As their Fringe preview can attest, complete with tiny sailor outfits, virus puppets, miniatures, and dance moves, this crew knows how to create a catchy theme song to launch their improv comedy adventures.
MicroMedics
WetSplat
Directed by Ari Newman and Will Schroeder
Venue: Strike Theater
Show Description:
No one likes being in the hospital - what if the hospital was in YOU? MicroMedics turns a gnarly bruise into a pleasure cruise! Climb aboard the world’s first medical submarine cruise ship that’s really little. Hop aboard the world’s smallest medical submarine, manned by very little doctors! Shrink down! See the sights! Cure disease! Fall in love? Committed enough to build puppets and costumes, but not enough to write a script, this improv show will send you straight to urgent care! Your life will never be the same.
Genre & Content:
Comedy, Improv, Original Music, Puppetry, Sci-Fi
Warnings:
Adult Language, Violence, Gun/Weapon Usage
So the crew that landed on my pre-Fringe Top 20 list in 2023 with their literary crime-stopping team in 20,000 Leagues Under The Telltale Heart are back again, this time taking an idea as old as Fantastic Voyage, and as weird as InnerSpace and giving it their own 21st century spin. They’re not promising LGBTQIA+ content this time, so it’s more a heterosexual super-tiny Love Boat than the homoerotic tension for laughs we got last time. More goofy fun will no doubt ensue, given the potential of this source material, which was always easier to laugh at than take seriously.
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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