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2018 Audience Reviews
Member Reviews
The following reviews were submitted by Fringe Member:
Company: Snikt! Bamf! Thwip!
Show: A Family Friendly Pulp Fiction (Not Appropriate for Families)
Venue: Theatre in the Round
modern fiction
If you've seen Tim Wick's mostly tasteless lowbrow pop culture parodies before and you like them, then this is a winner for you - definitely among his better work. I've you've never seen a Tim Wick show before, but "mostly tasteless lowbrow pop culture parody" sounds like your idea of a good time, I highly recommend it!
Company: The Coldharts
Show: Eddie Poe
Venue: Ritz Theater Mainstage
I've been diddled in the best way!
There are some companies at Fringe where I'll reflexively watch anything they do, knowing it'll be awesome. The Coldharts are one of them. I've been a fan of their work since before they were the Coldharts, going all the way back to Rooster Donkey Cat Dog about eight years ago. Eddie Poe might be their best work I've seen. It carries on their work from Edgar Allen, but in a whole new direction, portraying him as a split personality. Nick Ryan's deadpan delivery as Eddie is the perfect contrast for Katie Hartman tearing around the stage and through the audience as a half-dozen other characters, sometimes switching roles onstage with nothing but a sudden lighting change. She's an extraordinary performer.
Company: Concrete Drops
Show: Inescapable
Venue: Augsburg Mainstage
I lucked into this one
I decided to see this on description, not realizing I'd seen Martin Dockery perform before. Good luck for me! It's the same hyper-intensity, hyper-speed, psychedelic existentialist dialogue I expect from him, but this time as a dialog with another actor (who somehow managed to keep up). Would be a five star, but I knocked it half a star for the poor costuming. The setting is a Christmas party at a rich man's house, they should be better dressed than just battered jeans and t-shirts - it was off enough to be distracting. But full points for writing and performance!
Company: Iris Papyrus Productions
Show: Teenage Subterfuge
Venue: Rarig Center Arena
touching, surprising family drama
This play punches you right in the feels. It's a world where a child is learning to navigate the world without the support she needs from her flawed, selfish parents, and where those parents need to learn (or fail to learn) to accept her as a peer, rather than a ward. It's unrelenting and unflinching in its emotional honesty, and I was on the verge of tears more than once. The staging is structured in an openly theatrical, almost surrealistic manner, a strong contrast to the raw, human nature of the dialogue. Kudos to the cast, too, who did fine work all around.