Showing posts with label Fringe Archives 2003. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fringe Archives 2003. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 07, 2019

Fringe 2019 - Schedule Day 8 - Thursday, August 8, 2019


5:30pm - Frankenstein: Two Centuries - Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society (Shanan Custer, Joshua English Scrimshaw, Tim Uren, Eric Webster, Joe Weismann) - Rarig Thrust
(Love the idea of this old-timey radio treatment of the classic monster tale)

7:00pm - Write Me A Song (again) - The Salvage Project (Jeromy Darling) - Augsburg Studio
(Yup, seeing it two times this Fringe, too.  The creation of music fascinates and soothes me.)

8:30pm - At Ladders, Inc. - Virginia Twins - Rarig Arena
(Fringer I trust who recommended it described it as sort of Transatlantic Love Affair, but with clowns)

10:00pm - Beowulf (John Heimbuch, Charlie Bethel) - Rarig Arena
(Walking Shadow's resident playwright takes the stage to channel our late Fringe friend Charlie Bethel's vision of the legend)



For a quick list of links to my other postings, check out lists of 5 and 4.5 star shows, 4 star shows, 3 and 3.5 star shows, and shows with 2.5 stars or less; also my Top 10 and Top 11-20 new Fringe artists to check out for Fringe 2019.  There's also Returning Favorites, and Fringe Shows I Just Can't Watch Right Now, but You Probably Should.  If you want to keep me company, during my first Fringe without Mom, I'll be posting my schedule here.  Also, here's some links if you want to hit all the Fringe 2019 blog posts, or see the full Fringe Archive from years past (just keep scrolling down, or hit the different years in the archive listing for the full blog on the right side of the screen and zero in on July and August)



Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Fringe Archive - 2003 - Life of a Blogger (and Mom)...

I didn't even know what a blog was when then Executive Director of the Minnesota Fringe Festival Leah Cooper and her trusty web guru Matthew Foster asked if I would do one. The enticement was, of course, to see as many Fringe shows as I wanted to for free, as long as I wrote about them, and the festival. Having been an increasingly addicted Fringe junkie in the early years of the 21st century, this seemed like a dream job.

And then I learned that Mom's annual summer visit was going to coincide with the end of the 2003 Minnesota Fringe Festival, and I knew Mom loved theater as much as I. Why not introduce her to the Fringe?

And so our unofficial blog team and family Fringing tradition began...

Theater of the Evil Penis vs. Theater of the Happy Vagina

Theater of Me

Fringe Tips 1

Fringe Tips 2

Fringe Tips 3

Fringing With Mom

Opening Night - Oh, The Publicity!

Heard Offstage

Racial and Gender Confusion

Tip The Fringe

Community

The Must Avoid List

The Mad Dash

Best of the Fest - an overview of the highlights of the 32 shows I saw

Top 3 From Mom and Me

Fringe Achive - 2003 - My (very first) pre-Fringe Top 10

As a first time online babbler about all things Fringe, I needed to figure out a way to get my arms around the more than 150 shows that made up the 2003 Minnesota Fringe Festival. This was such an attempt, and it turned into a bit of a tradition, that grew over time.

If You Put A Gun To My Head...

...or if I was only allowed to see 10 Fringe shows, what would they be, and why?

(and so my pre-Fringe Top 10 was born...)

The full rundown on all that first 10, including...

1. Baseball, Dogs and Motorcycles - Kevin Kling

2. Staggering Toward America - Rip Rekke

3. Voice In Head - The Theatrical Music Company

4. Gilgamesh Iowa - The Ethereal Mutt, Limited

5. The Hobbit - Rhino Productions

6. I Hate This - Bad Epitaph Theater Company

7. Sock Puppet Serenade - Hunter Marionettes

8. Beauty and the Beast - Ballet of the Dolls

9. One Man Hamlet - Theater Inconnu

10. Industrials - Ministry of Cultural Warfare

In addition, I tried out a little series called Friendly Persuasion, in which I talked about other shows who people I knew where participating in, including...

