3 WAY LOVVE COMING TO A VIRTUAL THEATER BROADCAST IN FRONT OF YOU!

Hollywood  Fringe…Get virtual with Lovvespear

Maatology Productions returns to Fringe debuting a modernized Shakespearean love tragedy in the virtual production, '3 Way Lovve.'

LOS ANGELES/ST. LOUIS/ATLANTA –When

you mix a troubled,street painter with strokes

of fame and a palette of unstable relationships

along the way, you have painted the perfect

imagery for the virtual-play, for Hollywood

Fringers to view.

3 Way Lovve is about to make its world premiere produced by

Maatology Productions and performing in July virtually for On the

Virtual Fringe.

3 Way Lovve is an updated Shakespearean tragedy with its lead

character, Willie Kenwood aka Lovvespear, a talented street painter

who is discovered by an art tycoon, Guy Kenwood, who adopts him in

his late teens and molds him into a famous graphic artist as well as

his secret paramour. Throughout his artistic journey, Willie develops a

relationship with his female muse, Robyn, who helps him early on in

his art career by giving him solace to paint at her Mafia-ran

coffeeshop which she manages. Willie also meets and marries his

college professor, Shareen, whose age differences and challenges of

child bearing become the thrust of their relationship woes.

Told from a flash forward-to-flashback-to-present perspective, 3 Way

Lovve is loosely based on the life of the late, renowned painter,

Basquiat and his relationship with a then unknown upcoming singer,

Madonna and his mentorship with pop art icon Andy Warhol—it also

has a bit of Shakespearan dialogue from the lead character to give it

“an Othellowean flavor” along with a graphics storyboard with a

musical soundtrack.

This production also will make Maatology Productions return to the

Hollywood Fringe Festival (it made its debut in 2018 with the

immersive comedy Snap Honey) participating in its Stay At Home

Project during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We thought it was time to return to Fringe especially after our first

experience which was very challenging with the time constraints of

setting up a play,” said Marcus Ma'at Atkins, the show's co-creator

and co-writer. “Now that everything is virtual, its much easier to put on

a show, but the process has been part of our pre-production regimen

for rehearsing actors and actresses since producing [our show]'Snap

Honey'and bringing it to The Complex in Los Angeles in 2016.”

3 Way Lovve has been a labor of love since 2003 when Atkins helped to write the first draft of the stageplay with his former journalist colleague and current Los Angeles publicist, Keith Underwood.

“It (3 Way Lovve) never had the chance to be seen on stage over the years, just drafts and a few failed attempts to rehearse with a cast,” Atkins said. “It slowly became part of an abandoned idea collecting dust until I decided to stage it this year before the pandemic hit in March.”

Helping him resurrect 3 Way Lovve is his production company team member, Andrea Jacobs--a retired Army veteran, UCLA graduate and former talent agent in the Los Angeles area--who's been working with Maatology Productions since 2016.

Jacobs, who directed 3 Way Lovve and helped revise the stageplay, said, “Although I have been in front of the camera several times, my passion lies behind it. The experience of directing [3 Way Lovve] has been very rewarding.”

She also said she was ready for the challenge of directing 3 Way Lovve.

“It has made me look at my own past and brought it to life. It's going to be an eye-opener for many viewers as it can be related to on so many levels with its complex set of characters.”

3 Way Lovve

Co-Created and Co-Written by Marcus Ma’at Atkins and Keith Underwood

Co-written and Directed by Andrea Jacobs

Produced by Maatology Productions

DATES AND TIMES: (six shows)

Thursday, July 23 6 p.m. PT/8pm CT/9pm ET (*preview)

Friday, July 24 3 p.m. & 6 p.m. PT/5pm & 8pm CT/6pm & 9pm ET)

Saturday, July 25 3p.m. & 6p.m. PT/5pm & 8pm CT/6pm &9pm ET)

Sunday, July 26 3p.m. PT/5pm CT/6pm ET

LOCATION:

On The Virtual Fringe  Facebook Live 

TICKET PRICES:

General Admission: $5

$4 for  Fringe  community

$2.50 for  Fringe  participants (with code “FRINGESNAPPERS”)

Preview show is Pay-What-You-Can

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Marcus Ma’at Atkins

(314) 243-9728

Snaphoney2011@gmail.com