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- An Evening With Olaf
- Angry Jellow Bubbles
Anything Show
Avalanche
Beatrice And Virgil In Paradise
Benefit Of Doubt
Breton's Dream
Chain Reactions
Chasing Rabbits
Condensed Works Of Frank Cullen
Counting The Ways (A Vaudeville)
Crazy Lady
Devil, Doctor Faustus And …
Disengaged
Don't Tap On The Glass
Double Counterpoint
Dr. Constance Cumming …
First Woman Plural
Floating Bone
From Shit Grows The Roses
Gretl
Happy Endings Are Overrated
Hold Me!
Imbecillus
It Came From Beneath The Kilt!
Jack The Ripper Slept Here …
Kiwi Standup Experience
Male Diva
Ma-Ma-Mamalia
My Penis In And Out Of Trouble
Myth Of Sisyphus
Neo Surrealists
Number 2
Opium
Regular Show
Run Jenny
Seeds Of Longing…
Slam, Bam, Thank You Ma'am
Sole Searching
State Of The Empire Address
Stew!
Ten
That Dorothy Parker
Theatre/Plague
Thicker Than Water
Tim's Magic Lantern Show
Tragical History Of Dr. Faustus
Trailer Trash Tabloid!
Treachery
Withering Glances
Woven
Zewski's Folly
An Evening With Olaf
By Paul DelBene; IMAFOOL productions, Physical
Comedy; For people who just started breathing to almost dead; Possibility
of humorous content or performer injury
Olaf is known in many circles, and squares, as the Clown Prince of
Switzerland. You never really know what will happen, because Olaf doesn¹t
really know either. Olaf, as always, is just back from a recent tour of
Europe performing before many, many crowned and crowded heads in Europe.
He has been trained by traveling European comic nomads in circus and vaudeville
skills. But you know what THEY say; "Reality is the leading cause of
stress amongst those in touch with it." So get ready to lose touch,
and
experience Olaf. Reality with a twist! www.imafool.com for the low down
on Olaf the Clown Prince.
Angry Jellow Bubbles-The Revenge
Eva Minemar-Conceiver/Director; Angry Bubble Productions;
New York;
Play-Drama/Comedy with Improv; Ages 15 & up could enjoy it;Straight
from a sold-out run in New York, comes 8 incredible women who bare everything.
Hysterically funny, bittersweet, and heartbreaking true-life stories about
beauty told through improv, song, dance and much more. "Incredible",
says FringeNYCPropaganda, "Terrific ensemble performance that is intelligent,funny,
and thought provoking", Dan Bacalzo In Theatre Magazine, "If "Bubbles"
is any indication of things to come from Eva Minemar we should be lining
up to buy tickets" Tim Ranke- New York Hangover. Only five performances
and it will be gone forever, come define beauty for yourself before its
too late.
The Anything Show
By Abby Schachner; Chicago, Solo/ Improv/ Sketch/
Performance Art;Not For Children under 16 (unless you're very liberal)
"Fearless, wonderfully strange and very dangerous"-The Chicago
Reader. It's comedy with a soul---raw, poignant and a lot of figurative
GUTS. Schachner performs songs, "performance pieces", characters,
and monologues uniquely her own, but reminiscent of the late greats. Chicago
critics call her, "a formidable talent", "Schachner's appearances
illustrate the sheer fecundity of her mind".
"I'm a fan"-Kelly Leonard, Producer of the Second City.
Avalanche
By MIGUEL ANGEL BALOA G.; PROYECTO ARTÍSTICO FUSIÓN, REPÚBLICA
BOLIVARIANA DE VENEZUELA, Multi-media
This is a research looking forward with the aim and purpose of
defining a new dogma trough the human personality. The real and oneiric
idea become present in each element. There, A nostalgic audience behold
ideas with exquisite emptiness
Beatrice and Virgil in Paradise
By Julie Novak; The Medusa Lovely Theatre Co.,
San Francisco, Absurdist-Drama; Children over 13 could enjoy it; Mature
content.
