#fringe theater

[emilyschooley]

Closed with a sold-out show and then won best Family Fringe.

What a way to wrap out this show (for now...)

[faelovesthings]

I SAW THE BEST SHOW AT THE THEATRE FESTIVAL IM AT. IT WAS THE FIRST SHOW WE SAW AND IT WAS SO GOOD

[shakespearenews]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/theater/edinburgh-fringe-what-to-see.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B04.dBga.BJMPejYBivyL&smid=url-share

I generally have a “no Shakespeare” rule during the festival (you can see his plays anywhere!), but would make an exception for the Peruvian company Teatro La Plaza’s take on “Hamlet,” which is playing in Edinburgh as part of the International Festival, rather than the Fringe (The Lyceum; Aug. 15 through 17). This staging of the Bard’s most popular tragedy features rap and improvisation, and is performed in Spanish with English supertitles by an eight-person cast, all of whom have Down syndrome.

[justarandombrit]

On today's episode of, there's a musical about basically everything;

Have you ever wished you could see two true crime fanatics actually solve a murder, rather than talking about them on podcasts? Now you can!

Are you a Great British Bake Off fan? We got you covered.

Do you... Like public bathrooms? That's... Yeah we have that too!

Donald Trump with some sort of artistic subversion that I couldn't figure out? You bet we have it.

(Not technically a musical, but) Lesbians;; can sing... So... That's cool.

Musicals, in order:

Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! (by Jon Brittain and Matthew Floyd Jones) | Great British Bake Off: The Musical (by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary) | Public - The Musical (by Kyla Stroud) | Trump L'oeil: The Musical (by Henry Parkman Biggs) | The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (by Iman Qureshi)

[kamehamehamlet]

Play-Dot Archives: Poster PPG

Last week I shared two posts about posters we put up for KamehameHamlet in 2015.

But dare I share the poster we put up at Convergence in 2017...

Play-Dot Presents: Mayor Lear May (week)

For this last week of May, I'll be sharing some archival images and more from our 2017 award winning* show Mayor Lear of Townsville!

Remember if you have questions about Kamehamehamlet or Mayor Lear, you can always stop by our weekly rally stream on YouTube!

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Anthony Perkins in "Look Homeward, Angel," which played at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre from November 28, 1957 to March 7, 1959, and then moved to the 54th Street Theatre from March 9 to April 4, 1959. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1958 for playwright Ketti Frings, based on the novel by Thomas Wolfe.

Photo: Friedman-Abeles via NYPL

[lesbiansovereverything]

"No Strings" - Dance Number from BETTER OFF WITH YOU, a new musical that recently premiered at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival. (Watch with captions).

tl:dr - There are lesbians in it!

[marjorierose]

Fringe Report part 4: monsters again

Gilgamesh, written by Charlie Bethel, performed by John Heimbuch

If you have recently suffered a loss, you could make worse choices than to have someone tell you the story of Gilgamesh in a nearly empty theater late at night, and to listen to what the Mesopotamians of three thousand years ago already understood and that you have only recently started to comprehend.

This is a one-man storytelling show, with the same author and same performer as 2019's Beowulf. This one was maybe even better. It had a very different mood: while the original Beowulf poem has a lot of meditations on mortality, they didn't feature much in the show, which instead was mostly about character and heroism. Gilgamesh starts out as a hero king too, but death arrives and he spends the majority of the story trying to challenge it. And it's so futile. The challenges simply cannot be surmounted. The most striking thing about the show was how definitively Gilgamesh succeeded early on--his challenges are almost too easy, and he's lord of the known world, with a best friend by his side--and how clumsily and hopelessly he failed against the absolute truth of death. It's an epic story, but the core of it is heartbreakingly beautiful in its simplicity. I kind of wanted to say more to the performer, as I was leaving, than "thank you," but that was all I could come up with.

This show was also a lot hornier than Beowulf.

[alexyquest]

hey mutuals who live in the Philly area, or anywhere in the northeast — I wrote a play and you can come see it 😳 showing 9/4, 9/6, and 9/9 at Fidget in Philly

produced by @strongbranchpro

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

the overture of jesus christ superstar is a bit misleading tbh bc it’s just three minutes of music that feels like it belongs in front of a musical about alien abductions.

