Fringe

Title: That One Show

Opening: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 07:15 PM
Location: Know Theatre
Address: 1120 Jackson Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

Producer: Pones Inc. from Cincinnati, OH

CincyFringe Status: Returning Participant

Genre: Interdisciplinary

Title: A Short Lecture of a Different Time

Opening: Friday, June 4, 2010 at 07:00 PM
Location: Media Bridges
Address: 1100 Race Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

Producer: Karim Muasher from Astoria, NY

CincyFringe Status: Returning Participant

Genre: Solo

Title: A Night of Well Adjusted Ladies

Opening: Friday, June 4, 2010 at 08:00 PM
Location: Coffee Emporium
Address: 110 East Central Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

Producer: Venzin Althaus Explosion from Astoria, NY

CincyFringe Status: New Participant

Genre: Interdisciplinary

Title: A Brief History of Petty Crime

Opening: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 08:45 PM
Location: Media Bridges
Address: 1100 Race Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

Producer: Jimmy Hogg from Toronto, Ontario

CincyFringe Status: New Participant

Genre: Solo
 

The Cincinnati Fringe Festival is a couple weeks away, so it is time to make your schedule.  We're fast at work figuring out how to see every show, and as we go, we are previewing all of the performances.  It is incredibly difficult to pick which shows are going to be good at Fringe, but one of the best indication is knowing about the shows producers, writers, and actors.  As we go along, we'll post a few articles each day until we get through all 29 performances.

We're getting ready for the
2010 Cincinnati Fringe Festival!

Are you?
JUNE 1 - 12, 2010

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The Pick of the Fringe for 2009 were announced last night and here are the winners:

Audience Pick
Gravesongs

Critic's Pick
7(x1) Samurai

Producer's Pick
Empire of Feathers

Some off-kilter picks of my own from the festival:

Well, we did it. 31 shows in 11 days.

I'm not completely sure what I'm going to do with myself tomorrow.... sleeping in will be a part of it for sure, to recover from teh Finale Party that begins in about 60 minutes.

This was far more fun that I thought it would be. I'm not going to commit doing this for next year yet. 

However, I will be reserving this week off from work.

Cheers. On to the party.

This is easily the best Cincinnati Fringe Festival to date. There were more outstanding shows that I have seen in previous years, and the quality has been shockingly even. I say this, having attended every festival to date.

But though there were many shows to love, we arrived at our choice for Critics' Pick with little disucssion.

Our pick is Empire of Feathers by Giant Bird.

The Conveyor is proud to announce our awards of excellence for the 2009 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. After seeing about as much Fringe as is humanly possible, we wanted to give our opinion on the best. We have created a series of categories and groupings and have come up with what we believe represents the best of the festival.

I'm trying to decide whether I ought to feel embarrassed for just saying the words "Assholes and Aureoles" to a gentle elderly couple who wandered into New Stage looking for a show.

(They were looking for something else)
(I think they were a little bit confused by my response to their question)
(Would I have so enthusiastically said "Asshole" to that lady in any other context?)
(Probably not. Fringe is cool)
(And she didn't get mad)
(It's been an awesome twelve days, thanks everybody)

So, Griffin and I both have votes in the Critics' Picks, which either shows the increased respect for Internet media or is yet another sign of the coming Apocalypse.... your call.

Basically, we're all expected to vote for three shows, listing in order our choices.

I just want everyone out there in Fringe land to know that my socks have been rocked. This has been an incredible festival in so many ways. I'm thrilled with the caliber of work this year. I haven't seen a bad show, nor have I really talked about anyone else seeing a bad one. It's been a great time, and I hope that everyone else is having as much fun. And oh yeah, we broke goal last night with 37 more performances to go. This is the earliest yet!

When Thumping Techno-music plays an omniscient yet emotionally flawed character, what else could you want? Kazoos? You got it. Hats? There are some of those. Boxes? Lots of those. "April Fools" by Four Humors Theatre is a conceptual romp that explores comedy, poetry, music, and takes big chances. The payoff is in the unexpected. There is a loose narrative here that takes a back seat to expression. At times they go for a laugh, at other times the laughs just creep up on them for no apparent reason.

Writing drives "The Success Show" from Finite Number of Monkeys, and the script by Michael Comstock is force that puts the the You in You-niverse. The setting is a self help seminar and we are served up a satirical spoof worthy to be compared to early SNL or SCTV. The structure of the show puts the audience member inside the seminar right from start where you are greeted and asked to make a name tag. I was "Bob". I wanted to remain anonymous.

Post-Post Reconstructed Modern Feminism is the best way I can describe the tone of "Assholes And Aureoles" from InterAction Theater, Inc. It's pronounced like the bird "orioles" in case you were wondering.

No, I just made up that form of feminism because I have no other way to describe a show with vignettes about rape, life in a women's shelter, and pedophilia. If you can see the humor that be found in those topics, then this show is for you. It makes you laugh, but you feel a little bit bad for laughing. Then you feel stupid for feeling bad, etc.

Thought I would share some of the great work the Visual Fringe Crew is doing.

Go to:
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Jay B. Kalagayan
Founder, Director of Development
Know Theatre of Cincinnati

Volunteer Liaison / Coordinator
Cincinnati Fringe Festival
“Just Left of Off Broadway”
www.knowtheatre.com
513.300.KNOW (5669)

There is something about the Fringe Festival that is magic. You feel it balls to bones. It's a little ethereal.

But there is a more tangible magic. This is the magic of strange shit appearing on my desk. Today this included half of a tub of cold mashed potatoes, and an 8" serrated blade knife.

Where do these items come from? Who can say?
The Fringe giveth and the Fringe taketh away.

Berma-shave,

MD Eric