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Gropman an unhappy camper

Adam Gropman was, for longer than anyone else, one of our columnists here at SHECKYmagazine.com, back when we had columnists.

We just got this note from him:

I am finally doing my one man show about upbringing with “hippie adjacent” parents and being sent to scary extreme summer camp at age 9 and hating it, here in LA- as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Show is called GET ME OUT OF HERE! and is this thurs and sun june 23rd & 26th.

We’ll miss it by just a week! We just read all about Gropman’s one-man show, and it sounds like a hoot.

…in a bid to “toughen him up”, Adam’s parents sent the nine year old Adam to the most rugged, stripped-down, back-to-nature camp in all of New England, for two months. Luckily, they also saved a shoe box full of the letters sent back and forth that summer between the somewhat precocious and extremely foul-mouthed Adam and the astoundingly zen, placid-toned Mr. & Mrs. Gropman, and this correspondence forms a powerful backbone to the show.

A short, 8-10 minute version of “Get Me Out of Here” (called “Unhappy Camper”) was presented a while back as part of a larger show and was a smashing success. If you’re in Los Angeles this week, check it out!