Six Steps - Brent Doyle

Tell Me On A Sunday - Patty Nieman

Buy Me A Mockingbird - Tod Petersen

If You Don't Really Want To Know - Then Don't Ask Me - Kim Hines

Mrs. Cowbeach's Profession - Stuart Holland

3 Way - Filthy Whore Productions

Five Women On A Hill In Spain - Outward Spiral Theatre Company

Cafe Delphi - Nimbus

The Sugardaddy Project - 2 Desperate Chicks

Spring Awakening - Virginia L. Anderson

Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf: The Kamikaze and the Chameleon - Kirsten Frantzich and Josette Antomarchi

Fringe Archive - 2003 - 5 Stars - Life-Altering Experience

Productions in the 2003 Minnesota Fringe Festival that I rated...

5 Stars - Life-Altering Experience

Baseball, Dogs & Motorcycles - Kevin Kling

Beauty and the Beast - Ballet of the Dolls

Exposure - (the group that became) Live Action Set

Gilgamesh, Iowa - The Ethereal Mutt, Limited - I loved this show so much I went back and saw it a total of three times, resulting in posts like the review (previous link) and Bowling For Gilgamesh, and Nighttime in Gilgamesh - Far and away my very favorite of the festival, and one of Mom's, too

Industrials - Ministry of Cultural Warfare

Look Ma, No Pants - The Scrimshaw Brothers

One Man Hamlet - Theater Inconnu

Sock Puppet Serenade - Kurt Hunter Marionettes

Staggering Toward America - Rik Reppe

War Golems - Fifty Foot Penguin

Fringe Archive - 2003 - 4-1/2 Stars - Damn Near Perfect

Productions in the 2003 Minnesota Fringe Festival that I rated...

4-1/2 Stars - Damn Near Perfect

Book of Names

I Hate This - Bad Epitaph Theater

Fringe Archive - 2003 - 4 Stars - Excellent

Productions in the 2003 Minnesota Fringe Festival that I rated...

4 Stars - Excellent

The Art of Ruth Draper - Kathleen Douglass

Emily Dickinson: My Letter to the World - Elizabeth Dickinson

The Hobbit - Rhino Productions

The Love Talker - Theatre Unbound

Marlene Dietrich & Edith Paif - The Kamikaze and The Chameleon - Kirsten Frantzich and Josette Antomarchi

Medea - Eyewitness Theatre Company

Oil On Canvas - 15 Head

Selling Blood - Eyewitness Theatre Company

Teechers - Shortened Coffin Productions

Fringe Archive - 2003 - 3-1/2 Stars - Good Job Plus

Productions in the 2003 Minnesota Fringe Festival that I rated...

3-1/2 Stars - Good Job Plus

James Berry, The Reluctant Hangman - Topsy-Turvy Theater

Fringe Archive - 2003 - 3 Stars - Good Job

Productions in the 2003 Minnesota Fringe Festival that I rated...

3 Stars - Good Job

Apologetic Killer

Buy Me A Mockingbird - Tod Petersen

Captain and the Dog-Faced Boy - John Middleton

Five Women On A Hill In Spain - Outward Spiral

Six Steps - Illusion Theater

Spring Awakening - Virginia L. Anderson

Tell Me On A Sunday - Patty Nieman

3 Way - Filthy Whore Productions

Voice In Head - The Theatrical Music Company

Wind-up Toys - Threepenny Productions

Fringe Archive - 2003 - 0 Stars to 2-1/2 Stars - Run For It to Not Bad, Still Needs Some Work

Productions in the 2003 Minnesota Fringe Festival that I rated...

0 stars - Run For It

1 Star - Life's Too Short

1-1/2 Stars - Life's Still Too Short

2 Stars - Not Bad, Needs Some Work

2-1/2 Stars - Not Bad, Still Needs Some Work

uh... none...

Phew.