Aspiring screenwriter shoots for the big time

Peter Houghton’s The Pitch, a hilarious satire about selling a script, comes to Don Russell Performing Arts Centre, via Hollywood, on Saturday 9 August at 8pm.

The Pitch is set in the humble apartment of aspiring screenwriter Walter Weinermann.

He’s broke, his agent is pressuring him and the most important pitch of his career to a panel of big-shot Hollywood producers is fast approaching.

In this one-man blockbuster performance, author and actor Peter Houghton channels Clint Eastwood, Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Jet Li, Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta Jones and many others, taking the audience on a whirlwind journey through cities and continents, across decades and eras and in and out of genres, all without leaving Weinermann’s flat.

The Pitch won critical acclaim at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as two Green Room Awards for Best New Play and Best Male Independent Artist for Houghton.