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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
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- 1play = 10
2name = thessaly
3email = thessaly@originalactionpack.com
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = Actually I give this 10 stars. Easily the best of the Fringe;
one of the best pieces of theater I've seen in a long time. If anyone
out there is disappointed at missing the Henson International Puppet Festival
going on in NYC, go see 10, if you can get in, and you'll be right there
at the H.I.P.F. in N.Y.C.. Kevin Augustine is an supremely talented artist
and his creations are universally poignant, intellegent, funny and thought-provoking.
- 1play = 10
2name = brewster
3email = brewster_david@hotmail.com
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = Excellent, amazing, captivating. Solo monologue/performance and
2 person puppetry, and additional puppetry from solo performer. I loved
it from the beginning monologue, even before the wonderful puppet emerges.
Kevin's monologue was jangled and loopy, and I was drawn in by his performance
and by the music, sound and light effects. It was funny and sad, then disturbing
(and frankly a little too disturbing for me. WARNING: PUPPET ABUSE. I was
hoping for social services to intervene), but in the end, it was beautiful
and moving, both in the puppet-movement, and in Kevin's sorrowful performance.
This was a piece about creation, and the self-concious references in the
script (ie: the author/performer knowing he's in a play, and that he is
the creator of the world of the play) work nicely with the theme, and were
very funny - I loved those. Such an intriguing theme for any writer/creator.
As a solo performer, I was jealous of what he was going after, bringing
to!
gether: monologue, puppetry, sketch comedy, music, sound effects, light
effects. Human interplay with puppets, even a little ventriloquism. There's
a lot going on here to keep you entertained. The music, the sound effects,
his use of light fixtures on stage: were not incidental, they were part
of the show...and so kudos to the excellent tech crew for pulling this
off. Favorite parts were Daniel the puppet's face when he strains his arm,
music when he searches for his legs, the birthday party scene, and Kevin
screaming in the subway car.
- 1play = 10
2name = Carl Thelin
3email = carl_eye@hotmail.com
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = GO SEE THIS PLAY!!! It is witty, elegant, ludicrous, fumbling,
complex, passionate, and incredibly beautiful. You will stumble out of
the theatre feeling numb. Hours later you will still be thinking and feeling
about it. It is Frankenstein; it is Jekyl&Hyde; it is Brave New World;
it is even Das Kapital. Fantastic writing, evocative puppets; brilliant
performance.
- 1play = "10"
2name = Bruce Reeves
3email = bugfat@earthlink.net
4rating = 4 Stars
5review = One man, 2 life-sized puppets, and 2 almost invisible puppeters
create in 1 hour a touching, sometimes frightening, compelling drama of
the agony of creative birth. You will find it impossible to forget or ignore
the images and the emotions evoked by them.
- 1play = 10
2name = TheGink
3email =
4rating = None
5review = Wow, what a head trip. A startlingly intense experience- I hate
it when people say, "I laughed, I cried" but I really did. The
author/performer runs the gamut of acting chops from goofy to psychotically
frightening. I see why his fiance loved but left him. His "creation"/son,
Daniel, has an innocent, forgiving personality and mutely loves him despite
considerable emotional abuse. Don't miss this show! From what I saw, Kevin
Augustine is going to be a VERY FAMOUS ACTOR.
- 1play = 10
2name = Denise Dee
3email = unionofopposites@hotmail.com
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = Dark, sad, sweet, heartbreaking, thoughtful, just like life ...
The puppets hand reaching out to touch him, and the puppets facial expressions
made me want to cry, but oddly hopeful at the same time.
- 1play = 10
2name = Clef
3email =
4rating = 3 Stars
5review = '10' veers from nearly perfect, to nearly awful, and back again.
As a bittersweet Frankenstein tale of thwarted ambition and frustrated
desire, it is brilliant. But its stubborn insistence on trite self-reference
is, at best, distracting; at worst, embarrassing. The disorganized material
is further marred by a failed-love story that goes nowhere. With judicious
editing, this show could have earned a five. The puppetry is marvelous,
as is Mr. Augustine's performance. But neither is completely able to overcome
his unfortunate penchant for self-indulgent writing.
- 1play = 10
2name =
3email =
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = Who would have thought that genuine emotional response could
be elicited on behalf of a crude gathering of foam and thread and sticks
that make up Daniel - but the audience felt genuine concern for the well-being
of this unfinished new being. We feel Daniel's physical pain of sore knees
as his legs don't quite function, and the psychic pain of failure and rejection.
We are grateful to the mostly invisible puppeteers who surprise us with
glimpse at their compassion. The writer/actor surprises us with a range
of skills from comedy to pathos.
- 1play = 10
2name = Vince Vitale
3email = WorldGazer@aol.com
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = Puppetry is not often identified with dysfuction and the wrenched
emotions which 10 presents to us. Kevin Augustine's work (he created the
puppets, as well as wrote, directed and performed) is a frightening invitation
into the world of "the creator." Who is The Creator? For people
in the arts, this will resonate as the relationship between their inner
psychosphere interacting with their writing, their acting -- their passionate
work. But The Creator is also the parent who literally brings someone into
the world and uses the child to support a failing ego. It is difficult
to leave 10 without having weeks of internal psycho-social topic matter
to think about. There is even a surprising relationship between The Creator
and the puppet helpers, who are initially black-hooded figures who help
move the puppets, but later have an acknowledged role in the process. Often
frightening in its enigmatic content, 10 is high on my list of Fringe productions
which invited me i!
nto the dark side of the soul.
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