Men in beauty eat their eyes in strange chambers unknown while little girls
dragonfly for those tranquils fool told crawling leaf may find itself strung
out upon the grass but if for one still believe the sun has not turned black.
I could have eaten merrily the moon periling sky but that I have quenched
myself I am barren and dry. Oh, cataclysmic water fall with sunken eyes
that mew if I was your kitten…
The Benefit of Doubt
Professor Zabulous; Holliston, Massachusetts, Clowning;
Children over the age of 5 could enjoy it.
A show that will make you laugh -- and make you think. In the tradition
of
Bill Irwin, Geoff Hoyle and Avner the Eccentric comes the newest show from
the producer of the Best of the Fringe winner "Caribou Tribute."
In fifty
minutes of thoughtful zaniness, Professor Zabulous demonstrates that reality
isn't always what it seems. A guaranteed good time, but . . . no running,
no horseplay! http://mypage.goplay/Professor_Zabulous/
Breton's Dream
The Center for Imaginary solutions, San Francisco,
Dream Play; Naught for children; Mature Content, Coarse Language, Nudity,
Smoking, and a couple of Gunshots
See the inner world of Andre Breton, agent provocateur extraordinaire. Breton's
dream is a rush, scream, nocturnal parade of the surreal. Journey with an
uncommon cast of corpses to the Point of Supreme, the origin of creative
impulse and other such tadpoles of the imagination. The Center for Imaginary
Solutions releases itself of full responsibility for any shock, pleasure,
terror or indifference that may result from the experience of this performance.
Chain Reactions
By Trevor Allen; Black Box Theatre Company, San
Francisco. Play/Multimedia/Other;Appropriate for Children over 12. Warning:
Experimental Theatre still exists in S.F.
What do Einstein, a bachelor with an empty fishbowl, a pregnant physicist
and a cat named Schroedinger have in common? Everything, of course. It's
all interconnected in this three part theatrical fugue for four voices.
A constellation of characters are brought to life under the stars of
the planetarium. Experience an entire evening's rotation including a dream
and a love affair, all in under an hour. Award winning playwright and "Best
of the Fringe" recipient returns with his new piece. Two nights only,
space is limited so don't miss it.
Chasing Rabbits
By MARK FLETCHER; SPRINGFIELD PRODUCTIONS, MELBOURNE,
AUSTRALIA, Play-Drama Solo Performance, Not for children UNDER 14 YRS
Chasing Rabbits is a fast paced thriller set in a police interrogation room.
NICK WALSH HAS HAD A HELL OF A NIGHT - SPEED, DANGER, SHADOWY FIGURE, EXPLOSIONS…AN
INTRIGUING TALE OF DARK FORCES AND HIDDEN TRUTHS IN A POWERFUL AND POTENT
ONE-MAN PLAY.
The Condensed Works of Frank Cullen
By Chavira, Allemann, & Follmann-Chavira; Thunderbird
Theatre Company, San Francisco, Play-Comedy; Children over 13 could enjoy
it; Mature content and strobe effects.
In the late 1940's, Frank Cullen was a writer of pulp fiction. His
stories warned Americans about the menaces of beatniks,Communists, nymphomania,
UFO's, and the ever dreaded, Mambo music. Today the Thunderbird Theatre
Company looks back at the some of the works of this forgotten American hero
and asks you, "Frank Cullen, forgotten literary genius or just another
gin-soaked hack?"
Counting The Ways
Edward Albee; San Francisco, Play-Comedy, Over
16; Mature Content
How do I love thee? Find out as "She" and "He" begin
COUNTING THE WAYS
during this absurdist look at love, relationships, flowers, creme brulee,
the media and bedroom furniture in Edward Albee's amusing musing on the
things we do for love. Directed by Mike Ward and featuring Danielle Thys
& Leo Lawhorn.
