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American Appetite: Tales of Dirty Young Boys & Spry Old Men, The
An Evening At Home
Anablep and Other Oddities
Back to Kroenig
Beckett's Last Dance
Beneath Sita's Belly
Black Box Confessions
Blue Sofa
Candistan
Caught Sleeping
Cleopatra!-And Antony
ClockBusters
Death Blow - The Show
Devouring Time
Engineer and The Artist, The
Enronicles
Exit Laughing!
F--king Handicapped Guy
Fred Anderson -Professional Goofball!
Full Spectrum Improvisation
George Bush's Nuts
Getting It Wrong
Guano dell' Amore - ("Birdshit of Love")
Gulag Ha Ha
Interactive Solo Performer Daniel Packard
Ken and Andy Show, The
Lillie, A Musical
Looking, Then Pointing
Mad Adventures of Chaos For Hire, The
Me Laugh You Long Time
Menopause and Desire: Or Why Must I Be Middle Aged and In Love?
Microclimates: A Crime Against Gravity or The Burrito From Sausalito
My Son, the Mummy: Episode Pi
nEO-sURREALIST sYSTEMS pRESENTS: HOE- DOWN!!!!!
Objects In Mirror (May Be Closer Than They Appear)
OUTTAKES: Monologues, Stories, and Social Commentary
Rise And Fall of The US/them Empire, The
Smashing Icons
Something You Might Want
Song in Your Blood, The
Spray
Stranger In Woodstock
Surfing Toasters
Survival of the Fit Enough/ Fern
Talking To Myself
Tangled
Uncle Jacques' Symphony
Underground Movement Theatre
Upper Canada Cougar Movement, The
Valentine's Play Time
Way Light Strikes Filled Mason Jars, The
Winterkill
Woods For The Trees
Zucchini: The Forbidden Dance!
Play: Getting It Wrong
Reviewer: Arthur Young
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Rating: 5 Stars
Witty, prescient, well-written, charming portrayals (all 6 or 7 characters),
fast-paced, wonderfully personal.
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Reviewer: Neil & Carol Adelman
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Rating: 5 Stars
loved the play. A jewish farmgirl in marin...and it's a true story. I loved
that it was about being a jewish farmgirl, yet not a jewish play at all!
Her delivery & honesty was refreshing & animated. I even heard her
family was in the audience & you'd think that would not help, yet it
was fantastic.
BEST OF FRINGE by far
Play: Getting It Wrong
Reviewer: Susan
Reviewer Email: suzmax99@sbcglobal.net
Rating: 4 Stars
Vivian definitely got it right while "Getting It Wrong." You're
definitely not going to keep her down on the farm, that's for sure. What
a fabulous story-teller. It was very entertaining, I loved her character
work, as well as her ability to make me feel that she was talking right
to me. If this show makes "Best of SFF," as it should, then go
see it next weekend!
Play: Getting it Wrong by Vivien Straus
Reviewer: Silas Snyder
Reviewer Email: Silas@cruzio.com
Rating: 4 Stars
She did a wonderfull job of intertwining the complexities of urban life
in San Francisco with her rural upbrining in Marshal. She was also able
to deftly bring to life her multitude of characters.
Play: Getting It Wrong
Reviewer: Lizza
Reviewer Email: ubgeli@earthlink.net
Rating: 4 Stars
Charming performer. Excellent storyteller. She
managed to blend cows and live-in non-boyfriends into
a great tale. Very real. For a good part of the show,
I felt like she was telling this story for the first time.
She's just so damn likeable that you can't not like this
performance. Go and see it!
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Reviewer: Taylor
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Rating: 5 Stars
I loved every minute of Vivian Straus's performance. Hilarious, and very
real.
Play: Getting It Wrong
Reviewer: jes'fine
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Rating: 5 Stars
Another Best Of Fringe nomination. Very polished presentation. Beautifuly
crafted and acted. Great use of music and lighting. This could easily play
Off Broadway just as it is right now or expanded into a longer piece. Wed
night this show was packed to capacity and then some.
Play: Getting it Wrong
Reviewer: Ashley Fieglein
Reviewer Email: afieglein@gapartners.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Vivian Straus does an excellent job of comically tying the typical mistakes
that most women have to fess up to making in relationships to life on a
farm (or worse yet, life as a cow on a farm - are we really that bad???).
She's funny, cute and keeps you engrossed in her stories the entire time,
and the only disappointment was realizing that the play was over when it
was... Looking very forward to act II!!!!
