STAR WARS TRILOGY IN 30 MINUTES

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY PATRICK T. GORMAN

One Week Only - Garry Marshall Theatre - May 25-29th - See Link Below

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One Week Only - Garry Marshall Theatre - May 25-29th - See Link Below 〰️

Patrick T. Gorman’s Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes is the critically-acclaimed, fan-beloved comedy play that reduces the original Star Wars Trilogy to fast-paced madcap fun. Playing to packed audiences everywhere from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to a year-long run in Los Angeles to many Star Wars Celebrations, Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes has been called “unfailingly imaginative” by Variety and George Lucas himself has called the play “extremely funny!”

Created in 1995 by students at George Lucas’s alma mater of USC, the play has been performed all over the world. According to the Los Angeles Times, the play “recalls the glory days of Second City, if not the earlier, funny episodes of Saturday Night Live”. After workshopping the play at USC, Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996, where it has gone back repeatedly, playing to packed houses every year it’s gone.

Since Star Wars Celebration II, the show has been presented at many Star Wars Celebrations, where thrilled audiences often waited hours in line and the production added shows due to demand. The show has been performed around the world, including a performance at Comic-Con, a successful yearlong run in Los Angeles at the Coronet Theatre (now Largo), and as one of the shows for the opening of the French-American Center in Paris.

The play has even been performed for George Lucas, Frank Oz, and JJ Abrams.

George Lucas - the visionary creator of Star Wars - called the production “extremely funny” and raved, “I was quite impressed that they were able to find a way to make Star Wars faster and more intense.”

Over the years, the production has received stellar reviews from Variety, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Sunday London Times, and many others, and has been featured on CNN, ABC’s Nightline, BBC, and Fox.

In 2012, the play was expanded at the request of George Lucas to tackle the original trilogy and the prequels to become the Star Wars Saga in 60 Minutes. The new production was rabidly welcomed for its world premiere as part of Celebration VI in Orlando, performing for four days to audiences of over 2,000 people per show.

They are now currently working on the Star Wars Saga in 90 Minutes, taking on the entire universe of Star Wars at hyperspace speeds.

Over twenty-five years on, Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes continues to thrill and delight audiences, getting laughs at hyperspeed – all while saving the universe with wifflesabers.