It turns out I know one of the playwrights on this one, plus even without that it sounded super queer, so I’m down.
Cabin Fever
Small Waves
Created by Mikela Anderson, Naomi Brecht, and Katie & Della Christ
Venue: Barker Center
Show Description:
Get ready for reality TV meets improv meets sapphics in the woods meets... a drag queen? With many opportunities for audience participation, the only thing that's sure is every performance will be different.
"Cabin Fever" is a fictional TV show and its epic season finale, during which our performance, "Cabin Fever," is set. We'll rely heavily on improv to tell our story, so there's little we can tell you about what will actually happen during the show. Especially when our audiences can affect things, too! The only thing that’s sure is that every performance of "Cabin Fever" will be different. Featuring local artists and collaborators, “Cabin Fever” seeks to provide a home in the woods for us to do what we love most – create art together.
Genre & Content: Comedy, Improv, Audience Participation, LGBTQIA+ Content
Warnings: Adult Language, Crude Humor, Drug Content, Sexual Content
The write-up in Lavender Magazine makes a good case for the show
(“Confessionals in reality TV shows are like the modern soliloquy” is a little depressing, but also true…)
“In another reinterpretation of pop culture, partnered playwrights Naomi Brecht and Mikela Anderson have teamed up with Minneapolis-based company Small Waves to put on “Cabin Fever,” a sapphic reality game show set in the Minnesota Northwoods akin to “The Ultimatum: Queer Love.”
Hosted by drag queen Buttercream, the performance is of the show’s season finale, with contestants vying for the bachelorette’s hand and the “key to the U-Haul.”
Besides scripted beats, the show will be completely improvised and even influenced by the audience, so no two performances will be alike.
“We’re putting a bunch of our gay friends on stage and seeing what happens,” says Small Waves co-owner Della Christ.
Christ’s wife and Small Waves co-owner Katie Christ explains the connections between theatre, reality TV and sapphic culture as key to their inspiration.
“Confessionals in reality TV shows are like the modern soliloquy,” she says. “Also, in both reality TV and sapphic culture, you have these archetypes of character: the U-Haul lesbian, the lipstick lesbian, the Hey Mama’s. I’ve been telling people this show is kind of secret nerdy.”
The four say the show will exemplify queer joy as resistance and poke fun at the messy lesbians they all know and love.”
So if that sounds like your cup of tea, go check it out. I will be.
Update 7/24/2025, their Fringe preview:
Here’s some handy links to my Fringe Top 10, Top 11 to 20 and Returning Favorites lists for this year, as well as all the coverage of this year’s Minnesota Fringe Festival.
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