affable manner, Meyers is more Will Rogers than Stephen Hawking and thus avoids abstruseness while leaving the wonder center stage.

Against All Odds: Coincidence, Chaos, and Everyday Miracles
part of the 30 Minutes or Less Festival
The Stephanie Fuery Studio Theater
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