[nicklloydnow]

"Two Modern Noh Plays" by Yukio Mishima presented by Midtwenties Theater Society & 2019 Vancouver Fringe Festival

“POET: Listen to me. . . . I am just what I seem, a threepenny poet, without even a woman who'll look at me. But there's something I respect-the world as reflected in the eyes of young people who love each other, a hundred times more beautiful than what they actually see—that I respect. Look, they're not the least aware we're talking about them. They've climbed up high as the stars. You can see the glint of starlight under their eyes, next to the cheeks. . . . And this bench, this bench is a kind of ladder mounting to heaven, the highest lookout tower in the world, a glorious observation point. When a man sits here with his sweetheart he can see the lights of the cities halfway across the globe. But if (climbs on the bench) I stand here all by myself, I can't see a thing. . . . Oh, I do see something—lots of benches, somebody waving a flashlight—must be a policeman. A bonfire. Beggars crouching around the fire. The headlights of a car. They've passed each other now and are heading toward the tennis courts. What was that? A car full of flowers. Performers returning from a concert? Or a funeral procession? (He gets down from the bench and sits.) That's all I can see.

OLD WOMAN: What rubbish. Why in the world do you respect such things? It's that same silly nature of yours which makes you write sentimental poems that nobody will buy.

POET: And that's exactly why I never invade this bench. As long as you and I are occupying it, the bench is just so many dreary slats of wood, but if they sit here it can become a memory. It can become softer than a sofa, and warm with the sparks thrown off by living people. . . . When you sit here it becomes cold as a grave, like a bench put together out of slabs of tombstones. I can't bear that.

OLD WOMAN: You're young and inexperienced, you still haven't the eyes to see things. You say the benches where they sit, those snotty-faced shop clerks with their whores, are alive? Don't be silly. They're petting on their graves. Look, how deathly pale their faces look in the greenish street light that comes through the leaves. Their eyes are shut, the men and women both. Don't they look like corpses? They're dying as they make love. (Sniffs around her.) There's a smell of flowers, all right. The flowers in the park are very fragrant at night, just like those inside a coffin. Those lovers are all buried in the smell of the flowers, like so many dead men. You and I are the only live ones.

POET: (Laughs.) What a joke! You think you're more alive than they are?

OLD WOMAN: Of course I do. I'm ninety-nine years old, and look how healthy I am.

POET: Ninety-nine?

OLD WOMAN: (turning her face into the light) Take a good look.”

“OLD WOMAN: I know what the face looks like of someone who's come back to life—I've seen it often enough. It wears an expression of horrible boredom, and that expression is what I like. . . . Long ago, when I was young, I never had the sensation of being alive unless my head was all awhirl. I only felt I was living when I forgot myself completely. Since then I have realized my mistake. When the world seems wonderful to live in, and the meanest little flower looks big as a dome, and flying doves sing as they go by with human voices . . . when, I mean, everyone in the whole world says "Good morning" joyously to everyone else, and things you've been searching for ten years turn up in the back of a cupboard, and every girl looks like an empress . . . when you feel as if roses are blooming on the dead rose trees, then—idiotic things like that happened to me once every ten days when I was young, but now when I think of it, I realize I was dying as it happened. . . . The worse the liquor, the quicker you get drunk. In the midst of my drunkenness, in the midst of those sentimental feelings and my tears, I was dying. . . . Since then, I've made it a rule not to drink. That's the secret of my long life.

РОЕТ: (teasing her) Oh! And tell me, old lady, what is your reason for living?

OLD WOMAN: My reason? Don't be ridiculous! Isn't the very fact of existing a reason in itself? I'm not a horse that runs because it wants a carrot. Horses, anyway, run because that's the way they're made.”

- Yukio Mishima, ‘Sotoba Komachi’ (1956)

[emilyschooley]

Just a lil update from the current creative project...

These days, I'm posting more regularly over on my Patreon!

[lovejam]

Out of the Show

Due to scheduling conflicts, I’m no longer involved in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Good luck to the cast and crew of the fringe run. You’re all very talented folks and I wish you all the best.

[wherebettertoescape]

Welcome!

Hello! We are two friends living in the UK, loving all things stage and theatre. As our other friends are all very tired of hearing our endless discussions on the subjects of casting, costume and choreography we have decided to move our debating over to the realm of the internet. Join us as we (over) analyse creative decisions made in our favourite plays, along with plenty of screaming and most likely a lot of tangents (and tears). We’ll be writing reviews and analyses of the productions that we watch, alongside some more general discussions about our experiences within the theatre community.

Louise 🦕 (she/her)

Favourite Musicals: Falsettos, Jersey Boys, Singin' in the Rain (subject to change depending on the day)

First Musical: Jersey Boys

Our Background Newsie: Bart

Favourite Shakespeare Play: Much Ado About Nothing

Most Recent Theatre Visit: Jersey Boys

Freddie 🐸 (she/they)

Favourite Musicals: Newsies, Ordinary Days, Hadestown (subject to change depending on the day)

First Musical: Matilda

Our Background Newsie: Finch

Favourite Shakespeare Play: Much Ado About Nothing

Most Recent Theatre Visit: A Little Life

[rndyounghowze]

[maurviicurtains]

Black fringe curtain in a range of colour with an elegant gold trim. An interesting and alternative fabric that will add a touch of texture to your living room.