FRINGE AT SIDEARM!
November 13 -16, 2008
Sidearm Gallery was part of the first New
Orleans Fringe Festival hosting 5 shows jammed into four days.
FRINGE SHOWS AT SIDEARM:
Great
Hymn of Thanksgiving/ Conversation Storm
Around a dinner table, three actor / musicians sing, pray,
beat forks, deliver the news, and snap between scenes in mid-sentence in this
brutal but timely deconstruction of War-on-Terror-speak by
internationally-known avant-garde composer Rick Burkhardt. Torture, ticking
time bombs, faux-Middle-Eastern folk tales, broken clocks, unreliable waiters.
Creator: Rick Burkhardt
Performance
Group: The Nonsense Company
From: Madison, WI
Genre: Other
The Last Castrato
THE
LAST CASTRATO is the darkly comic, bittersweet tale of Joseph, who was born
without a penis, and his love affair with Elena, who was born with her skin
inside out. Elena, though, was blessed with a beautiful singing voice to
balance her deformity, while Joseph has no talent whatsoever to make up for his
missing member. "A penis," he muses, "in terms of artistic merit
is worth nothing."
"More than once, the audience finds itself unable to stop laughing."
~ Dallas Morning News
Creators: Written
by Andy Eninger, directed by Brad McEntire and featuring Jeff Swearingen
Performance
Group: Audacity Theatre Lab
From: Dallas
Genre: One-man show/ comedy/ drama
Web
Site: www.audacitytheatrelab.com
Sayings from the Life
and Writings of Junebug Jabbo Jones
John
O'Neal is inhabited by the mythical hero and storyteller Junebug who brings a
dazzling array of characters to stage. "There is a genuineness to O'Neal's
performance and to his play which assures us that this Southern folk play
sprang right from the very dirt of the dusty cotton fields he talks
about." –Tom Mason, Anniston (Alabama) Star
Creators: John
O'Neal with Ron Castine and Glenda Lindsay
Performance
Group: Junebug Productions, Inc.
From: New Orleans
Genre: Theater/Storytelling
Web
Site: www.junebugproductions.org
Struck/Break
Two
one-acts. STRUCK: After a stroke, a dynamic novelist confronts a longtime
friend in a smack-down of New York art world egos. BREAK: Late one night on
Eastern Long Island, an Englishman and the drug
addict who breaks into his home face their secret similarities. Neither is
what he seems.
Creator: J.
Stephen Brantley
Performance
Group: Emerging Artists Theatre
From: New York City
Genre: Drama
VIXIN
VIXIN
is a One Person Acapella Opera in twenty-four personalities. Based on a true
story. Incorporating masks, dance, vocal aerobatics, and amazing transformations
from one character to another. Seven years in the making, VIXIN explores
sexuality, gender and above all - love!
"Not drama for the intellectually lazy. The audience
may giggle in amusement or discomfort, but it cannot look away or disengage"
Marissa Greenberg, Albuquerque Journal
Creator: Kristen
Loree
Performer: Kristen Loree
From: Albuquerque
Genre: One Person Acapella Opera
Web
Site: www.solarts.org
Number's Up!
A One-Man Clown Catastrophe
by John Leo from Alaska.
From dreary, remote Alaska comes an ode to the glorious awkwardness of being. El Macho Del Norte and his delicate sidekick present their Amazing Show! Macho, however, has wandered off, leaving his scrawny assistant dreadfully alone. Part mystery, part vaudeville, ...Number’s Up! is sure to enthrall, provoke and buoy.
http://johnleo.net
