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- ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
ALL IN THE TIMING
ANOTHER FEMME FATALE FREAK SHOW
BEAVERZILLA
BILL'S FAMILY FUNTIME
BIRD CLUB: LETTER TO SANDRA BERNHARD
BRACE YOURSELF
BY A THREAD
CHARLIE'S ANGEL
CONDOM, THE CUCUMBER AND THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA
DAY TRIPPERS IV: PLAY- IN-A- DAY MARATHON
DIAMONDS
DUET
FAMILY TREE
FANTASTIC PRODUCT
FAREWELL TO FLESH
FINAL EXAM
FRANKENSTEIN: THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
GILD THE LILY
GOD COMPLEX
HEART OF DARKNESS
HOW TO BE A SECRET AGENT GIRL…
HUNTING OF THE SNARK
INGRATITUDE
INTERSTATE ZERO: A MONO/TRAVELOG
KITTY ULTRASOUND HITS THE ROAD
KRESKINNED
LAST SMOKER IN BERKELEY
LISTEN, I'M ONLY ONE WOMAN…
LITTLE BIT PREGNANT
LOOSE WOMAN
LUCID
MACY'S ACCOUNT
MEET JOHN W.T.O.
MIDAIR: ODES TO EASYCOMEASYGO
MOCK NAVAL BATTLES!!!
MOTHER'S MILK
ONE OR TWO THINGS
PILGRIM PROJECT
QUEENS RAIN
QUEENS!
SEARCHING FOR THE 60'S
SHANDYLAND MCVII: SHANDY IN THE FLESH…
SHARED SKITLESS
SISTERS OF SATURN
STORE ONE BLOCK EAST OF JEROME
STRANGER AND STRANGER
TOASTED
UNDERHOPE
WARZONE
WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE
YOGA OF MOBY DICK
ZOO STORY
Play: Toasted
Reviewer: Lynn Schulson
Reviewer Email: aabrie@aol.com
Rating: 4 Stars
Toasted, the story of an Internet murder case, was worth more than the price
of admission. This true story, is about those times when our character is
truly tested by the situations in which we find ourselves.
Elisa DeCarlo, the writer and one-woman cast, is a phenomenon. She is successfully able to slip into a variety of characters, personalities and mannerisms with the greatest of ease. I don't know how she kept them all straight. After a while, I felt like I knew them personally. I am sure everyone knows a 'Goddess'. The whole show comes full circle, and even the victim is not forgotten during the turmoil. The story was well written and concise with humor, suspense and a healthy dose of reality stranger than fiction, but she has to do something about her hair.
If you have the chance to see Toasted, you will not be disappointed. You will toast Elisa DeCarlo and when you're done, you'll whisper, "˜That makes one."
Play: The People Who Do That's Fantastic Product™
Reviewer: Ray Greene
Reviewer Email: raygreene@earthlink.net
Rating: 5 Stars
Thank heaven or less reputable parts for The People Who Do That! I caught
their show in its warm-up run at a theatre in North Hollywood and it was
HILARIOUS. Edgy, funny, heavily satirical, attacking racism, genetic food
alterations, yuppie preoccupations like Feng Shui, the laser-like marketing
of consumerism to children, the fallacy of such a body as a House "Ethics"
committee, etc., etc. in a really funny and sophisticated way. They'll bring
down any house smart enough to book them, no question about it, and their
sensibility is just what we need more of in these humorless times.
The show runs about an hour and it is as tight as a drum. Cleverly written,
verbally sharp, physically affecting and energetically performed, with none
of the mugging and pointless calisthenics that afflict so much live comedy.
Go see them if you're lucky enough to get the chance, there isn't a single
bad apple in the bunch. Lorne Michaels, are you listening?
Play: toasted
Reviewer: mary rapacke
Reviewer Email: mrapacke@yahoo.com
Rating: 4 Stars
An unbelievable story told in a really crazy, unbelievable way! I was at
the edge of my set sometimes, waiting for the next bit of information to
be revealed.
