Fringe 2025 Top 10 - #9 - simone weil and the (insufferable) existentialist breakfast club - burnt ghost collective

I will freely admit that I have no idea what is going on here.  Just the tiniest journey down the research rabbit hole about Simone Weil has been fascinating, and was probably completely unnecessary for engaging with this Fringe show.  Still, I do enjoy being prodded to learn things I didn’t know before by theater.  Here we go again…

simone weil and the (insufferable) existentialist breakfast club
burnt ghost collective
Venue: TRP

Show Description:
philosopher simone weil never reached the popularity (or notoriety) of her existentialist contemporaries. she did however scare the jesus out of them and go on to shoot fascists in spain. a surreal fever dream of a show starring weil and puppets of jean-paul sartre, simone debeauvoir, and albert camus. by the end we'll hopefully have learned something about the meaning of life and what it means to show up for your community.
 
Genre & Content:
Comedy, Drama, Puppetry, Historical Content, Kid Friendly, Political Content
Warnings: Adult Language, Suicidal Ideation/Self-Harm
 
Is it the lack of capital letters?

Is it the promise of more puppets?

Is it the strange title?

Is it oddly compelling YouTube videos like this brief overview of her life with wild accompanying artwork and a foreign accent?



Or an even briefer video where two professors just talk WAY over my head for six minutes about a woman who died in her early thirties, over eighty years ago, who managed to pack so much of the written word and bold action into her short life that people are STILL talking about her?



There’s zero information on the other tabs of their Fringe page, just the show description, the genre, content and warning tags, the pastel colors of the poster and their tiny little green-eyed black cat mascot.

Just taking a wild swing with this one.  I’ve been pleasantly surprised before by odd concepts.  This might be another one.  We shall see.

 

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.