Crazy Lady
By Nancy Irene Kelly; San Francisco, Solo performance,
Children over 15 only; Mature content, Coarse language
A host of off-kilter characters populates this incisive, witty and often
moving monologue by local favorite Nancy Irene Kelly. A certifiably
insane southern belle, a post-modern theory obsessed boyfriend, a
heart-eating relationship-destroying parasite, and a breast-sucking bra
saleslady convene in this wacky, gross and hilarious journey through
coming of age female and queer in the Reagan years. For everyone who bleeds
on a monthly basis and the people who love them.
Cultural Refugee
By Wednesday Kennedy; Wharf Rat Productions (Producing
Agent), Sydney, Australia, Multi-media/Performance Art; Not for children;
Mature content; Coarse Language
"When Alice from Down Under falls into the rabbit hole of the American
Dream..." Australian writer/performer Wednesday Kennedy creates a unique
perspective on Western Culture with her edgy and darkly witty observation.
Based on her experiences during her first few months in the United States,
she asks us to look at ourselves through the eyes of an outsider. The view
is not always pretty and definitely not politically correct. The Cultural
Refugee show certainly lives up to the Sydney Morning Herald's review of
Wednesday's performances... "She isn't afraid to say the unsayable."Bernard
Zuel. www.renewal.org/wednesdaykennedy.au
The Devil, Doctor Faustus, and Raymond the King of Hungary
Comedic adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus"
by Karl Hanover; Random Acts Theatre Company, San Francisco, Play-Comedy;
Not for children; Beware the Ides of March.
'Not satisfied with selling his own soul to the Devil in exchange for wealth,
power and three cases of imported Welsh mutton; the good Doctor Faustus
barters away the soul of Wagner his faithful manservant also. Thus begins
one servingman's desperate struggle for his immortal soul; a pitched battle
with the Prince of Darkness himself, to escape everlasting damnation and
thereby avoid spending the rest of eternity toasting his marshmallows in
the sulphurous depths.' randomactstheatre.homestead.com
Disengaged
By Lee Barton; San Francisco, Play-Comedy, Children
over 16 could enjoy it. Any adult over 178 will despise it; Bring a parka.
In suburban Philadelphia, rampant with the marriage flu, Disengaged follows
the completely fabricated story of a man who inherits his "dead before
death" aunt's bridal salon, debt-bloated and in the family loins since
1787. Hailed by post-post-mortem Moliere as a "quenching impeachment
of Darwin's mating leftovers", Disengaged barges into truth proving
that there's no better place to play emotional bumper cars than inside the
engagement ring. barmoose@earthlink.net
Don't Tap On the Glass
The Original Action Pack, Oakland, Improv Comedy, Children
over 12 could enjoy it; Too much laughter can hurt.
Returning to San Francisco after playing to standing-room-only crowds in
Marin and Petaluma and having packed the house at Venue 9, and broken cameras
at BTV, The Original Action Pack serves up a steaming chunk of spontaneous
comedy, based on suggestions from the audience, sprouting fully-formed from
warped imagination. As one fan said, "If you cracked a nut, mixed it
with sugar, espresso beans, animal crackers, and an oversized sandwich,
put it in a blender and served it over ice, you would have The O.A.P. in
a glass!" Beware The Original Action Pack, beware… www.originalactionpack.com
Double Counterpoint
Carla Hatley; First Draft, San Francisco, Play
- Drama; Children over 10 could enjoy it.
A classic noir style murder mystery set in the shadows of San Francisco.
Trudy's dead, now she could catch up on her sleep. Harper has a heart of
gold with a bank account to match. Treating men badly isn't Lorraine's hobby
it's her profession. Frank always gets the story, but never the girl. "Have
you ever wanted something so bad, you'd kill for it?" Sometimes…relationships
can be murder! http://www.williamhall.net/Personal/doublecounterpoint.html
Dr. Constance Cumming Wants to Help You Get Laid
By Christina Starr; Theatre Crisp, Canada, Comedy/solo
performance, Children over 16 could enjoy it; Mature content
Do you wish getting laid was as easy as burning your toast in the morning?