When suddenly someone's ordinary life becomes extraordinary, only to crash
down to ordinary again!!
Play: Kreskinned
Reviewer: sylvie
Reviewer Email: sylview@yorku.ca
Rating: 5 Stars
Kreskinned is fun and hilarious, well acted and directed. Highly recommended!!
Play: Interstate Zero
Reviewer: Ben Brunson
Reviewer Email: bjbrunson@yahoo.com
Rating: None
Interstate Zero includes timely media criticism minus hackneyed, preachy
approach. It's pacing is sublime, slowing and speeding in such the way that
staying with the actor doesn't take too much work. McElroy aptly uses mixed
media-- one of the musical segments that he mixed was worth listening to
all by itself. The concept is Psycho-Zen-Tao-Art-Sociological. McElroy's
work is currently evolving itself right beyond the mediocre limits of the
genry and climate from whence it arose. He's moving into a more rarified
air, with less and less artistic company. It is exciting to see an artist
evolve in such a way, akin to watching the guru sail out into uncharted
waters, out and out, over the horizon, into that place which defies description.
Once he gets there, no more shows, so I strongly suggest seeing this one.
It deserves more of my time reveiwing, but I am a public school teacher,
so you'll have to figure out the rest on your own. Go see the show unless
your busy being stimulated by something else unique and incredible, and
folks, Survivor ain't on TV that night.
Play: The Yoga of Moby Dick
Reviewer: (Robert Enright CBC Radio Winnipeg)
"There is a rhetorical figure called the "zeugma" in which
you get the
yoking together of improbable things. By this definition much of what
happens at a Fringe Festival is "zeugmatizing". I propose forming
a Z-list
and nominate for its first - and so far, best - entry Mark Kenward's "The
Yoga of Moby-Dick". Tap-dancing and Winnebegos is one thing, but yoga
and
the classics of American literature is quite another. Mr. Kenward is aware
that he is on terra infirma on this one, and so he structures his monologue
as a lecture that proposes to make the intellectual connections between
the
disparate subjects of his inquiry. But as always in a fringe show, the talk
turns to the talker, and Mr. Kenward is especially inventive as he
elaborates the "damp and drizzly November in his soul" that set
him on a
quest to throw a spiritual harpoon into Herman Melville's white whale. In
the course of his exposition we learn a number of things about his love
of
film (Gregory Peck as Ahab is high on the list), about his philosophy
("okay, I'm an empiricist, but at least I'm a dope-smoking empiricist")
and
that his mother stabbed his father with a kitchen knife. The subtle way
in
which he allows the verse and chapter of his literary scripture to inform
us
about the whirling sea of his personal life is wonderful to observe. Yoga
may be about non-attachment, but it would be easy to be un-yogmatic about
this imaginative and entertaining play. You can get attached to it."
Play: The Yoga of Moby Dick
Reviewer: (Jason Olynyk UMFM Radio Winnipeg)
"The Yoga of Moby-Dick is a strange merger of a book report, yoga
class,
theological discussion and personal journey. Mark Kenward takes us into
his
past and talks about growing up and finding meaning despite the tragedy
that
befell him. He talks about how first Moby-Dick, and later yoga, allowed
him
to grow and helped him find meaning in life at the times when he most needed
it. The Yoga of Moby-Dick is a one-man show that takes you through the
gamut of emotions. Often hilarious, Mr. Kenward gives a stellar
performance. You may be laughing one breath, and deadly silent the next.
He occasionally switches into characters from Moby-Dick like Captain Ahab,
and you can see Ahab's burning madness in his eyes. I highly recommend The
Yoga of Moby-Dick. The one man/one woman shows that have deep personal meanings
are almost always the best of the Fringe, and this is definitely no
exception. See it."
