I edited FringeArts’ guide to the Fringe Festival this year, so it feels weird to review festival shows, but I’ve been tweeting my thoughts out after each performance. Check them out and follow more @cpmunden.
Starting with The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation, which was excellent.
This show is excellent and you should see it #phillyfringe19https://t.co/MwflZSLKIE
— Christopher Munden (@cpmunden) September 6, 2019
Then Brown-Eyed Rapunzel
A tender multidisciplinary work: storytelling, puppetry, theater, dance #phillyfringe19https://t.co/TScr04ycic — Christopher Munden (@cpmunden) September 7, 2019
And Annie Wilson’s bilialien
Annie Wilson’s signature smarts and sense of humor mark a weird, affecting Fringe show. #phillyfringe19https://t.co/8zzCpKAuC1
— Christopher Munden (@cpmunden) September 7, 2019
Saturday September 7, I saw three shows. John Rosenberg’s Autopia
Another refreshingly plot-light, character-painting, well-written play from Hella Fresh. I will more plays were like this and more humor was so unforgiving. #phillyfringe19https://t.co/9Xe0jSCjAY
— Christopher Munden (@cpmunden) September 7, 2019
Mariana Arteaga’s Úumbal: Nomadic Choreography for Inhabitants
Strolling; looking around; following happy dancers through a cosy pocket of South Philly #phillyfringe19 https://t.co/mRPuC7WfQd
— Christopher Munden (@cpmunden) September 8, 2019
And PAC’s The Sea Voyage.
Panorama river view, rollicking 17th-century play, fights scenes that bring all the passersby to the windows. #phillyfringe19https://t.co/DOrGMyHn1J
— Christopher Munden (@cpmunden) September 8, 2019
This week I saw the David Lynch–inspired Red Lodge, Montana by The Antidote
The Antidote and its all-Fringe-star cast captures David Lynch’s weird atmosphere, peculiar humor, and creepiness in the expansive Bok basement #phillyfringe19 https://t.co/5QG6Q4uTO3
— Christopher Munden (@cpmunden) September 10, 2019
And the Free Fringe show In Pasta
Imposter (in Pasta) syndrome illustrated by sitting in a paddling pool of spaghetti; sauce ensues. #phillyfringe19 #freefringephillyhttps://t.co/s1UtoQPdWl
— Christopher Munden (@cpmunden) September 10, 2019
Nick Jonczak’s sci fi epic Churn
Nicely acted odyssey thru space and time, as if drawn from the pages of classic sci fi, contemporized and queered. #phillyfringe19 https://t.co/PKzmbB2okc
— Christopher Munden (@cpmunden) September 11, 2019
Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s Come Back, Little Sheba
Tina Brock is superb in a beautifully sad, nicely unrolling work from the annals of classic American theater #phillyfringe19 https://t.co/HaKkUj9jaw
— Christopher Munden (@cpmunden) September 12, 2019
JUNK’s Skein of Heart. Brian Sanders gave a post-show talk about Fringe and JUNK history.
Athletic, sexy dances to hard rock ballads; think pole dancing if the poles were arranged into a labyrinthine steel scaffold #phillyfringe19https://t.co/elj6ljRt2f
— Christopher Munden (@cpmunden) September 13, 2019
Lastly, a one-off Late Night Snacks cabaret performance featuring the inimitable Joseph Keckler, lead artist for next weekend’s Let Me Die.
A flamenco bullfighter and the vocal RANGE, brilliant stylings, and humorous sensibility of Joseph Keckler. Such a talent. #phillyfringe19https://t.co/4r9f80j5vf
— Christopher Munden (@cpmunden) September 13, 2019
Some good Fringe-ing.