Another entry in the “I missed their show last year, but everybody loved it” category, the gents of an alleged Theatre Company - Jake Mierva and Danylo Loutchko, who both wrote and are performing in this year’s offering:
The Temporary Tattoo Trio
an alleged Theatre Company
Written by Jake Mierva & Danylo Loutchko
Venue: Rarig Arena
Show Description:
Minnesota Fringe favorite and three-time “Spirit of the Fringe” award-winner, an alleged Theatre Company returns in 2025 with “The Temporary Tattoo Trio, an absurdist comedy/melodrama.
Three best friends, all named Tyler, work in a traveling show applying temporary tattoos. Their friendship is tested when Tyler realizes that Tyler and Tyler might be hiding something BIG. In this show, not only do audience members get REAL temporary tattoos, but the play also explores how friendships develop as we grow older, and what happens when we feel limited by those we feel closest to.
Genre & Content: Comedy, Drama, Audience Participation
Warnings: Adult Language
These folks landed on my pre-Fringe Top 20 list back in 2019, which was a very weird year for me, but thankfully they had a very weird 5-star show to match, Which Middle Name of Philip Seymour Hoffman Are You? Right after the pandemic pause they were back with 3 Guys On Stage Who Get Hit With Hot Dogs, Snow Cones, Etc., (which I saw), then 2023’s A Swimming Lesson in a Theatre Without a Lifeguard (which I missed, so I’m two for four) and last year they racked up the Golden Lanyard Awards again with A First-Class Comedic Revue Featuring the Reanimated Corpse of a Wright Brother.
The Fringe preview they did was quite charming. The three friends all named Tyler had quite the task at hand as there were far more people who wanted a temporary tattoo in the audience than they had time for in just a three minute preview (thankfully they have almost a full hour for their show’s actual run-time). It was fun watching them balance the random element of audience participation, applying tattoos to the willing volunteers, while also interacting across the stage space with one another.
As Jake said when he reached out by email, “our plays are fun, strange, and experimental in the best possible way.” That sums it up better than me rambling on :)
Also, all the bios of the cast and crew are deeply strange and not really bios at all, so if you need a laugh, you could start there on their Fringe show page, and then go see the show.
Here’s some handy links to my Fringe Top 10, Top 11 to 20 and Returning Favorites lists for this year, as well as all the coverage of this year’s Minnesota Fringe Festival.
As I’m sure many artists are, I find myself struggling with the idea of
just “taking time off” (what a luxury) and submerging myself in a whole
lot of theater for 11 days while the world is on fire so… I’m going to
put some phrases and links down here (and at the end of each post going
forward) and if you find yourself compelled to explore one or more of
them, so much the better. There’s a lot going on, and it can be easy to
get overwhelmed and tune out, but as Congresswoman Sarah McBride
recently said, “If everybody shows a little courage, nobody needs to be a
hero.” I freely admit this list and these links are hardly
exhaustive. It's just something to get started. Do what you can, where
you can, however you can. Let’s help one another get through this.
Contacting your elected officials about the issues that matter to you (and protesting as necessary)
Starvation in the Gaza Strip
Immigration raids around the United States
Ukraine fighting off invasion by Russia
Trans rights
Climate change action
Housing shortage and the unhoused
Reproductive Rights
Voting rights, and running for office
The courts, from the Supreme Court on down to the local level
Don’t forget to laugh - even gallows humor is still humor
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