An Interview with Brandon Ogborn About His Play, The TomKat Project - 2013-04-08

An Interview with Brandon Ogborn About His Play, The TomKat Project April 8, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker

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Before Brandon Ogborn's play The TomKat Project blows up even bigger than it already has, we thought we better get to know him a little — before he becomes so famous he won't return our phone calls.

Fortunately for us, Synthia Fagen caught the Chicago production and first clued us in that it was a riot. So we asked her if she would interview Ogborn for the Underground Bunker.

The idea behind The TomKat Project is deceptively simple: Ogborn took all the insane media coverage of Katie Holmes's split with Tom Cruise last summer and constructed from it a parody of our obsessions with celebrity (with Scientology getting a skewering along the way). With a small cast that has actors playing numerous roles each, the play weaves together actual language from media coverage with lines invented by Ogborn. The result is a smash, say critics, and the small production is sold out in Chicago through April, with hopes for bigger things soon.

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