L.A. Noir is not in the reviewing business, but we just thought we’d pass along to Hollywood noir connoisseurs the interactive theater piece called “Accomplice: Hollywood.”
The L.A. sibling of New York’s “Accomplice: The Village,” the show takes small groups of theatergoers who meet up in a public space in Hollywood, are given clues and vague directions, and then sent on their way to obtain ransom money.
The goal: save a kidnapped movie actress, star of a project called “Good Cop, Dead Cop.”
“Accomplice” has participants scurrying across a sprawling arc of Hollywood Boulevard to meet a number of familiar characters. There's a celebrity-gossip blogger, an embittered screenwriter, a callous producer and a host of others.
All are figures on sidewalks or in bars whose involvement in the play is never really certain --until they open their mouths and start talking to us.
This is not a passive audience experience, but one in which the theatergoer must pay attention and take part in the action.
Neil Patrick Harris and writers Tom Salamon and Betsy produce the show.
