Fringe 2024 - Returning Favorite - Mike Fotis Productions (So Many Improvisors)

The Camp Out
Mike Fotis Productions

An Improvised One Act Play About friends in their 40s and being all alone in the woods

Venue: Mixed Blood Theatre
Tagged For: Comedy, Drama, Improv, Physical Theater
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Crude Humor, Drug Content, Flashing Lights
Ages 16 and up

This, like last year’s Fotis (& partners in crime) offering The Windblown Cheeks of Lovers, is revealing next to nothing.

But it does say that it’s an improvised one-act play about friends in their 40s and being all alone in the woods - and those friends in their 40s are

Mike Fotis
Rita Boersma
Tim Hellendrung
Nels Lennes
Heather Meyer
Danna Sheridan

Heather and Danna were the hosts of the Fringe previews last night, and the hosts of fake improvised podcasts in last year’s very funny Fringe show Let Me Say This About That.

Mike, Rita and Tim were the trio behind last year’s The Windblown Cheeks of Lovers which very well may have been the thing I laughed at the most in last year’s Fringe, just off the chart ridiculous from start to finish.

Nels is one of the trio of improvisors who launched HUGE Improv Theater so he also knows his stuff, improv comedy-wise.

So, all these people in the same show…?

The likelihood that I’m going to laugh my butt off is incredibly high with this one.

If you need a laugh, it should probably go on your schedule as well.

 

Here's some handy links to this year's Top 10 list and Top 11-20 list, also a full list of all returning favorites to this year's Fringe, plus a link to all the 2024 Minnesota Fringe Festival coverage.

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