The Beverly Hills Hotel Peace Talks
by GREGG OSTRIN
Directed by Randy Brenner
Taking place over a weekend in a suite in the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1968, three months after the Six Day War, the play is based on a real-life incident. When it was announced that American Jewish actor Barbra Streisand would be starring in the film of Funny Girl opposite Egyptian actor Omar Sharif, both Israel and Egypt threatened to boycott the film. In a fictionalized event based on the situation, a movie executive and a publicity executive host an impromptu peace talk with an Israeli and Egyptian diplomat. As they debate the movie, the issue of the Middle East comes front and center. When the two diplomats find themselves falling for one another, they mirror both the relationship between both the stars and the characters in the film and bring up the still very relevant question; can these countries ever find peace?
Coming to CVREP on March 5th at 2pm.
MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT: GREGG OSTRIN
GREGG OSTRIN
A native of Los Angeles, Gregg spent the first 30 years of his life as an actor. In 1990, as a founding member of L.A.’s Scrap Theater he began writing plays. His play RANK AND FILE was one of the first produced at The Hudson Theater. He has since had three plays produced professionally, KOWALSKI at the Two Roads Theater, TRUFFLES at the Secret Place Theater in New York City and most recently, THE SOUL OF MOTOWN at Stage West in Calgary, Canada. He has also sold numerous screenplays and TV pilots. His play THE SPY WHO WENT INTO REHAB, a comedy about toxic masculinity, will be premiering in March 2024 at the Pacific Resident Theater, in Venice California. Gregg is thrilled to have THE BEVERLY HILLS PEACE TALKS receive its premiere reading at the Coachella Valley Repertory.
MEET THE CAST
JOEL BRYANT
GERI-NIKOLE LOVE
EVI EDEN
ALI ZAHIRI
ORIGINS: 2024
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