Play: The Yoga of Moby Dick
Reviewer: (Audience review posted by Michael on CBC Web Cafe/Winnipeg)
"This is a brilliantly written monologue written and performed by
San
Francisco yoga instructor and sometime semi-pro football player, Mark
Kenward. What makes this work breath-taking is the disparate nature of his
themes and how effectively Mark uses his putative life experiences to bind
them together into coherency. He speaks knowledgeably and interestingly
about the
philosophy of yoga; about themes in American literature; about Ambition,
focus, and concentrating one's thought; about the existence of God; and
about different ways of handling/viewing personal calamity. Into the whole
he breathes a sense of lively enquiry, skepticism, intelligence, and above
all wry humour. This is no extemporaneous rant: the script has been well
developed with the help of David Ford; yet the sincerity of delivery had
me
fully convinced that much of the material was autobiographical. Very
entertaining and thought-provoking. For me this was among the very best
of
this year's Fringe!"
Play: Searching for the 60's
Reviewer: Brian Simons
Reviewer Email:
Rating: 5 Stars
I saw Ms. Weiner perform this show in New York City. It's very funny, insightful
and thought-provoking. This is a great night at the theatre; an absolute
MUST see!
Play: Toasted
Reviewer: Bill Dyszel
Reviewer Email: 212.212@usa.com
Rating: 5 Stars
You must see this show! A compelling true story about murder in cyberspace
and one woman's often hilarious efforts to deal with secrets that nobody
else wants revealed. Elisa DeCarlo's performance is exceptional. You'll
be telling all your friends about this one!
Play: The Condom, Cucumber, etc
Reviewer: Mundy
Reviewer Email: aeslop12@mailexcite.ca
Rating: 4 Stars
So good that I wasted my time coming to this website to write this reveiw.
Play: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Reviewer: Lori Saltis
Reviewer Email: flying_fox@earthlink.net
Rating: 5 Stars
An amazing amount of talent takes to the stage during Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland. The combination of acting, music and song, and imaginative
costumes and props makes this a truly enchanting theatrical experience for
adults and children alike. This production is as witty and magical as the
original material is intended to be. It's great to see a show for the whole
family at the Fringe. And it's great to see lobsters dance!
Play: What Big Teeth You Have!
Reviewer: William Hall
Reviewer Email: whsf@yahoo.com
Rating: 5 Stars
I was able to see this plan at the Seattle Fringe and it is WONDERFUL. Eve
Smyth is an engaging and talented performer. She charms the audience from
her first moment on stage. She takes us down the seductive path of Little
Red Riding Hood into the dark woods of what it means to be a woman! This
is good stuff! Done with humor and intellegence-just what you want from
a fringe show!!!! Plan to see it.
Play: Kreskinned!
Reviewer: John Rudell
Reviewer Email: rudell@hotmail.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Excellent! I just had a chance to sneak in to
the final dress rehearsal before the company
leaves for San Francisco. A great play in
itself and very strong performances by Dean
Carter and Sasha Pishalski. They make you laugh
and they make you think, two fine performers
to watch for. Finely tuned direction, a great
deal of thought has been put into this
productions, didn't want it to end.
DON'T MISS IT! You too will be Kreskinned!
Play: Kreskinned
Reviewer: David Gibson
Reviewer Email: gibco@sympatico.ca
Rating: 5 Stars
Magic realism meets screwball farce in Kreskinned
another exceptional production from Toronto-
based Interzone (Involuntary Contraction, Matinee
Idols) Productions. Interzone veterans Sasha
Pishalski and Dean Carter portray a couple who
share a very unique first date; one fraught with sexual tension,
fear of committment and hypnotism. Dean Carter provides
a winning, nervous comic performance as a committment-phobic
serial monogamist and Sasha Pishalski turns in an edgy portrait
of an emotionally fragile dog trainer with a
dark side. Pishalski and Carter are excellent
comic foils with obvious chemistry; a Nick and
Nora for the 21st Century. Sharply directed by
Interzone founder Sam (Matinee Idols, Provincetown Playhouse)
Hancock; Kreskinned features Hancocks' trademark
visual style; another indication that Mr. Hancock
should think about tackling a musical for his next project.
