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FRINGE FILE #6: Reviews, Pt. 3


According to the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the following shows are sell-out risks for today:


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.

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