Sherry Glaser to Perform Acclaimed Solo Show "Taking the High Road: Comic Confessions from Behind the Cannabis Curtain" at Tucson Fringe Theater Festival (1/16-17)

Tucson, AZ, January 11, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Show: "Taking the High Road—Comic Confessions from Behind the Cannabis Curtain"

Performance Artist/Activist: Sherry Glaser

Event: Tucson Fringe Festival
Sat., Jan. 16 at 1pm & 5:30pm
Sun., Jan. 17 at 3pm

Venue: Club Congress (Hotel Congress)
311 E. Congress Street
Tucson, AZ 85701

Tickets: Available for pick-up at the box office or online via the Tucson Fringe Festival website.

(Appropriate for ages 18+)

"Sherry Glaser's ability to breathe life into her characters allowed the audience to journey with her as she morphed from person to person." -Cannabis Now Magazine

When Life gives you Feds busting down your door, arresting you and your family, seizing your assets - all because of an herbal plant—if your name is Sherry Glaser, you will make Comedy.

Performance Artist/Activist Sherry Glaser is set to perform her acclaimed solo show "Taking the High Road: Comic Confessions from behind the Cannabis Curtain" with the Tucson Fringe Festival on Sat., Jan. 16 and Sunday, Jan. 17. The show had its New York debut in 2015, and continues to be performed in Mendocino, California - Glaser's "Emerald Triangle" home base - and at various theater festivals throughout the U.S.

Glaser is best known for her award-winning "Family Secrets," which still holds the title of the Longest-Running One-Woman Show in Off-Broadway History. In November 2015, Glaser’s “Oh My Goddess: A Comedy of Biblical Proportions” took the Best Avant-Garde Performance Award at New York’s United Solo Festival.

Act One of “Taking the High Road” features such well-meaning characters as Rose Fisher, an 80-year old Jewish lady who convinces a doctor to write a prescription for medical marijuana for her cancer-ridden husband and herself (“For my PMS…Post Menopausal Syndrome…It’s forever!”). Rose embarks on a bittersweet journey from Brooklyn to a New Jersey dispensary (“I’ll have the vanilla kush with sprinkles”), and ends up on a New York subway in handcuffs after a cop spots her pot.

In the Second Act, Glaser “comes out” as herself with her own truths about her experiences as a “potwife” who faced multiple challenges, not the least of which was the Spring 2014 multi-agency raid, targeting Glaser who is one of the founders of the Mendocino pot co-op, Love In It.

“Act Two is about the Power of Catharsis,” says Glaser. “I deal directly with the raid, and other terrible disasters like my Gay Divorce being final three days after the Supreme Court decided to legalize Gay Marriage in all 50 states. I’ve decided to take the ‘High Road’ - which to me means choosing a path that does no harm to yourself or anyone else.”

Glaser adds that each of her characters has a definite, yet surprising, relationship to marijuana “so the show can appeal not only to hipsters, but also patients facing life threatening diseases, and anyone struggling with mental health in a world gone mad.”

As a dedicated activist, Glaser is no stranger to controversy. Over the years, her Breasts Not Bombs Peace Movement has caused a stir due to chest-baring demonstrations by women who proclaim that “war not boobs is indecent.”

So will there be nudity in this show?

“I’m only baring my soul in this one,” says Glaser with a laugh.

For more info, photos and video:
Media Kit: http://takingthehighroadmediakit.blogspot.com
Sherry Glaser Website: http://www.sherryglaser.net
Twitter: @sherryglaser
YouTube: Taking the High Road Clip: Rose Fisher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImAG2S3KawY
Publicist: Marlan Warren, Roadmap Communications
Contact: memoircity@gmail.com