FRINGE FILE #6: Reviews, Pt. 3 Arts Comedy Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 10, 2024August 11, 2024 According to the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the following shows are sell-out risks for today: 5 x 5 by Transatlantic Love Affair @ 2:30 p.m. (Open Eye Theatre) A Horse Walks Out Onto the Stage and Dies by Theatre on the Rocks @ 2:30 p.m. (Phoenix Theater) Seance Sisters (Rebecca Wickert) The Fox sisters are marvelous fodder for a play. This specific script starts with some unclear opening exposition, and continues to make assumptions on viewers’ knowledge. As a result, your experience may hinge on prior reading, so read up if you’re going. It rapidly turns to a shouting fest, which is probably funnier after a few drinks. I Favor My Daddy: A Tale of Two Sissies (Jamie Brickhouse) A late middle aged gay man reflects upon his childhood, his father and mother and life in general. Engagingly delivered with poignant material; overall, an amusing listen and twist on the normal coming-out narrative. IMP presents Collidescope (The Improv Movement Project) The staff recommendation for “seeing a show while high”. A physical movement and visual storytelling show, it rewards audiences who come in looking for a taste of something different, are not looking for a show-length narrative, and have nothing distracting on the mind. And, yes, a drink or edible or two seems to make a big difference in show enjoyment. Vile (Francesca Montanile Lyons) According to the official show description, Vile is about “Pizza, Disaster, Butthole! …a funny, surprising, disgusting, and tender clown-and-buffon-driven exploration of muddling through depression, surviving rape culture, and drowning in modernity.” The first three words are certainly worked in there, and if that’s a turnoff after reading, then this show is probably not for you. It breaks a lot of traditional rules, dances around some difficult content, and ultimately comes together as the sort of Fringe theatre experiment that has people talking long after. About Latest Posts Twin Cities Arts ReaderThe Twin Cities Arts Reader is an arts and lifestyles magazine whose coverage examines arts and selected activities in the state of Minnesota and across the country. It provides in-depth, critical arts coverage and reaches more than 600,000 readers per year. Latest posts by Twin Cities Arts Reader (see all) FRINGE FILE #8: The Golden Lanyard Awards - August 13, 2024 FRINGE FILE #7: Reviews, Pt. 4 - August 11, 2024 FRINGE FILE #6: Reviews, Pt. 3 - August 10, 2024 Share on Facebook Share Share on TwitterTweet