Frigid Festival Previews

The Expatriates

Produced by The Beggar's Group

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Dorothy Parker first met in the cafes and salons of Paris on the cusp of  the Great Depression and in the rubble of World War I.  They developed intense relationships that at once nurtured and wrecked havoc on all involved.  The Expatriates is a four part cycle exploring the nature of artistic creation by focusing on the lives of this exceptional group.

The Expatriates, as presented in The Frigid Festival, represents the first movement in this larger piece.  It is a kaleidoscopic window into the world of one of the United States' most talented and most tormented literary luminaries, F. Scott Fitzgerald.  By eschewing a traditional narrative for a non-linear, image and idea driven framework and by employing a host of experimental techniques, The Beggars Group provides a lens through which to view not just the life of one historic genius, but the very nature of artistic creation with its many payoffs and  commensurate perils. The Expatriates explores the ways that the artist can create the world in which we live while simultaneously destroying their own in the process.

Harrison Williams, writer/co-director