Do you wish you could come as loud and as long as the smoke alarm? Dr.
Cumming can tell you how! Tips for everyone! Whatever sex! Whatever
preference! Don't miss this arousing lecture!
"Done with an eye for the fine details of life in the quickie lane."
-Vancouver Sun. 1999 Vancouver Fringe Festival sold out show.
First Woman Plural!
By Marie Gleason; Gleasonworks; Toronto,Canada,Comedy/Drama;
14 and up; Gunshot,Mature content
There's a million people living inside of me - and I've got to let them
out! From the clownishly comedic to the real life tragic, meet 8 different
woman, and each with their own human story to tell. "TORONTO'S MARIE
GLEASON IS A DELIGHT!" The Herald Chronicle; "WITH UNBOUNDED EXPRESSIVENESS,
GLEASON IS ADEPT AT CREATING DISTINCT AND VARIED INDIVIDUALS - A GREAT SHOW!"
Lesley Clarke, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Floating Bone THIS
SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELED
By Kat Stoutenborough & Sean Murphy; Walk
The Plank, Inc. & Cat's Cradle Productions; New York City; Solo Performance;
Children over 16; Mature Content
THE FLOATING BONE is a poetic skirmish between creativity, sex, and identity.
The alternating currents of rich text, spare physical expression and quirky
humor drive this collage beyond the expected boundaries of solo performance.
Stoutenborough's imagery is poetic, effective and startling" (Off-Off
Broadway Review). Bay Area composer, sound designer and improvisational
musician, Sean Murphy provides the soundscape. THE FLOATING BONE addresses
all of the various bones that float. "Outstanding!" (nytheatre.com)
From Shit Grows the Roses
Anna Budd; Oakland; Solo performance; Children
over 15 could enjoy it. Coarse language.
A nice girl moves to the Tenderloin to become s social worker, goes out
for a can of mace and comes home with a sword. An indecisive mugger, a sea
of pigeons, a dead fetus in a priest's hands, and unavailable women populate
Agatha's world as she tries to help the violent teen Maxine. Every effort
only makes things worse, forcing Agatha to face what it means to really
lose control. Directed by: Jenny Schaffer
Gretl
By Michi Broman; Red Meat Productions;Seattle;
Multi-media, solo performance ;Children over 14 could enjoy it.
Gretl comes to San Francisco after a successful run at last year's Seattle
Fringe Festival. Combining audio, video, dance, and monologue, Gretl is
a raucous hour of fringe theater, exploring a woman's self-worth, measured
by the man she is with at any given moment. "Not all performers have
that something that makes people want to watch them. Call it truth. Call
it talent. Broman's got it". --Seattle P-I http://www.billyfez.com/gretl
Happy Endings Are Overrated
Timothy Ereneta; Oakland; Solo Performance; Children
over 10 could enjoy it.
Snow White knew him. Sleeping Beauty knew him. Cinderella, she knew him
too. But don't think you know him. Forget everything you've ever seen in
the movies, or read in the books. Come hear the stories behind the stories,
from
the Prince who appeared in them all.
Hold Me!
By Jules Feiffer; Theatre-at-Large; Novato, CA;
Play-Comedy
Got Angst?! Theatre-at-Large's production of Hold Me! transforms Jules
Feiffer's brilliant satirical revue into an edgy and darkly comic group
therapy session that uncovers layer after layer of adultery and deceit.
Comments on previous productions by Theatre-at-Large: "I glanced around
to
make sure no one was looking at me - I was laughing that loudly." -
Rick
Polito, Marin IJ; "One of the sweetest surprises of the season"
- Chrisanne
Beckner, Commuter Times.
Imbecillus: a lunatic quest
Roblin Gray Davis; Theatre Ridiculous; Juneau,
AK;Clowning; Children over 12 could enjoy it; Mature content, Coarse Language
From the creator of Mumble in Numbskull: an existential clown show, the
hit 1999 SF Best of the Fringe show, more Random Existential Clowning!!!
