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1 Quandary Place
Abundance
ADVENTURES OF A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER
Barroom Philosophers
Border Crossings
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: SUPER GLOSSY!
Reviewer: cast of ihatemyfriends
5 Stars
Show was great! Lots of Fun! Interesting characters and thought provoking
story...a definite must see! Something(s) for everyone! Can't stop shouting
SUPER GLOSSY!!!
Play: Super Glossy
Reviewer: Gemma Wilcox
5 Stars
Amazing woman, amazing show. Funny, and thought-provoking. Don't miss! I
saw this in Minneapolis AND New York....she kick's ass...
Play: Super Glossy
Reviewer: Holly P
5 Stars
This show is definitely one of the most original at the Fringe this year
- Courtney McLean is a fast-shit-smack-talkin' performer that lights you
on fire! The concept of a "science fiction satire on women's magazines"
is something that raised my eyebrows, but she that's exactly what she delivers,
hilariously. Go see it if only for the awesomely scary ending.
Play: Super Glossy
Reviewer: Sara K.
5 Stars
Brilliant stuff. I don't read Cosmopolitan myself, but seeing the magazine
covers at the supermarket is enough to make me laugh. Courtney McLean makes
me laugh three times as hard. I suppose I was the choir to this show's message,
but McLean is such an outrageously talented performer, and there are so
many sharp turns of phrase that this show is a theatrical feast - for example
"You're perfect the way you are, you fat cow!"
Play: Super Glossy!
Reviewer: Rick Burkhardt
5 Stars
This gets my highest rating for being by far the weirdest solo Fringe show
I've ever seen. It's also the funniest. Courtney's writing and acting are
way up there with the best of 'em, but it's the content itself that sets
this show miles apart -- it starts out so innocently, and ends WAY off the
scale. Imagine Lily Tomlin joining the Firesign Theatre and then pulling
off her mask, revealing that she's actually Roman Polanski. If that won't
persuade you to go see Super Glossy, I don't know what will.
Play: Super Glossy!
Reviewer: callie
5 Stars
I caught this show in DC. Courtney is Supah Hot, Supah Sexy, and Supah Smart.
Play: Super Glossy!
Reviewer: Mia Paschal
5 Stars
Courtney is a monumental presence onstage, with an unforgettable smoldering
energy, that it's really fun to watch her. It's great to see a show with
so much passion, humour, and wit, and one that can really change the way
you see the world around you. (Or at least the world as seen in ad copy,
from Walgreen's to Vogue....)
Play: Super Glossy
Reviewer: deborah
5 Stars
Drama-rama-high-fashion-whitty-humbling-dance-a-thon spectacular and Courney
is a wild woman on stage, super HOT
Play: Super Glossy
Reviewer: Emily Morwen
5 Stars
WOW!! The shear energy that this beautiful red-head possesses is mind boggling!
This show- a sci-fi/semi-stand-up/satire/multi-media/multi-character piece-
is so original, so funny, so charming and definitely polished.
The hilarious slide show alone could keep you entertained for the whole
hour. But add to that a great story and a fantastic perform and you have
a show that show not be missed. Like I said when I saw this woman perform
for the first time in Minneapolis last year, she could make reading the
dictionary funny and exciting. See it see it see it!!!
Play: Super Glossy
Reviewer: Debbie Casey
5 Stars
Courtney Mclean is a tour de force in this, her second one-woman show. Playing
a variety of characters, she has an acute sense of the human condition in
which all of us can relate. Her edgy writing and unabashful performance
catapults this Super Glossy view into life's toughest questions into a Super
show!
Play: Super Glossy
Reviewer: Rachel
5 Stars
Courtney McLean does it all. She wrote and is performing a KICK ass show
that everyone ought to take a peak at. She outs the magazine and fashion
industry and their crimes against women. Courtney has a spitfire presence
on stage jumping from character to character with out a blink or hesitation
keeping the crowd on their toes wondering what will happen next?
Play: Super Glossy
Reviewer: Andy
5 Stars
I saw this show in Minneapolis and have been recommending it to all my friends.
Courtney McLean is an adept, charming, scary, amusing performer who seems
to know exactly what she's doing at nearly every step (particularly in the
moments of shifting between characters). I found "Super Glossy"
to be a fascinating, dark, feminist sci-fi critique of the fashion industry
and the objectification of women. It's one of those shows that "seems
long" in GOOD way--as in "did she really just pack all that into
sixty minutes?" Great writing, great performance, and the slides were
creepy, fantastic, hilarious.
Play: Super Glossy!
Reviewer: Craig Kensek
4 Stars
Super Glossy! - Super Pink! Super Funny!
Highly entertaining. Funny. Energetic. Way too true observations about women’s magazines, what they write about, the women who read them, and the singles scene. You’ll find this one woman show even more amusing if you had the opportunity to read a recently newspaper article about the tribulations of being a redhead in the UK.
The crowd wasn’t large, but the laughter was. Courtney’s channeling of a singles bar male sleaze was right on. The plot to “to brainwash the women of Earth” is an integral part of the production. This doesn’t mean that this is a “science fiction” play. Trekkies ­ stay away. You won’t get it. If you’ve ever gone out on the prowl on a Friday night (or pretended to), you will. At the end of the play, I told the Fringe doorkeeper, “I think I’ll pass on dating redheads for awhile!”
Play: Supper Glossy
Reviewer: Patrick Blake
5 Stars
This is exactly the sort of show that I go to Fringe Festivals hoping to
see. It is funny, political, and very well acted. It should be on everyone's
"must see" list.
Play: Super Glossy
Reviewer: Rick
Smart & funny. A fun play with a story that's really well crafted. She does a great job of revealing the plot (the evil plot), little by little.