Fringe 2023 - Top 11 to 20 List

Here's a post with a handy list of links to all the entries in my pre-Fringe Top 11 to 20 list for the 2023 (30th Anniversary) Minnesota Fringe Festival:

 

 

 

 

11 - Reincarnation Soup - Viet Nguyen

A mythic tale of soup, Saigon, & recycled souls. Journey through the Vietnamese heart in this multi-character memory play. (Best of the Fest, Critics' Choice for Drama, & Patrons' Pick at the Orlando Fringe)

 

 

12 - Allegro - Garrison Shea

Ben is a musician who wants to compose music for films but feels stuck. When the perfect opportunity presents itself, he sprints towards it, leaving a wake of collateral damage behind him.

 

 

 

13 - Audacious Ignatius: Lost In Atlantis - Kyle B. Dekker

Ignatius Donnelly was a big player in 19th Century Minnesota politics, he is best known as a crackpot tied to pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and Shakespeare conspiracies. A legacy Lost in Atlantis.

 

 

14 - The Place I Return To - Cornucopia Productions (Abdimalik Ahmed)

Adapted from his poems & journal entries across five winters, we witness both the stagnation and the evolution of emotion as Abdimalik grows up between the ages of 18-21, stuck in his room with his depression.

 

 

15 - Uncle Walt - The World Crime League (Andrew Rosdail)

A disgruntled former animator and his deadbeat brother have stolen the cryogenically frozen head of Walt Disney with hopes for a big payday…except Walt has other plans.

 

 

16 - 5-Step Guide to Being German - Paco Erhard

Wanna be German? Of course you do. And now you can, as German comic Paco Erhard teaches you how. Sold out worldwide, this award-winning show finally hits America. 5 Stars: Broadway Baby. 2022 Patrons Pick Orlando.

 

 

17 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Telltale Heart - Wet Splat Productions

Verne! Poe! Dickens! Twain! Christian Andersen! Kafka! Join us for a series of improvised tableaus based on their real-life correspondence. Everything in this show definitely, definitely really happened!

 

 

18 - Lost In Bear Country: Birth, God, Death… and the Berenstain Bears - Phil Gonzales/Raffish Ripoff Productions

Phil Gonzales invites the audience into his ADHD-addled brain as he randomly selects topics that could reconcile his sense of self with the history of a family of fictional bears. That makes zero sense.

 

 

19 - Verities - Divine Entertainment Production

Songs and stories from a NYC cater waiter during the heights of the AIDS epidemic.

 

 

 

20 - A Jingle Jangle Morning - Spektakular Theatre

Inspired by imagery from Bob Dylan's song Mr. Tambourine Man, this is a heroine's journey space odyssey with a cast of whimsical characters, large cardboard puppets, and clowning --perfect for ages 5 -105.

 

 

 

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