GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Triplex Cinema announces a special 25th anniversary screening of the cult classic comedy horror film "Psycho Beach Party," directed by Robert Lee King, written by Charles Busch, and starring Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson, Amy Adams, and Charles Busch. 

 

After the screening, Lauren Ambrose and screenwriter/star Charles Busch will join Triplex board member Sam Handel for a discussion after the film. The screening is Saturday, Sept. 13 at 7:00 pm and tickets are available for purchase at www.thetriplex.com.

 

Released in 2000, Pyscho Beach Party tells the story of "Chicklet," a wannabe surf girl  with a split personality who ibecomes the primary suspect after a string of humorously gruesome murders in Malibu, California. Based on the off-Broadway play of the same name by Charles Busch, the story parodies 1950s psychodramas, 1960s beach movies, and 1980s slasher films. The prestigious Criterion Channel recently announced that Psycho Beach Party has joined its lineup. 

 

Charles Busch is an actor, screenwriter, playwright and drag queen, known for his appearance on stage in his own finely-developed camp style. In 2000 his play "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife" opened on Broadway to great critical acclaim and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play, running for almost 800 performances. 

 

Lauren Ambrose starred as Clair Fisher in the critically acclaimed HBO black comedy drama "Six Feet Under" for which she won two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Her film work includes "About Sunny," a 2011 film she produced and starred in and for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.  More recently she has starred in the Showtime drama thriller series "Yellowjackets." Ambrose's stage credits include "Buried Child," "Awake and Sing!," and "Exit the King." She portrayed the role of Eliza Doolittle in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of "My Fair Lady" in 2018 and was nominated for a Tony Award, a Grammy Award, as well as an Outer Critics Circle Award for her outstanding performance.

 

"I'm so psyched to celebrate this anniversary and the amazing Charles Busch at the Triplex," Lauren Ambrose said."Chicklet was such a totally insane and challenging role to play at the beginning of my career. It is such an honor and feather in my cap to have worked with Charles on this film and to have brought to life in the film the character he wrote and originated on stage. Excited to share it with our Berkshires community."