GONZO: A Brutal Chrysalis An original play by Paul Addis Starring- James R. Cartee as Hunter S. Thompson GONZO is an over-the-top evocation of the iconic inventor of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson in all his paranoid pill-popping, booze-swilling, gun-toting, phantasmagorical-prose-spewing glory! Gonzo takes us through the misadventures of Thompson's early career, dropping us off before his famed takedowns of the war on drugs in Las Vegas, the 72 presidential campaign, his sojourn with the Hell's Angels, his beating at the 68 Democratic Convention in Chicago, his quixotic run for sheriff in Aspen Colorado- among others.