Waiting for Lipchitz at Chateau Marmont — Aris Janigian

Set in two iconic locales -- Hollywood's legendary Chateau Marmont and luxurious Fresno's Forestiere's Underground Garden -- Waiting for Lipchitz at Chateau Marmont is a bold and colorful critique of the California Dream through the prospective of a once-upon-a-time successful screenwriter and opulent wealth that taunts him. Caught between John O'Brien's Better and, perhaps, a Christopher Guest adaptation of Waiting for Godot, Janigian's Lipchitz is a new take on the absent protagonist and what's inevitably illuminated by its void.