Fringe is in the Air!
This August
4 to 14, the Minnesota Fringe presents five ASL-interpreted, 16
audio-described and two captioned shows at the 12th annual Fringe
Festival. Experience the largest non-juried theater festival in the
nation and third largest Fringe in North America.
To find even more information
about the 2005 Fringe, check out the printed program available August
3 or visit the official Fringe Web site www.fringefestival.org or
VSA arts www.vsarts.org which
are both Federal Section 508 compliant sites.
Red Eye Theater
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ASL:
8/13 - 5:30 pm. Out of the Story Box Productions. Have you ever masturbated
with a vacuum or washing machine? This solo-performance work combines
spoken word, visual art, music, and ontology to blow apart the walls
of sexuality.
Southern Theater
Lick!
ASL: 8/10 - 1:00 pm. The Mechanical
Division. A comedic dance show, self-proclaimed as the “sexiest
dance show the world has ever known,” promises to inject art
into your soul with a great big syringe of sexiness.
Loring
Playhouse
Spare Parts
ASL: 8/11
- 5:30 pm. Rhino Productions. A dead chef, an old guy in boxers,
a frantic reporter and a whole mess of spare parts. Murder mystery
and oatmeal cookies are served hot in this zany comedy.
Joe’s Garage
Thirst (Where Curtain Call
Meets Last Call)
ASL: 8/12 - 10:00 pm. Thirst
Theater. Six new short, interwoven scripts by local, award-winning
writers performed by Equity actors on a real out-door patio bar around
you. A twist on the popular Monday night event.
The Woman’s Club
Quantum Odyssey
ASL:
8/14 - 7 pm. AD: 8/14 - 7 pm. The Electric Telescope Theatre Co.
An original work based upon Homer’s “The Odyssey.” The
journey story of Telemachos’ search for his father, Odysseus.
Ancient Greek mythology warps space/time into an unwielding kaleidoscope
of theater.
Bryant-Lake Bowl
A Tempest…for Two
AD:
8/12 - 6 pm. Knighthorse Theatre Co. A breathtaking adaptation of
Shakespeare’s
Tempest, two actors bring to life this classic tale of treachery
and forgiveness using only Shakespeare’s words and your limitless
imagination. Great for all ages.
Intermedia Arts
Chicks in Space
AD: 8/4 - 7:00 pm.Theatre
Unbound. A valiant womanoid space team blasts off in search of brave
new worlds. Inflatable astronauts! Gold lame’ boots! “She
cannae take it Captain.”
The Woman’s Club
Dick da Tird
AD: 8/14 - 2:30 pm. Kevin
Kling.
The
Woman’s Club
Edna St Vincent Millay: The
Poet
Returns for a Reading. AD:
8/14 - 5:30 pm. Nancy Moore. “I died in 1950 - a poet with
a Greenwich Village reputation. My poetry is witty, passionate, sensual,
dramatic. My spirit returns to read once again: August, Minneapolis.
Do come.” -Edna
Red Eye Theater
Everyone’s a Winner
AD: 8/5 - 7:00 pm. Me and
Bill. In this dark sitcom pilot, an idealistic college graduate gets
a job co-managing the night shift of a suicide hotline with a Vicodin
addled former Lexus sales rep.
Brave New Workshop
Funny in the Head
AD: 8/9
- 8:30 pm. Actors Alliance of San Diego. Screw Xanax. Our prescription
won’t leave you constipated,
just a little Funny in the Head. See the 2004 Best of Fest winners
fresh from Schwar-zenegger’s California. Doctors orders.
Brave New Workshop
I’m Sorry and I’m
Sorry
AD: 8/9 - 7:00 pm. The Candidatos
Equal parts Marx Brothers, Coen Brothers and Cirque du Soleil, I’m
Sorry and I’m Sorry tells the tale of a seasick sailor, an
overzealous actor and one perfectly incompetent crime.
MCTC Whitney Studio
Is She Yours? And Other Questions:
An Adoption Story
AD: 8/6 - 5:30 pm.Lisa’s
Ink. A single woman’s journey in adopting a daughter from China-funny
stories and shocking insights about parenthood, race and society.
With onstage contributions and commentary from two Korean-American
adopters.
MCTC Whitney Studio
London After Midnight:Victorian
Tales of Crime and the Supernatural
AD: 8/6 - 4:00 pm. Hardcover
Theater. Vampires scoff at crucifixes! The queen babbes like a madwoman!
Grave robbers take out small business loans! Pulp fiction mingles
with history in this lurid 19th Century soap opera.
Intermedia Arts
The Candy Ass Club
AD: 8/7
- 4:00 pm. The Early Stage. Last-picked in gym class? Did “Tiger
Beat” pictures of
David Cassidy arouse adolescent desires? Early fascinations with
Cher? Surprise-You’re a Candy Ass! A nostalgic trip through
gay childhood.
Bryant - Lake Bowl
The Jury
AD: 8/12 - 4:00 pm. Gimme
a Break Productions. A raucous bunch of jurors tangle about everything
BUT the case, in this lively and provocative musical.
Loring Playhouse
The Scrimshaw Show
AD: 8/12
- 11:30pm. The Scrimshaw Brothers. A late night cabaret cocktail
mixing “smart,
knowing comedy” (City
Pages), live music, different guests every night, and an intimate,
alcohol-fueled improv structure called The Barside Chat.
MCTC Whitney Studio
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
AD:
8/6 - 2:30 pm. Old Gem Theater. Join the wild Rock n’ Roll
Troll as he tries to gobble up three tricky billy goats in this wacky
version of the Norwegian classic. Enchanting for all ages.
Lake Harriet United Methodist
Church
Watch Our Language!
AD: 8/11
- 7:00 pm. The Clowntime Players. Saturday Night Live meets Funk
and Wagnall’s Dictionary! Monty
Python meets Grammar Rock! It’s original songs and sketches
about our weird and wonderful English language.
Interact Theater
What’s
an Indian Woman To Do?
AD: 8/6 - 7:00 pm. Raving
Native Productions. Belle, an attractive Ojibwe, plots against Katrina,
a blue-eyed blond with an Indian fetish. It’s a nasty lesson
for white girls trying to act more Indian than the Indians.
Mixed Blood Theater
Blogologue
Captioned: 8/11
- 8:30pm. Hamel Road Theater Project. An on stage, Google driven,
web browsing, sketch comedy, multi-media experience! Born from the
best and worst online blogs, web sites, e-mails, bulletin boards,
videos, surfing and SPAM!
Intermedia Arts
Boob Toob
Captioned: 8/12 - 1:00 pm.
Claire Simonson. Technochick hijacks the gizmocracy, running cheerfully
amok through the mass media, exposing boobs, hot-wiring toobs, and
lucky you-uncovering pure evil!
Illusion Theater
For the Rest of My Life
(Tentative) AD: 8/10 - 10:00
pm. Illusion Theater. A one man show about his life, from a childhood
in Hawaii, to a career in the NFL, to coming out, to fatherhood.
Told in stories and song.
Illusion Theater
Charlie Bethel’s Gilgamesh
(Tentative)
AD: 8/10 - 8:30 pm. Illusion Theater. Gods and people. Life and
death. Sex and violence. The big antitheticals of the human experience
come together in this tale from ancient Meso-potamia.
Illusion Theater
Kung Fu Hamlet
(Tentative)
AD: 8/10 - 5:30 pm. No Refunds Theatre Co. Kung Fu Hamlet; what
more do you need to know?