Kreskinned will surely make any frowns disappear.
Play: Kreskinned
Reviewer: Luka Symons
Reviewer Email:
Rating: 5 Stars
I just saw the Canadians do 'Kreskinned' last night... I laughed so hard!
A great script full of tasty opportunities, precise directing, thoughtful
and genuine portrayals of the two characters by Dean Carter and Sasha Pishalski,
and a hilarious mid-show music video reminiscent of cheesy made-for-tv-love-stories
thrown in for good measure. These ingredients, when thrown together, make
for a riveting hour of theatre, one that begs you to sympathize with the
clumsy and awkward characters. It will find you rooting and cheering for
the pair, leaving the theatre with a smile stretched across your face. Enjoy!
Play: The Condom The Cucomber, and the Girl From Ipanema
Reviewer: Mick
Reviewer Email: mpj69@hotmail.com
Rating: 5 Stars
A very good piece of the what's what on the current dating scene. I rarely
laugh unless provoked, and this provoked me. See this if you're looking
for a good time.
Play: "The Condom, The Cucomber, and the Girl From Ipanmena"
Reviewer: Sandra Carmody
Reviewer Email: instantcarmodian@hotmail.com
Rating: 5 Stars
This play, set in The Now, positively wowed and eleectrified me not only
because of it's adept, attractive, and amusing cast, but because of it's
razor-sharp grip on the hypocrisy, mania, ritual, and humour plaguing today's
dating twentysomethings. Not only funny and well-written, but true true
true! A wonderful piecse of theatre, kudos to the writer/performers.
Play: The Condom, The Cucomber and the Girl from Ipanema
Reviewer: Miranda
Reviewer Email: jonesgirl@yahoo.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Awesome! It's got everything..sex, funnies, good-looking actors, and common sense! Great for a laugh and a lark!
Play: What Big Teeth You Have! Or Little Red Bites Back
Reviewer: Seattle Fringe Rag Review
Reviewer Email:
Rating: 5 Stars
Theatre Au Naturel's Eve Smyth is the star of this psychosexual deconstruction
of Little Red Riding Hood, a hilarious exploration of the loss of innocence
and of the various issues at stake in time worn fairytales. The tale of
Little Red's diversion from the path is shot through with elements from
Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella. Smyth renders her three characters
(innocent Little Red, sensuous Beauty, and slightly bitter Myrtle the Fairy
Godmother) masterfully, able to drastically shift tone and setting at the
drop of a hat or the twist of a scarf. Smyth's nimble and quick dramatic
footwork allows the overarching theme of female sexual awakening to becme
clearly evident. What Big Teeth You Have! is incisive, fun, and hilarious.
Play: What Big Teeth You Have! Or Little Red Bites Back
Reviewer: The Stranger, a Seattle Alternative Weekly
Reviewer Email:
Rating: 5 Stars
This smart one-woman show comes courtesy of San Francisco's Theatre Au Naturel,
and it's a joy. Eve Smyth fleshes out three fairy tale figures: Little Red
Riding Hood (the quintessential edible/Oedipal child) is the innocent on
the verge of womanhood. Myrtle, the mother of all fairy godmothers, resents
the ungratefulness of her various charges-Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping
Beauty, etc.-once they get what they want. And the vamp is the implied but
unnamed villainess of Brothers Grimm fantasy. Not surprisingly, the vamp
finds herself quite attracted to the wolf: "I found myself drawn,"
she purrs in my new favorite line, "like an actor to a pretentious
script." But civilizing forces back at the suburban palace want to
reclaim her for a less hairy mate. Smyth palys out the politics behind these
fairy tale models with humor and a wolfish bite. It's the perfect bedtime
story.