Dead clowns drifting in a world of chaotic rhythm, musicality and funny
things. Heart-wrenching friendship, awe-inspiring courage and the spirit
of resistance guide these fools to the end of their search for the meaning
of pain and sweetness.
It Came from Beneath the Kilt!!!
Peter Budinger & DC Scarpelli; Doctor Emile's
Theatre Tremendo with Aggro Theatre; San Francisco; Play-Comedy ; Not for
children; Mature Content, Gunshot, Coarse Language, Strobe, May contain
ridiculous accents.
Do you dare peek under the plaid, bairns? If you do, be prepared to see
a huge… SHOW, full of thrills, chills and big laughs! Watch six despicable
people meet their grisly fates in the fetid keep of a Scottish castle. One
wants love, one wants fame, one wants human tongues…. But they'll each
pay dearly for their desires when punishment spurts forth hard and fast...
FROM BENEATH THE KILT!!!! www.tremendo.home.att.net
Jack The Ripper Slept Here: An Underground Comedy
Theatre Au Naturel; San Francisco; Play-Comedy;
Children over 14 could enjoy it.
One woman discovers that the pulse of a city runs deep beneath the streets
when she meets a man who knows the secrets of every rat and alligator that
haunts the trans-continental sewer system. Fringe favorites, Theatre Au
Naturel resurface in San Francisco with this new underground comedy.
The Bay Guardian has described Fringe sell-outs, Theatre Au Naturel as "Hilarious,
insane and strongly recommended."
"A thoroughly enjoyable romp! Superb acting by Eve Smyth and Andy Peterson!"
- Seattle P-I "Best Comedy of the Seattle Fringe Festival" - MSN
CitySearch
The Kiwi Stand Up Experience
By Mike Loder & Mark Scott; Laugh Inc.; New
Zealand; Stand up Comedy; Mature content & Language
Sharp, original standup from New Zealand. "Highest laughs per minute
tally of anything at this years Fringe" Weekend Express. "This
Dynamic Duo Rocks" Victoria News. Sold out in a three month tour of
Canada last year with headlines like "Kiwi crooners kill". Touring
20 festivals in 6 countries in 2000. For the first time in the U.S. "Riotious
funny" Edmonton Sun.
"Powerful one liners and belly laughs. Casual flair. Funny and friendly"
Adelaide Advertiser. "Halarious". Melbourne Age.
http://mikeloder.tripod.com
The Male Diva
By Kirk White; Ella R. Lowe Ltd.; San Francisco;
Solo Performance; Children over 14could enjoy it; Mature content.
A play about a man who can't get close to four women. So he dresses up like
them to get into their minds and their thoughts about him. Is he really
"in" with the ladies or not? Kirk White premiers this fascinating
solo work coming off a well received production of "Stranger of Woodstock"
in the Seattle Fringe Festival.
Ma-Ma-Mamalia
by Dawn McMahan; Barely Human DanceTheatre; San
Francisco; Dance ; Children over 10 could enjoy it
Barely Human Dancetheatre will take you on a trek through the forest in
Golden Gate Park, where dancers, musicians and homeless people will dance
with the shadows. The wind, the trees and the dirt conspire to expose another
reality at sunset.
My Penis - - In and Out of Trouble
By Antonio Sacre; Los Angeles; Solo Performance;
Not for children; Mature content, coarse language
A humorous, subversive, and titillating look at power, sexuality, and
innocence. Come and be molested. Winner, Best in Fringe Festival Award for
Solo Performance, New York City International Fringe Theater Festival, 1999.
"CRITICS CHOICE - daring, gripping and unsettling" Chicago Reader
"Devastating, a real breakthrough." - Chicago Tribune
"Remarkable, gripping drama." - Village Voice
"Storytellers this good are hard to come by." Backstage
Sacre's Brown and Black and White All Over sold out at SF Fringe '99. SF
Guardian: "A solo triumph" SF Weekly: "Among the best of
the Fringe"
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus; Ecco; Oakland, CA; Ensemble Performance;
Children over 15 could enjoy it.
