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		2007 SAN FRANCISCO FRINGE FESTIVAL AUDIENCE REVIEWS
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CLICK HERE FOR RECENT AUDIENCE REVIEWS CLICK ON PLAY FOR REVIEWS OF THAT PLAY & billions more 1 Quandary Place Abundance ADVENTURES OF A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER Barroom Philosophers Border Crossings The Children's Museum Class Notes Embarrassment & Death The Falls of Vincent Millay Found and Lost: Goals for 2002 Frisco Fred's Cabaret! Fuck You Cancer Great Hymn of Thanksgiving / Conversation Storm The Hasheesh Eater Heavy Metal Playground HER KIND: The Life & Poetry of Anne Sexton i hate my friends Jesus Rant Kiss My Booth Korean Badass Low Hanging Fruit Monkey Poet Stand-Up! Organic Boxed Chicken Stock parts is parts: Party of One RM3 The Sewers Shopping as a Spiritual Path Spotless Stetson Manifesto A Strange Black Passion Super Glossy! TeleMongol Terrible Voice Tesla's White Pigeon Turn of the Screw You Go First		Play: I hate my friends Reviewer: lyncoln 4 Stars Good show. Love the setting. Very original. The Hotel Bijou is a good choice. From the hotel room then to the conference room. We saw the last and 5th show of the day, all the cast looked exhausted. The dog shows it. The dummy was the only one in top form. Play: i hate my friends Reviewer: The Puppet's Agent 5 Stars Yeah, yeah, the play is great...i loved everything about it...and i am totally unbiased...blah, blah, blah...but what a waste not utilizing the real star...and my client, RANDY!...what were they thinking not allowing him to speak???...hey Randy...i hope you are happy now...i told you theatre was a waste of your time and talent...get your butt back down to LA...you've got a MONEY MAKING MOVIE to shoot!!! your friend, at least 10% of the time, your COMMERCIAL/FILM agent... Play: i hate my friends Reviewer: yawza 3 Stars This is worth going to see for the packaging alone which is creative and unusual enough to carry you past the fact that the play has serious issues. Great concept of having you be a fly on the wall ,actually one of ten flies, in the hotel room and then becoming an actual a part of the seminar being presented in the conference room. But the play itself needs editing and there is very little connection and/or chemistry between the actors. Maybe this has to do with the almost assembly line process of doing one performance right after the other for five shows. At the end , I knew intellectually what the play was supposed to have been about ,but somehow there was something missing in the way it was done. Still I'd recommend seeing this for the concept and for the effort. Play: i hate my friends Reviewer: Cami 5 Stars Hmm. I actually really have to disagree with the two that commented on the 'exhaustion' and 'lack of energy' of the actors. I thought the play really worked! I loved the intimacy of the piece. I have found myself thinking a lot about it and the ideas it brought to surface. I highly recommend seeing it!! Play: i hate my friends Reviewer: J. Lee Vocque (Barroom Philosophers) 3 Stars I love love love loved this concept. However the lack of chemistry between the actors and dead energy killed this show. Being in the Hotel room pulled me into the first part of the story, talking directly to us and making us a part of the Convention pulled me into the second half. But something was missing. Please go see this show for the unique concept and decide for yourself. Play: i hate my friends Reviewer: The Stingy Fringies 3 Stars We love the concept of using a hotel room and conference room for a play. We love squeezing into tiny elevators with the entire audience and watching the actors work up close. We even love changing our identity from invisible observers to active participants in the play. But we don't love performances when the leading actors are clearly exhausted and/or share zero chemistry. While we admire your work ethic, your rigorous schedule (10 shows in 2 days!) may be detracting from your craft. We don't love being lectured by a zombie, or watching someone half asleep go through the motions of being kinky. We get that every day at the office. Don't you drink coffee? Or take speed? You are actors, right? We think it comes down to this: either cancel your 4:00 shows and take a quick nap, or cancel your 4:00 shows and have a quickie. You do get points for the dog. Play: I Hate My Friends Reviewer: Rob Chase 4 Stars This was a fascinating piece of theatre. I found myself wishing a number of times that the lead character had more energy and wanted a bit more sense for the character arcs in the ending, but it was very much worth seeing. Unique and well executed, a marvelous concept. You just won't see many plays that are set and staged in a hotel room. Play: i hate my friends Reviewer: Pat 5 Stars There are only 10 seats for each performance of this amazing show, so get there early! It is a theatre lover's dream, playing with the 4th wall in a most intriguing way. The well-written and well-acted plot is made absolutely fascinating by its incredible setting: the 10 audience members join the actors in a small hotel room, and then move to a conference room in the same hotel halfway through the show. The audience has the most intimate experience of the characters' actions and feelings that I have ever experienced in decades of enjoying theatre in small venues.