Play: What Big Teeth You Have! Or Little Red Bites Back
Reviewer: The Seattle Weekly
Reviewer Email:
Rating: 5 Stars
Eve Smyth's one-woman deconstruction of "Little Red Riding Hood"
hits the fairy tale from all sides, as Little Red strays from the Path of
Virtue. She instead decides to make her own way, to "break free from
the beaten path which is fast becoming a rut." When she does, she metamorphoses
into the Fallen Red, a sexually craven woman whose story becomes Beauty's
(as in "and the Beast"). Outside the path, the somestimes disturbing
universe of fairy tales is governed by the chipper Good Fairy, Myrtle, whose
wish-grantees include none other than Cinderella. Smyth is a delight in
all three roles, leading us around the entire Brothers Grimm with sparkle,
confidence, and sass.
Play: LITTLE BIT PREGNANT
Reviewer: Terrie Gottstein
Reviewer Email: webster@alaska.net
Rating: 5 Stars
I was fortunate enough to see this play when it had its premiere in Anchorage.
Playwright/actress Barbara Brown's weekly columns for the Anchorage Daily
News reflect her talent for taking events in her daily life, and presenting
them in a way that makes us laugh, cry, and think. With this play, she has
not only managed to WRITE brilliantly about a particularly frustrating,
painful and personal time in her own life with that same sense of humor
and depth, but, through her authentic performance, she has also dared to
expose the tender underbelly of all of our most private hopes and dreams.
A LITTLE BIT PREGNANT illuminates a portrait of a woman--decidedly of our
time--dealing with the double-edged blade of opportunities and disappointments
that this time has made possible for us all. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll
think, you'll remember. Don't miss it!
Play: A Little Bit Pregnant
Reviewer: Chris Chiei, Director, Alaska Design Forum
Reviewer Email: cchiei@kpb-alaska.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Barbara Brown transforms her own person struggles with infertility into
to a brilliant theatrical performance. Using simple props, she leads the
audience on an emotional roller coaster ride, cresting peaks of optimism
and valleys of denial. At every turn, a perfect balance of sensitive candor
and brilliant humor.
Her approach strikes a cord in each of us, affording us each a reflection
of our own personal struggles and our drive to overcome or accept.
I am thrilled to see this fine work live on.
Play: Charlie's Angel
Reviewer: Karen Krolak
Reviewer Email: monkeyhouse2001@hotmail.com
Rating: 4 Stars
I saw Charlie's Angel at the New York International Fringe Festival and
thought it was fabulous. Jonathan completely tranfsorms physically between
one twin brother and the other. From the first electrifying moments when
Charlie appeared on the stage I was captivated by this tale of brotherly
love and homophobia.
Play: Alice In Wonderland
Reviewer: Laura
Reviewer Email: Bovnize@yahoo.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Great! Lot's of fun both for the audience and the cast.
Play: Toasted
Reviewer: Peter Straus
Reviewer Email: Peterclown@aol.com
Rating: 5 Stars
This play blew my mind. I can't recommend this show enough. It is an increadible story-- which is ironic, because it's real! This all happened around Ms. DeCarlo(who wrote it and plays all the characters). It's equally nightmarish and truly hilarious... Monsters are real, and we are closer to them than we like to think. Go. You'll be changed.
Play: A Little Bit Pregnant
Reviewer: Pam McDowell Saylor
Reviewer Email: bsaylor@arctic.net
Rating: None
Barbara Brown is, among other things, a regular columnist for the Anchorage
Daily News. Her writing and acting abilities both shine in her one-woman
play "A Little Bit Pregnant". She unabashedly invites us into
a woman's private bedroom/bathroom/gynecologist's exam room world. This
world is the stage of her own psyche which has been enlarged by experiences
of friends in the similar situation of "trying to get pregnant".
It is a world seldom discussed in mixed company, much less shown on stage.
As she peels off the veils of "propriety", she manages to do so
without, if I remember correctly, even so much as exposing her belly button.
