Adrian Paul at the theatre

SYNOPSIS: Peter Flannery is a writer for a children's quiz show. He has always struggled to get to where he is, mainly due to his childhood. Peter is a loner, as are many writers. His dream has been to write something important, something that would get him recognized. But instead, he finds himself stuck in a job where the gay host of the quiz show torments him at every turn.

The plays opens after the first night of sex with Jennifer, his girlfriend of five months. A night that is supposed to bring hope and promise of a rosy future.

A night that will change his life forever.

"Fans who come to see this can expect humor, sexuality, bravado, tension and fear. They can expect to find the unexpected and to be taken from one end of the human experience to the other. The beauty of a play is that you get to explore the play as you go. You don't get to do a moment again, like you do in movies or television. What happens on the night is what happens on the night. So after the show is over, you go back to the drawing board to explore where the characters are strong and where they are weak. Which leads to more rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing.

Quotation I learned that a character is never-ending. You can learn more and more as you do a character. Even during the short four-night run, "Peter" changed, as did the other characters in the play. Doing a play gives you the opportunity to really discover the layers of a character; that is, if you are willing to be open to discoveries along the way.

I also learned something that I had already come to the conclusion of. "Things just change." They do. You think you're traveling along the road in one direction and something unexpected happens that makes you go along another. The other thing was how important it is to do something different. It empowers you."

Extracts on "Things Just Change" from an Interview for PEACE in Spring 2005

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CLIP TWO

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I said a hip hop
a hippy hippy
a hip hip hop and don't you stop

Bouncers welcomes you to a vision of the '80s 'urban night life, to Stag Nights and Hen "do's," to drunken crying girls and gallons of booze. It's a celebration time, come on. It's always frustrating for the oldest swingers in town. Yes, all human life is inevitably here, in Midnight Circus. The beer is pricey, the music pulsating and the atmosphere is intoxicating.

Bouncers Group When Adrian found that acting was something he really wanted to do, he wanted to do it on stage. His first opportunity came in the form of Bouncers. An English play with a successful run in Los Angeles, it was moving to the off-Broadway Minetta Lane Theater. When he got the job he couldn't have been more thrilled. For Adrian, there was - and still is - nothing like the excitement of live theater. Every night, every line, and every audience is different. Every performance uncovers something new.

Immediately after Bouncers Adrian did his first feature film. Over the next few years, most of his work came in TV and film and he couldn't find time to get back to the stage. He still wanted to work on plays, both classical and modern, and found an outlet for this creativity in acting classes.

Quotation After the success of Highlander, he studied with an acting teacher named Larry Moss. Larry's passion for acting excites Adrian even to this day, and it was Larry who demanded...in his ever so charming way...that Adrian should find his way back to the theater. To that end, with a few other members from his Intensives Group, Adrian founded the L.A. based Actors Collaborative (formerly Actors in Process). Now three years later and with one play to their credit, Adrian hopes to be able to do much work on the stage.