Repetitive work? A fate worse than death. The Ancient Greeks thought so.
Sisyphus was cursed to push a bolder up a hill for all eternity. "But
what if he were happy?", Camus asks. Drawing, like Camus, on everything
from Kafka to Don Juan, from nursery rhymes to suicide to yo-yo's, the ecco
group turn their multimedia sensibilities to Camus' Myth of Sisyphus and
one of the core questions of the last century.
nEO- sURREALISTS SYSTEMS PRESENTS: THE SYM-PHONY MECHANIQUE
By the nEO-Surrealists; LA; Ensemble Performance
Madness; Not for children; Mature content, Gunshot, Coarse Language, Nudity,
Smoking, Strobe (All of the above, especially the strobe. Ever seen a blacklight
strobe?????), Your mom won't like it!
After escaping captivity in the dungeons of feudal Japan, the nEO-sURREALISTS
attempt a feat unlike any they have ever attempted... Preparing a show MORE
than one week before the opening of the festival!! Come see what these old
favorites of the festival come up with this year (Yes, there will be cheese.
There will ALWAYS be cheese...). But be careful!! You may end up wanting
to take us home!
Number 2
Banana, Bag & Bodice; New York; A Sensitive
Leapfrog; Not for Children; Mature content, Gunshot, Coarse Language, Nudity,
Smoking, Strobe & Pornography
From last years successful SF Fringe show, "The Bastard Chronicles",
Banana, Bag and Bodice entertains a bland effort to dull all effects. A
children's show unfortunately not for children. Contains a polyorchid and
a bowl of gruel. "How empty."- first attempt to walk; His mother
said this. Can't. The punctuation was all wrong.
- In place of Byron Yee's previously announced Opium
is:
- Paper Son
By Byron Yee; San Francisco; Solo Performance ; Not for Children; Coarse Language.
"Best of SF Fringe" winner Byron Yee returns with his criticaly acclaimed work Paper Son:- What happens when a one-in-a-million guy becomes one of a million? When a Chinese Okie shows up in Chinatown? Byron Yee explores those and other questions in this autobiographical solo performance. The son of a Chinese immigrant, Byron grew up in Oklahoma before establishing himself as one of a handful of Asian American stand-up comics in the country.
- Paper Son
The Regular Show
The Regular Show Ensemble, San Francisco, Variety
Show; Not for children;
The Regular Show presents their best original short sketches and monologues
in this fast-paced variety show. Started by members of Climate Theatre's
Writers Who Act, The Regular Show mixes comedy and drama in their Fringe
debut directed by Jane Barrett. Enjoy: Backstage interviews with cinema's
most celebrated finger puppets. Earning an est training cupcake. A song
about dirt. A girl, a trailer, a mentally challenged cousin. An overeating
anorexic. And the long awaited sleep bra. http://www.regularshow.com
Run Jenny
By Michael Thomas Tower; Bay Stage; Oakland; Play-Drama;
Children over 12 could enjoy it
In the South of the 1850s, slavery was a way of life ensuring abundance
for the White folks. But some of them opposed slavery. When the wife of
one slave-owner devises a plan for the escape of her husband's slaves, the
scheme goes awry and she is tried for his murder. There is only one person
who will tell the truth, but a slave has no voice. BayStage.com
Seeds Of Longing: Humankind's Role In The Continuing
Education Of God
By Elizabeth Anderson; River of Remembering Productions;
Durango, Colorado; Solo Performance with original music; Children over 10
could enjoy it.