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Reviewer: lynda
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Rating: 5 Stars
Wow! What a blast! I never wanted it to end. The combination of an insane
date gone wrong as referenced from the farmer's daughter's jewish roots
is a riot. What a sexy woman! Definately Best in Show!
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Reviewer: Susan
Reviewer Email: sallen@vsite.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Getting It Wrong is a warm and delightful memory as mentor monologue by
Vivien Straus, dairy heiress extraordinaire. She deserves a Best of Fringe
consideration. Getting it wrong is, of course, often the best lesson most
of us can ever give ourselves. At the very best, it can build character.
And it can lend itself to some interesting stories. Vivien's wonderful smile
and non whiney approach to remembrance of things past held my attention.
She has a good writer's gift for incorporating her life and lessons learned
on the Bodega Bay farm into a more difficult personal memory of searching
for a perfect love only to find herself emotionally and literally stuck
with a doozy of a dud and not strong enough to risk being thought of as
a mean person for dumping the guy. So she remains stuck, until she is ready
to move on. And she certainly did that!
I saw this performance right after Gulag HaHa (also very good). The two performances in juxtaposition made for a thought provoking and entertaining evening on the lessons of choice and entrapment. This is why the Fringe must live on, so please remember to put tips in the jar.
Play: Getting It Wrong
Reviewer: Elizabeth Chopp
Reviewer Email: bchopp@ci.cula-vista.ca.us
Rating: 5 Stars
Vivien gets it right! This is the story about the daughter of an immigrant
Jewish dairy farmer who dates a Czech refugee - and then can't get rid of
him. The story is well-constructed and both funny and touching. With only
the statue of a cow as a prop, Vivien manges to act out the roles of several
characters expertly. This should be a contender for "Best of the Fringe".
Play: Getting It Wrong
Reviewer: Ellen
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Rating: 5 Stars
It was wonderful. I had to laugh a lot. The story was real and interesting,
especially interwoven with vignettes about the farm. The acting was superb.
Play: Getting It Wrong
Reviewer: Myra Berkowitz
Reviewer Email: myra@un-export.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Wonderful mixture of stories about the upbringing of a super moral and sympathatic
Jewish girl on a dairy farm and her own personal life coping with her ambivalent
feelings for a super-macho boy friend. You want to hug her and give her
lots of good advice.
Play: Getting It Wrong
Reviewer: Sharkey
Reviewer Email: sharkeykipling@aol.com
Rating: 4 Stars
Great solo piece. Shows evidence of careful pacing and writing. Funny juxtaposition
of cows, love, sex, and parents.
Play: Getting It Wrong
Reviewer: Jon
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Rating: 3 Stars
Billed as a monologue about a jewish farm girl,
I felt I would have liked to hear more about
the farm and less about the Czech lover she
can't get rid of. Three quarters of the way
through the piece, the actress - after two years of unsuccessfully dismissing
her lover - cries out "Why can't I just tell him to leave?". This
question was also on my lips. Although the story of the Czech is amusing
in parts and interesting in others, it is too long. I would have rather
seen it cut in half and the rest of the time used to expand upon the idiosyncracies
of growing up on a jewish farm. Having said that, the piece is well acted.
For a 50 minute monologue, there is a pleasing variety in delivery and lighting.
It's a mainly enjoyable piece but I did find my mind wandering at times.
Play: Getting It Wrong
Reviewer: Jon
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Rating: 3 Stars
Billed as a monologue about a jewish farm girl,
I felt I would have liked to hear more about
the farm and less about the Czech lover she
can't get rid of. Three quarters of the way
through the piece, the actress - after two years of unsuccessfully dismissing
her lover - cries out "Why can't I just tell him to leave?". This
question was also on my lips. Although the story of the Czech is amusing
in parts and interesting in others, it is too long. I would have rather
seen it cut in half and the rest of the time used to expand upon the idiosyncracies
of growing up on a jewish farm. Having said that, the piece is well acted.
For a 50 minute monologue, there is a pleasing variety in delivery and lighting.
It's a mainly enjoyable piece but I did find my mind wandering at times.
Play: Getting It Wrong
Reviewer: Michael
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Rating: 5 Stars
A must-see, especially if you're single or like organic foods!!
"Getting it Wrong" is a quirky comedy that tells the tale of a young Marin County farm girl (think: Straus organic dairy) making her way in late 1970s San Francisco. Desperately attempting to win her father's notice and approval, her enthusiastic naiveté leads her into the arms of a paranoid Czech political refugee. In her father's words, "I can assure you, when I die, that man is not getting my farm!"
"Growing up on a farm prepared me for a lot of things," says Straus, "but never for the men I'd end up dating."
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