Fringe 2023 - Returning Favorites - Special When Lit and The Winding Sheet Outfit

Stabby Stab Stab

“You are a strange child.
It will be of my use.”

Two pre-teens are compelled to serve a modern monster; an eyeless watcher whose price for loyalty is blood. In the age of electronic loneliness, how far would you go for friendship? Based on true events in WI.

Venue: Crane Theater
Tagged for: Drama, Horror, Original Music, Historical Content
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Blood, Mental Illness, Violence, Suicidal Ideation/Self-Harm, Gun/Weapon Usage

Horror’s really not my thing, but Special When Lit (from last year’s pre-Fringe Top 10) and The Winding Sheet Outfit (from the pre-Fringe Top 10 list a decade earlier in 2012), teaming up for this Fringe show, do horror really well.  

(Personally, as a queer person in America in 2023, I can turn on the news or read a Supreme Court decision if I want to be freaked out.  I’ve never been able to get much catharsis out of fictional terrible things happening to characters, and as I get older it seems more true than before for me.  The few times I’ve watched horror movies, I’ve regretted it.  Your mileage may vary.  And judging by how much horror content there is out there, many people’s mileage does.)

The folks at Special When Lit and The Winding Sheet Outfit have already given Stabby Stab Stab an initial run at last fall’s Twin Cities Horror Festival, so it’s up on its feet and ready to creep out an audience.  And knowing them, I’m sure they fine-tuned it a bit based on what they learned at the Horror Fest.

This will, of course, be very different than last year’s hit shows from these two - Special When Lit’s unsettling Colonel Sanders faux biographical comedy Finger Lickin’ Good, and The Winding Sheet Outfit’s haunting Arsgang: What You Follow, Follows You.

Stabby Stab Stab is the only show playing out at the Crane Theater during the Fringe, so you’ll have plenty of chances to see it.  It plays every single night of the festival either in the 8:30pm or 10pm slot so check the schedule and get ready for some late night chills.

Here's some handy links to this year's Top 10, and Top 11-20 Lists, plus the full list of all returning favorites at this year's Fringe, plus a link to all the 2023 Minnesota Fringe Festival coverage.