Spiritual Healer limits herself to playing God, Jesus, and the Essence of
Humankind. A spark of consciousness grows legs, puts on a skirt, and names
everything in sight. God falls in love with Man, slays her with a tango,
and apologizes for transgressions against humanity. And Jesus . . . well,
what was the crucifixion about, anyhow? If we are God estranged from ourselves,
how do we remember who we are? www.RiverofRemember.com
Slam! Bam! Thank You Ma'am
Greg Nott; Cracked Pot; San Francisco
When a fag and a dyke try to hide in bed, visits pile up instead. A
cycle-slut, the Lesbian Police, and a cavalcade of Machiavellian poets armed
with vicious rumors invade this cozy sanctuary, without a shred of respect
for our heroes' personal space. This is a seamy expose of the Poetry Slam
Nationals, written by someone (aka horehound stillpoint) who knows the scene
like the back of his ... nevermind. Carl Thelin, Director
Sole Searching
By Malcolm Grissom; San Francisco; Solo Performance;
Not for children; Mature Content
Another comedic slice of life from actor/commedian Malcolm Grissom, Sole
Searching explores addiction and recovery. To Marcus Washington, sex was
the key to paradise. During sex, he felt beautiful and wanted. So it was
natural that he developed a taste for it. But his hunger led him away from
paradise. Now, he has to find his way back. Let the search begin!
The State of the Empire Address: As Delivered by His
Majesty Norton I on
This First Day of January in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen-Hundred and Eighty
By Marc Wilson; San Francisco; Play-Drama; Children
over 12 could enjoy it.
Returning to his room from a New Years' revelry with socialites, newspapermen,
and city newcomer Robert Louis Stevenson, Emperor Norton, San Francisco's
most renowned eccentric, delivers to himself a command summary of his two
decades' delusory reign over the nation. Reviewed are his vigorous correspondence
with world leaders, his notorious flirtation with Queen Victoria, his many
ignored ukases dissolving Congress, and his quixotic attempts to secure
a pair of pants with an intact seat.
Stew!
By Cameron Galloway; Iron Workers Local 202 Theatre
Co.; San Francisco; Play-Comedy
Eustencia Charity, a quirky cooking show star, has a problem. Her producers
don't see food the way she does; as the gateway to the soul. How can she
keep entertainment value up while satisfying the heart? The answer is a
darkly whimsical recipe for hope.
Ten
By Kevin Augustine; Lone Wolf Tribe; Philadelphia;
Solo Performance/ Puppetry; Not for Children
Lone Wolf Tribe, Winner of the overall excellence award for Solo Show (Big
Top Machine, NYC Fringe '99) debuts Kevin Augustines newest production Ten.
A solo pursuit on the nature of creation. In laboratory #606 the creator
& Daniel don elegant tuxedos in an exploration of life & loss &
the tether line between them.
That Dorothy Parker
By Carol Lempert from the words of Dorothy Parker;
Me & Mr. Jones Theatre; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Solo Performance;
Not for children; Mature Content
Hit of the '98 Toronto Fringe!!! "Lempert is right on the money with
her
performance"-NOW Magazine. Spend an hour with THAT DOROTHY PARKER as
she "holds court" around New York's famed Algonquin Round Table.
The show weaves together hilarious anecdotes of Mrs. Parker's life with
selections of her writing. A witty, biting, slice of literary history. Won
an Emerging Writer Award and nominated for the 2000 Canadian Comedy Awards.
Theatre / Plague
Antonin Artaud, Atomic Elroy, Zelda ; CHAOS-Theatrearts;Colorado
Springs, CO.; Solo Performance; Not for children; Mature content, Coarse
Language, Nudity
Atomic Elroy taps his humorous and satirical nature as he adapts the works
and ideals of the French Poet/Playwright Antonin Artaud and muses about
being voted the "Avant Guardian" of the Christian right wing capitol
of the nation. http://www.chaostheatrearts.com
Thicker Than Water
By Kirby Brown; The Rough Theatre Company; San
Francisco; Play-Drama ; Not for Children
A dying father reunites a scattered family to face their past and evaluate
their future. Thicker Than Water, a new play by San Francisco playwright
Kirby Brown with the director of 1999 "Best of Fringe" winner
Talking with Angles Bradford Cooreman.
