Toneelgroep’s take on these classic screenplays retains all of the rawness of and cruelty of Bergman’s films.
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Category: Fringe reviews
Reviews of theater and performing arts events in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Phindie is providing more critical coverage of the festival than any other publication in Philadelphia.
GROWING INTO MY BEARD (I’ve Seen The Future): 2015 Fringe review 6
Bay Bryan comes out in this heartfelt story of a queer boy learning what is means to be a man.
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THE CAPTIVE (PAC): 2015 Fringe review 5
Although it has lost the shock value (lesbianism!) it had in the 1920s, it is easy to see why PAC were attracted to this forgotten play.
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FIFTY DAYS AT ILIAM (Hannah Van Sciver): 2015 Fringe review 4
This original ensemble-devised piece explores the inspiration and moods of expressionist painter Cy Twombly’s series of canvases on the theme of the Trojan War.
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TILL BIRNAM WOOD… (John Schultz): 2015 Fringe review 3
Shakespeare blindfolded: In the darkness, Shakespeare is illuminated.
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THE SHOPLIFTERS (1812 Productions): 2015 Fringe review 2
An uproarious look into the reasons people steal, and why others chase them
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EXIT THE KING (IRC): 2015 Fringe Review 1
Ionesco’s absurdist tragicomedy on death and the human condition comes to life in Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s hilarious and affecting production.
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Fishtown Fringe Preview #3: A GREAT WAR (Iron Age Theatre)
The latest in a series of previews of shows in the Fishtown Fringe segment of the 2015 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
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The Fringe in nine and a half hours: the Phindie Fringe Bike Tour Diaries (part two)
Nine point five hours, five pieces of theater, ten bicyclists, and no great plan on how we’re gonna eat: that was the format for day two of PHINDIE’S OFFICIAL FRINGE BIKE TOUR.
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DOUBLE BATMAN (Frank Perri): 2014 Fringe Review 87
Frank Perri’s DOUBLE BATMAN is a powerful monologue of loss, withdrawal, and reemergence basically explaining why he is doing a powerful monologue of loss, withdrawal, and reemergence.
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LOVERTITS (Annie Wilson): 2014 Fringe review 86
The topic of Annie Wilson’s LOVERTITS is the female body. But the bodies are at turns irreverent, nonchalant, non-sexualized.
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POE-A-THON (Night Hawks): Fringe Review 85
“Hammy, I said—a bit of a ham.” that’s how a character in POE-A-THON describes Edgar Allan Poe, speaking volumes about the approach taken by Night Hawks.
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SPLICE (Leah Stein Dance Company): Fringe Review 84
In SPLICE, a single flat wave of board whoops its way through the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, which consists of about four rooms, vaguely defined by false walls.
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WOMEN UN PLUGGED (Dretwin Productions): 2014 Fringe Review 83
WOMEN UN PLUGGED is about women and what they say to each other when they think no one is looking.
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BROKEN PEOPLE (David DelBianco): Fringe Review 82
There is quite a lot of yelling in BROKEN PEOPLE, the new show by local actor and playwright David DelBianco.
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FANDO Y LIS (Emily Schuman): Fringe Review 81
Fernando Arrabal’s FANDO Y LIS stands as an exemplar of mid-20th century modernism, alongside other practitioners of the Theater of the Absurd.
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IN THE PONY PALACE/ FOOTBALL (Half Saddle): Fringe Review 80
With dialogue like “I thought this player was a golden unicorn in the last game” the presentation is recognizable, but slightly askew, and ten times more fun
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100% PHILADELPHIA (Rimini Protokoll): Fringe Review 79
Statistics tell us about our city, but the story is fragmentary and incomplete. To fill out the picture, Rimini Protokoll recruited 105 real Philadelphians.
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WETLAND (Mary Mattingly): Fringe Review 78
Since the WETLAND exhibit is a free ‘installation’ piece, we visited, filmed, spoke, and voila: a VIDEO blog.
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WHAT NARWHALS TALK ABOUT WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT LOVE (Grace Mi-He Lee and Leslie Elkins): Fringe Review 77
Grace Mi-He Lee and Leslie Elkins set their work in Lee’s living room of her small home in South Philly in the on-and-off tradition of the Rowhouse Fringe.
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