VAMPIRES IN BARCELONA
When he was 22, Brian Cochrane went to Barcelona. Unfortunately, he doesn't give us much of a reason to care that he went to Barcelona when he was 22. In this solo show, Cochrane tells us about meeting a magician who encouraged him to go to a vampire bar. He went. But...
FIX
Performed in Railspur Alley, FIX takes us on a site-specific and interactive journey through addiction—to drugs, smoking, food, even power. It’s also a personal journey: members of the Elegant Ladies Collective share their own stories. The cast includes a variety of...
COCKY
There is something deliciously seductive about witnessing Beth McLaughlin describe things. Her whispery voice, her expressive eyes, her precise cadence: you can practically bathe in her verbal portraits of a childhood Christmas morning or a dog's funeral. Heavenly....
C-
It probably says something regarding American postsecondary education that Eric Jaffe interviewed 65 men about their college experiences and failed to come up with a single fascinating anecdote for his Fringe show. Throughout the hour, Jaffe makes vague reference to...
AL LAFRANCE: I THINK I’M DEAD
About halfway through Al Lafrance’s I Think I’m Dead, I wrote in my notebook: “Things are happening. And he’s talking really fast. But nothing matters.” Then Lafrance turned it around. Big time. In this autobiographical solo, Lafrance covers a lot of ground: the...
POLY QUEER LOVE BALLAD
Like a modern romance, this show feels like it’s making up its own rules as it goes along—and that’s a beautiful thing. In Poly Queer Love Ballad, Gaby (Sara Vickruck) and Nina (Anais West) fall in love with one another—but Nina is bi and poly and Gaby is “the...
JAN & PEG’S RITUAL SACRIFICE
Jan and Peg would like to remind you that this is nota cult. "Not a cult!" the hostesses burble, as they prepare for the Supperware party we've been invited to. (Supperware is like Tupperware, but with more pentagrams.) They also stress that this is nota pyramid...
MARTIN DOCKERY: DELIRIUM
The less acrobatic it is, the better it gets. Fringe storyteller Martin Dockery’s trademark style can be fun. He’s got a raspy, enthusiastic voice and he flaps around so much that sometimes it looks like he’s trying to take off. When he's building a narrative, Dockery...
FORGET ME NOT – THE ALZHEIMER’S WHODUNNIT
"Getting old," retired detective Jim (Rob Gee) muses, "is a bit like getting mugged." Jim is losing his mind and it's coming at a bad time, since he has one final case to investigate: his wife's suspicious death in a dementia ward. Gee is an elastic performer who...
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