Tim's Magic Lantern Show
Tim Gallaher; Plen'y Lickin's Productions; San
Francisco; Multi-media; Children over the age of 12 could enjoy it.
Using music, films, puppets, storytelling and high jinks, this solo,
lo-tech, multi-media extravaganza wetly licks the sublime and the insane
while feasting upon altered states and born-again corporate zombies.
Tim shares several personal and bizarre experiences that revolve around
his unique perspective on the human Imagination, and ultimately he
asks: If sunshine almost always made John Denver high, then by golly,
why not the rest of us?
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
By Christopher Marlowe; Millennium X Theatre Co.;
Hayward; Play-Drama; Not for children
Seduced by evil, the magic of the dead and hell's spirits, Dr. John Faustus
sells his soul to the devil for 24 years of omnipotence. What follows is
a tug-of-war for one man's salvation or damnation. This sexually charged
telling of the tale combines stylized movement and strong ensemble work
with the powerful words of Christopher Marlowe. It would be a sin to miss
this exciting show.
Trailer Trash Tabloid! : The Mobile Homo Sex Scandals,
Murders & Other Unnatural Disasters Of 1964
By Lewis Routh; Pink Flamingo Productions; Orlando,
Florida; High Camp Comedy; Children Over 13 Could Enjoy It: Mature Content,
Sexual Innuendo
Lewis Routh's award winning, sell out, hit show of the Orlando Fringe Festival
and Gay Days 2000! Two actors, Michael Wanzie & Doug Ba'aser, don a
dozen different outrageous costumes, fully populating a South Georgia trailer
park decimated by a tornado in which the mystery of the murder of the Velveeta
magnate is discovered on a tabloid TV talk show!
Treachery
By Clark Morgan; Raw Hide Theater; San Francisco;
Play-Comedy; Children over 16 could enjoy it; Mature Subject, Coarse Language
Raw Hide Theater presents three relentlessly funny shorts on the sidesplitting
topic of betrayal. Two mafiosi confront the riddles of loyalty and misplaced
objects, a young woman tries to get her priest to agree she's committed
adultery, and a woman mourning her late tennis partner finds love from an
Englishman obsessed with the Revolutionary War. Wacky, funny, and set in
the state of New Jersey.
Withering Glances
Parched Camel; San Francisco; Multimedia Dance/Drama/Comedy;
Not for children; Mature content, Coarse Language
Welcome to a place where identities and assumptions collapse and rebuild
themselves in the wink of a candle flame. Shadows from the past drift
featherlike over the now and then merge with dark secrets bubbling out of
the mouths of babes. Two people come to terms with each others' shadows
as they fall out of love. Developed collectively with previous "Best
of
Fringe" writers Trevor Allen and Michael McElligott.
Woven
Written by the cast, Conceived by Noah Harpster; Santa Barbara,
ca; Dance/Movement Musical Theatre ;Children over 13 could enjoy it; Coarse
Language
"This troupe has the freshest, most fun approach to the stage I've
seen in town, and by the response they're getting, it looks like they'll
be in high demand for some time to come." "The show consists of
10 to 20 creative vignettes that meld music, movement and irreverent humor.
An ensemble cast of young, energetic performers, clad in T-shirts engage
the audience with improvised interactions and spontaneous reactions that
range from funny to poignant and back again".Forget everything you
know about theater!-SB NewsPress http://www.wovenworld.com
Zewski's Folly
By Paul Kwapy; Barking Cat Productions; San Francisco;
Improv/Sketch Play; Not for children; Coarse Language
WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE; Once a professional 'hitman' hired by San Francisco
landlords; he eventually ended up in therapy telling his inner child to
chew with his mouth closed. With comedic sketches ranging from a reincarnated
Elvis to a 400-pound nun, is this an invitation to witness his show or is
it a ruse to fill a theatre full of tenants with rent control? Either way,
one hopes you will die laughing. Http://home.pacbell.net/zewski