FRINGE FEST 2009 AT SIDEARM November 11-15
Here's the lineup at Sidearm for the second annual Fringe Festival. There are gazillions of shows going on all over town. To check out the entire schedule, visit www.nofringe.org
Homage
Performing Group: FREEFALL
From: New York City
Genre: Dance-Theater
Darkly comic, extravagantly physical, rumination on the themes of love, war and justice. "The New York-based troupe follows in the absurdist footsteps of Beckett and Weill by employing a menacing vaudevillian style…urgent in a rambunctious-sad way. Performers are lovely and engaging even as frightening truths brew underneath." —Chicago Tribune. All ages.
Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/11 9:00 pm, 11/12 7:00 pm, 11/13 7:00 pm
Five Monologues in Search of a Play
Performing Group: Adam Falik
From: New Orleans
Genre: Drama
Five characters testify their part in a conspiracy to perform a play in which a woman carries a human head down a flight of stairs. Five separate monologues conjoin into a panoramic narrative in which the workings of artistic ambition, politics, sexual blackmail, and inner-city survival are woven.
Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/12 9:00 pm, 11/14 5:00 pm, 11/15 9:00 pm
The Danger Angels
Performing Group: Moose Jackson
Performing Group City: New Orleans
Genre: Rock cabaret
Poet Rev. Moose Jackson presents the tale of a down-and-out punk who finds rock and roll salvation on the dark carnival streets of New Orleans. A home-brewed rock cabaret.
Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/11 7:00 pm, 11/14 9:00 pm, 11/15 5:00 pm
He/She & Me: A Love Story
Performing Group: The Academy Theatre Featuring Sharon Mathis
From: Avondale Estates, Georgia
When her soul mate Sam becomes Sheila, Pat asks "Does his soul live in his penis? Is there ever a good day to leave your marriage?" Pat tries tap dancing, Buddhism, and shopping to find out. Audiences call this one woman drama/comedy "marvelous" and "essential".
Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/13 11:00 pm, 11/14 7:00 pm, 11/15 3:00 pm
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
