DRIVING THE SAUDIS, is opening at the SoHo Playhouse as part of The New York International Fringe Festival on Sunday August 15th at 9:30 for tickets and info visit www.fringenyc.org
"It's a story that sounds almost too incredible-the kind you'd eavesdrop in on at a restaurant. ‘The worst job I ever had,' is how actress Jayne Amelia Larson describes being a chauffeur in Beverly Hills. Not just an ordinary chauffeur. But a driver for vacationing Saudi royalty. Larson turned her eye-opening ordeal into a biting solo performance piece called "Driving the Saudis," partly a comedic recollection of being part of a 50-person detail of drivers who were to accommodate a major Saudi Arabian princess, seven additional family members and dozens of friends, nannies, secretaries and servants. Larson takes on the personas of her most memorable passengers: a teenage royal who insists on cranking up the stereo, a cigarette-smoking hairdresser on a gambling binge, and the self-important assistants who send her shopping for 27 bottles of hair remover. Behind the humor, however, is sharp social commentary that should leave every audience member questioning their car's fuel efficiency."
- Memphis Commercial Appeal
"The play explores conceptions and misconceptions of beauty; it describes the challenges and expansion of my own world-view and ingrained Western beliefs; and it is a story that provokes cultural dialogue and exchange. Ultimately, it is an exploration of the subjugation of women in society---theirs as well as ours, and my complicity in that role."-JAL
