A promotional photo for Lysa Sparrow’s First Year Queer, one of 30 Minnesota Fringe shows being previewed on Monday. Photo by Rebecca Jean Lawrence Photography.

Here’s a game to play: how many Fringe titles can you fit into a sentence that still kind of makes sense? A Bollywood Twistery Facility Denial of Service Good Friday caused A Dream Deferred to Blackout Improv. Meanwhile, Couple Fight 3: Weddings! created First Year Queer Fool’s Paradise. Mayor Lear of Townsville thought about the Legend of the Storm and the Gravitational Collapse. Out of the Shadows jumped Patriot/Traitor Sisyphus and Ronald Reagan: Time Traveler. The Heartless Death in Yosemite by Sisyphus led to a cancellation of the Jefferson Township Sparkling Junior Talent Pageant due to receipt of a Manifesto. Stranger-er Things had happened, but after The Tragedy of Obi-Wan, no wanted to be Waiting for Gygax for a Motivational Power Hour.

Feeling a bit lost? Try 3-minute excerpts of each of these 30 shows at the 2017 Minnesota Fringe Festival’s second official preview. This preview (suggested donation: $4) takes place at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities’ Rarig Center Stoll Thrust Stage in Minneapolis on Monday, July 24 at 7:30 PM.

1. Blackout Improv presented by Rogues Gallery Arts
2. A Bollywood Twistery presented by Harmonious Music
3. Couple Fight 3: Weddings! presented by Weggel-Reed Productions
4. De Hjerteløse [The Heartless] presented by WAR Theater
5. Death in Yosemite: A comedic adaptation of the Non-Fiction Book presented by Rooftop Theatre Company
6. Denial of Service presented by Savaali
7. A Dream Deferred presented by Jezebel Theatre Company
8. Facility presented by Imagined Theatre
9. First Year Queer presented by Sparrow Productions
10. Fool’s Paradise presented by Desolate Maude
11. Good Friday: Round One presented by Fat Chance Productions
12. Gravitational Collapse presented by Cole Sarar
13. Jefferson Township Sparkling Junior Talent Pageant: A New Musical presented by Devious Mechanics
14. The Last Bombardment by Oncoming Productions
15. The Legend of the Storm and I presented by R. R. Ronson
16. MANIFESTO presented by MAD Theatre Co.
17. Mayor Lear of Townsville presented by Play-Dot
18. Nowhere in Glass presented by JSB Theatre
19. Out of the Shadows presented by Gabriel Mata/Movements
20. Patriot/Traitor presented by Society for the Preservation of Gravity
21. A Pickle presented by Really Spicy Opera
22. The Pursuit of Awesome presented by Northstarter Productions
23. RomCom-Con: A Meet-Cute Musical presented by August Moon Productions
24. Ronald Reagan: Time Traveler presented by Katherine Glover Presents
25. Sevlin & Devlin Presents: Seven Evans in Heaven presented by Ferrari McSpeedy Theatrical Productions
26. Stranger-er Things: Netflix and KILL presented by Turd Sprout Productions
27. Sisyphus presented by Moon-Eyed Owl
28. The Tragedy of Obi-Wan Kenobi presented by Headcanon
29. Waiting for Gygax presented by Hot Chocolate Media
30. Your Motivational Power Hour! presented by Change! Your! Life! Productions

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Hanne Appelbaum

Hanne Appelbaum was the Editor-in-Chief of the Twin Cities Arts Reader from 2005-2020. Now a contributing writer, she was born in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and moved to the Twin Cities to take up a career as a classroom paraprofessional. She is the mother of three children, an enthusiastic educator, and a passionate fan of dance in all of its forms. She is currently reading Laxmi Hariharan's Knotted Series.

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