The play, along with its set and props, is highly original and humorous. Barbara's acting is confident and "in your face". The fourth wall is pretty much down and she directly engages the audience throughout. The topic is poignant; the subject is delicate. Yet her confidence, engagement of the audience, and sense of humor hold it all together in a coherent package that lodges in the memory and rises up to provoke thought and tickle the funny bone long after the performance.
Play: Loose Woman
Reviewer: Susie Williams
Reviewer Email: billweststudio@yahoo.com
Rating: 5 Stars
I saw a reading of this play in New York and it is fabulous. Lindsay Kayser portrays various "floozies" throughout the century with wit and heart. Her characters are not so much defined by their sexuality, but rather by how they use it. Each character (all from different genres and with different accents)is funny in her own right-whether you're laughing at her or with her. If you enjoy intellegent comedy that surpasses the superficuality of slapstick and enters into the world of reveletory- I would recomend seeing this show. (Or even if you just like watching a fierce chick be smart and sassy about sex.)
Play: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Reviewer: Michael Schmitt
Reviewer Email: bigmikes@pacbell.net
Rating: 4 Stars
A thoroughly entertaining one act that miraculously covers every story beat
that I can remember from the Alice In Wonderland story in only a half hour!
Great music, well acted and the costumes are hysterical. (My favorite sequence is the Lobster)
This troupe of actors is having a great time on stage and it's very contagious to everyone in the audience.
Can't wait to see this one again.
Play: The Last Smoker in Berkeley
Reviewer: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Reviewer Email: www.startribune.com
Rating: None
"Actor and writer, spins a deceptively simple, piercingly political
and ultimately captivating autobiographical tale of a woman whose neighbors
blame every illness in the neighborhood--even a cat's--on her secondhand
smoke" Jaime Meyer, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE, 8/8/2001
Play: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Reviewer: Monique Ivan
Reviewer Email: moniqueivan@dwt.com
Rating: None
Fun children's theatre!
Play: Searching for the 60"s
Reviewer: felissa esposito
Reviewer Email: felisrose@hotmail.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Wendy Weiner is just incredible in this autobiographical one-woman show. She takes the audience on a journey that's stimulating and touching bringing us right onto the stage with her. At moments I couldn't stop laughing and felt moved by how vulnerable and truthful she is about her life. A must see for anyone with an open heart and mind.
Play: The Last Smoker in Berkeley
Reviewer: Amelia O'Dowd
Reviewer Email: artdogg2000@yahoo.com
Rating: None
Sara DeWitt gives the kind of strong even performance that is a direct result
of years spent developing a comfortable almost neighborly relationship with
a stage and audience. Her performance as a woman being forced by her overly
politically correct homogenized liberal Berkeley neighborhood to quit smoking
is nothing short of wonderful. She unfolds this anticode with humor, sensitivity
and even romance. The two moments that tie for my favorite are her finding
a man in an exquisit red silk tie whom she finds herself in love with through
the most unusual but casual series of event and the story of the two cigarettes
that are spent as weapons of war. It is a beautiful story executed with
astonishing precision and intimacy.
Play: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Reviewer: Simon Hodson
Reviewer Email: simonh@hodsongroup.com
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a "must see" - if you like a traditional theme brought
to life with a humor and pace that works today - make sure you go!
Stark Raven's timing is impeccable, their costumes dazzling (& hilarious - check out the lobsters!)and their singing and dancing a sheer delight.
I took my kids to see this and they LOVED the show. The jokes work for both adults and kids - and the pace keeps everyone breathless!
Play: Loose Woman
Reviewer: Keith Baker
Reviewer Email: keith@wovenworld.com
Rating: 5 Stars
I know that it is early in the going for a review, but I feel that I would
be remiss if I didn't give people a sneak preview of this show that I saw
in the Minneapolis Fringe. Lyndsay's one woman show is one of the most engaging,
funny, and enjoyable shows that I have seen in years. The script itself
opperates on many levels and allows Ms. Kayser to move smoothly through
a myriad of characters, times and moods which leave the audience wanting
more from this most charming of actresses. A must see, at least once, but
twice if you want to catch the best jokes of the bunch.
