5x5
Transatlantic Love Affair
An anthology of five tales in a classic “tréteau” style, keeping the performers in one tiny square on the stage with no sets and no props. The biggest stories in the smallest space.
Venue: Open Eye Theatre Tagged For: Physical Theater, Historical Content, Literary Adaptation, Non-Verbal Content Warnings: Adult Language, Drug Content
Ages 12-15 and up
That’s it.
That’s literally all they’re giving us in terms of content other than the cast & crew bios.
Oh, and the show art also says “5 performers, 5 stories, 1 five foot square.”
But this is Transatlantic Love Affair we’re talking about, so do they really need to say much more than we’re doing a show?
This is a company that bloomed in the Minnesota Fringe Festival in 2010 with Ballad of the Pale Fisherman (and an Ivey Award-winning remount at Illusion Theater), which they followed up Red Resurrected in the 2011 Fringe (and another Illusion remount), and then Ash Land in the 2012 Fringe, and These Old Shoes in the 2013 Fringe, and Solitaire in the 2014 Twin Cities Horror Festival, and 105 Proof; or, the Killing of Mack “The Silencer” Klein in the 2015 Fringe - for starters.
If you’ve seen any or all of those, I don’t need to convince you to go see their new show, do I?
The cast this time around includes familiar faces Derek Lee Miller (who has his own returning solo show The Banana Wars just added to the Fringe schedule) and Allison Vincent (#3 on my Top 10 list this year with her show Daddy Issues), as well as TLA vets Cristina Castro and Peyton McCandless, plus equally notable local actor Mark Benzel, all under the direction of Amber Bjork so… it’s almost not fair to throw a hundred other Fringe shows up against this one. I’m still gonna want to see it, and other shows will have to get in line.
Still no idea what I’m seeing, but given all the artists involved and their collective track records, I’m gonna enjoy myself.
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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Minnesota is currently in the early voting period
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Congress, and the Minneapolis school board on my ballot) - final day to
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