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Far From Springer
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Neon's Crazy Blue
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Searching for God in Kerala
Seventh Game of the World Series
Shadow Kissers
Strobe Vision
This World is Not My Home
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Twinspeak
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: Fan in Oakland
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Rating: 5 Stars
HHhhmmmm , YUM!! Good theater!! Very satifying!
Play: Shadow kissers
Reviewer: henry dunn
Reviewer Email: henrygdunn@hotmail.com
Rating: 5 Stars
There is the conventional, hum drum theatre that just simply bores me rigid.
Desperately waiting for the interval at the R.S.C.on more than one occasion
comes to mind. Then there are gems such as Shadow Kissers that renew my
faith in theatre. Exceptional. Only hope I get another opportunity to see
it
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: B. Johnson
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Rating: 3 Stars
Somehow I guess I expected more. Maybe it was the unbearable heat the night
I saw it. I give the performer a lot of credit for working under such conditions.
Some memorable and amusing stuff. I'm just not sure I find dope addicts
that funny. All right, the cripple addict was pretty funny.
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: Ingrid
Reviewer Email: ingridj@sbcgloblal.net
Rating: 5 Stars
This show is amazing. Throughout the performance, I laughed and marvelled
at this woman's talent. Then for days after, the show inspired insights
about human nature, suffering, relationships and change.
Play: Shadow kissers
Reviewer: mary
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Rating: 2 Stars
Great performer with some good writing. Now, as a production, it is far
from what it should be before showing it to an audience. i would call it
a workshop-performance, maybe! Keep working on it...
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: Xara
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Rating: 3 Stars
Abby is a wonderfully talented performer and this play showcases her talents
well. Unfortunately it doesn't do much else. There is little thematic or
emotional linking between the various characters she creates, and the ending
feels rushed and oddly goofy. She's a great performer, but her script is
in need of a rewrite or three.
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: lizza
Reviewer Email: emaher@virnig.com
Rating: 4 Stars
She's a very good actress. Character work - great. She brought out a friend
to perform in the beginning. I don't remember his name. He was a lovable,
funny improviser. Then Abby did her show - and like I said - great acting.
The writing was fine - but I like root for characters - and didn't really
feel like rooting for any of the characters she created. They were all pretty
much self-centered bitches - I thought. But great acting!!!
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: Mark
Reviewer Email: skippymac@earthlink.net
Rating: 4 Stars
Abby is extremly intuned with her senses. She has the unique gift to transform
herself into another character instantaneously-- from sex-deprived Jewish
mother, to street-wise crack whore, to innocent saviour, et al. Not only
does she understand her body and her voice, but she has an inate sense to
understand how and why people behave and do the freaky things they do. As
I watched, I had the sense that she somehow had a direct personal connection
with these characters. Maybe not always autobiographicaly, but definitely
well enought to make me feel like I was equally connected. I think what
makes her performance stand out from others is that she talks about the
things that we all think, but are afraid to say. She walks on stage and
let's us have it. She's hard, yet tender. She's smart, yet naive. Definitely
one of the best Fringe performances I've seen. I walke away singing here
melodies and wanting more.
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: TLerner
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Rating: 4 Stars
Abby is an outstanding performer. She's more than funny, wry, bittersweet,
brave and posesses that spark which differentiates between an actress and
a star. She's a star. Her show (my absolute favorite so far) is a work in
progress, which she's pretty up front about, part of her fabulous charm,
chatting in a stand-up-ish way with the audience in between her excellent
character full of smart social commentary. She's a dreamdove. I'd give her
5, but the show's not finished.
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: Brandon
Reviewer Email: brandonrulestheworld@earthlink.net
Rating: 4 Stars
Show starts off rocky, as Abby asks the audience to let her try out two
new bits. But once the show gets rolling, she proves to be a powerhouse
monologuist -- like a female Eric Bogosian. Great acting, and mostly clever
writing. I loved the way she interwove the different characters, revealing
a little more about them each time they appeared. And her songs between
monologues were sweet and touching. She also threw in a hilarious of great
ad-libs when she stumbled.
Play: shadow kissers
Reviewer: lips
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Rating: 2 Stars
To me, this is a powerful piece in limbo. She's working through the needs
and desires of several women, all of whom are also in limbo- either waiting
for rescue and unable to make a positive move. It's an interesting meditation
on how people keep themselves down. Unfortunately there are moments when
this skilled performer lets us into her personal problems - highlighted
by her promotional efforts in the non-ego ego fashion. It becomes more difficult
to care about the characters she creates when she keeps drawing our attention
back to herself.
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: Darryl Henry
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Rating: 4 Stars
Tight peformance as Schachner segues from one character to the next. The
changes in facial expression between characters are strong enough you feel
as if someone else is on stage. Each vignette stands on its own. At times
dark, just about always funny, sexucal undertone (and overtones) throughout.
Go for it. This isn't one for the kids!
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: Joshua
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Rating: 3 Stars
Very good one woman show. Abby moves from one mesmerizing character to the
next and keeps you wanting more. Saw the first show and she was a little
shaky and forgot some parts (marketing ploy??). But her characters will
keep you on the edge of your seat. Very entertaining.
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: Vince Vitale
Reviewer Email: WorldGazer@aol.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Abby Schachner effortlessly navigates between the characters of four women
from totally different milieu: an addictive personality, a southern “cripple-lover,”
a black street prostitute and a sexually-shut-down Jewish wife. Great monologues,
immediately involving and engaging. And along for the ride is Matt Kaye,
who portrays a dorky high school sex education teacher, taking questions
from the class/audience. The comic and serious portrayals counterpoint each
other well.
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: Me
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Rating: 5 Stars
Abby rocks! My favorite show so far.
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: Luz
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Rating: 5 Stars
I absolutely LOVED this show. My favorite at the Fringe so far. Very funny
and talanted lady.
Play: Shadow Kissers
Reviewer: Jes'Fine
Reviewer Email: jes_fine@hotmail.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Definitely one of the top tier fringe shows. Genuinely funny character sketches
that move right along. Opening night was a crisp short but very sweet, funny
40 minutes. Clever marketing ploy of forgetting some of the pieces and promising
to remember more for the next performance."Come again and see if you
can pick out the parts I left out." A must see show.