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69 Moments of Life
Actor, You're Killing Me
Air Tight Security
Almost True Adventures ...
Amazing Improvised Musical
Animal Farm
Ballerina on a Horse
Beautiful Man
Berserker
Caffe di Amore or ...
Check the Box
Clearing Hedges
Corned Beef
Countless
Crime & Variations
Death Blow II: ...
Demon Pope
Diagnosis: Jew Pain ...
Disco Prophecies
Ethan's Gift
Far From Springer
Fixed Boundry
Forty Love
Got Water
I Can't Believe They're Not Oriental!
Idiot Machine: ...
In Cahoots
John Muir: Watch, Pray, Fight
Late Night Talk Show
Ludlow and Canal
Magic at the Fringe
Man 1, Bank 0
Marx in Soho
Mixed Signal
Mother: A Modern Buddhist ...
Naked Inqisition
nEO - surrealists present: ...
Neon's Crazy Blue
Nharcolepsy
Original Action Pack
Park - N - Ride
Passages
Sandwich
Scabaret!
Searching for God in Kerala
Seventh Game of the World Series
Shadow Kissers
Strobe Vision
This World is Not My Home
Total Improvisation - ...
Train Stories
Tripping on the Equator ...
Twinspeak
Play: Fixed Boundary
Reviewer: Gavin
Reviewer Email: idiot_machine@yahoo.com
Rating: None
Great. LunFan carefully builds up a battery of lovable TP characters using
cartoonish vignettes, always commited to moments of childhood playfullness,
and then steadily moves through a ritual of desecration, ripping their cute
little creation apart in a universalized story of enmity and culture-wars.
Their last show, which also used only sparse sound and played childhood innocence off of militarized destruction and separation, ran about an hour fifteen. This allowed for a greater personalization of characters, but ultimately a more confused piece. The minimalism and simplicity of Fixed Boundary seems, to me, to be a real boon, at least when tackling issues as dark and broad as these. Without losing a empathy for the "actors", character detail is abandoned, meaning we do not get caught up in any specific representations of any one real-world conflict, and instead simply watch the essential moments of these horrible conflicts play out with dark innevitabilty.
But of course this shadowy side is continually balanced by hilarious
transformative puppetry and a continual drive to find creative uses for
the ordinary. Ultimately, this balance makes the ending all the stronger.
Play: Fixed Boundary
Reviewer: Carl Thelin
Reviewer Email: parchedcamel@yahoo.com
Rating: 4 Stars
Leave it to Lunatique Fantastique to come up with a charming show about
conflict in the Middle East. The charm makes the show endearing and very
watchable, and genuinely funny and sad. However, there isn't much freshness
in their material, which is essentially a dumbshow involving the movement
of a yardstick back and forth to define territory occupied by one character
or another. Definitely see this one for its charm and innovative use of
toilet paper, but don't expect to learn anything from it.
Play: Fixed Boundary
Reviewer: nash
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Rating: 5 Stars
I've never seen anything like this. It was inventive, exciting, and revealing
story telling. The only quibble I have is that the character sounds and
noises could be a bit louder but thats just a quibble, not a tech note.
Play: Fixed Boundary
Reviewer: George Freeman
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Rating: 5 Stars
Liebe Wetzel has done it again, and this time with toilet paper!
It is absolutely amazing that with nothing more than a few rolls of toilet
paper a plunger and some rulers that someone is able to tell a story about
conflict and boundaries. You should definately see this show!!!
Play: Fixed Boundaries
Reviewer: Marcy Frank
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Rating: 5 Stars
Lunatique Fantastique is an amazingly innovative puppetry troupe. Using
only rolls of toilet paper, they created a dramatic, funny, and deeply moving
narrative. This show was pure magic! Be sure to sit in the center section
for the best vantage point.
Play: Fixed Boundry
Reviewer: jes'fine
Reviewer Email: jes_fine@hotmail.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Liebe Wetzel does extraordinary work. This is absolutely must see creativity.
Check her website at www.lunfan.com for more information. A "puppet"
show on the dilemas in the middle east with characters composed of toilet
paper rolls , a plunger and measuring sticks with no dialog and absolute
magic resulting. This sells out as she has a major following in the Bay
Area so advise calling the Marsh[on Valencia in the Mission]at 826-5750
for reservations and arrive EARLY so you can get a seat in the front middle
section.