Play: "Searching For The 60's"
Reviewer: Robin Rothstein
Reviewer Email: RTimes2@aol.com
Rating: 4 Stars
Wendy Weiner's "Searching For The 60's" is a smart and sensitive modern-day hippy trip about the search for self-discovery. Better get a seat on Weiner's magic bus before it runs out of seats. You won't want to miss this ride.
Play: Last Smoker in Berkeley
FEST'S 'LAST SMOKER' IS SIMPLY CAPTIVATING: Actor and writer Sara DeWitt,
spins a deceptively simple, piercingly political and ultimately captivating
tale of a woman whose neighbors blame every illness in the neighborhood
on
her second hand smoke. MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE, August 8, 2001
Play: Last Smoker in Berkeley
Within minutes, we see that this woman is all about life, with or without
cigarettes. Sara DeWitt gives a smart, spunky and sensitive performance
in
this funny, one-woman show. ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, August 8, 2001.
Searching for the 60's
Christen Clifford
cdcliff@ix.netcom.com
5 Stars
Wendy Weiner does it again! I saw her show "Give Me Shelter" a
few years ago and loved it--and in "Searching for the 60's" it's
wonderful to see such a talented performer and writer back in action. In
this autobiographical show, Weiner is very sexy, hilariously funny, and
gently moving. From high school to the green tortoise to burning man, this
is a trip you must take! Go to see this show!
femmefatale freak show
chrismeehan
cfrankie68@hotmail.com
4 Stars
I'm not much for dance but i saw these magical woman in Minneapolis and
they blew my mimd. highly recommended. experience something different with
a great show without all that crappy political agendas. CHECK IT OUT!
Loose Woman
Noah Harpster
mango4days@hotmail.com
5 Stars
I saw this show at the Minnesota Fringe. It kicks ass.
Another Femme Fetale Freak Show
Ruffy Landayan
ruffstuff24@hotmail.com
4 Stars
4 crazy chicks, a dancer on stilts, shiny costumes, and tap dancing, what
more can you want? I met these girls at the Minneapolis Fringe Festival
and saw their show, and it is a can't miss. Great people, a very artsy and
crazy show, you all should see it!
Loose Woman
Ruffy Landayan
ruffstuff24@hotmail.com
5 Stars
I have seen Lindsey Kayser perform "Loose Woman" at the Minneapolis
Fringe Festival, and it was a truly great show! I was a fellow performer
at the festival, and her show were among the few that stuck out. I saw close
to over 20 shows, and hers was in my top 5. She owns the stage, and her
writing and acting is very clever and witty. The show is well worth it,
and she is even a great person to get to know. Watch this show, it's funny
and poignant! She also got a couple great reviews from the Minneapolis press.
www.fringefestival.org
Look at this site for reviews.
1play = Toasted
2name = James Hannaham
Excerpted from a review in the August 21, 2001 Village Voice, where it was
reviewed as part of a double bill at HERE.
"Unusual and engaging...a great memoir told well. Self described
as a 'fat,
disgruntled alternative comic', ...this, she explains in ""Toasted",
is why
she drinks and why she joins a self-help group called Moderation Management,
an organization for people concerned about their drinking but who don't
want
to give it up entirely. Unsatisfied with the live meetings, she gets hooked
on the email list, where she rises to 'list mommy' among a group of 200,
many
of whom post while sloshed. During a particularly bad binge, a list member
named Larry confesses online to his daughter's murder, and the now familiar
ethical dilemmas of such confidential sharing circles arise. As many in
film
have discovered, email is inherently undramatic. DeCarlo's writing, however,
does a good job of bringing the electronic transmissions to life as a
story...Despite the tale's chilling payoffs, DeCarlo leaves all the moral
ambiguities intact." James Hannaham