FronteraFest 2007 Opening Tonight! This Time - It's For Real!
NOTE: Tonight’s pieces are now listed in the order in which they will be performed. There will be an intermission between the third and fourth pieces.
That's right: it's time to heat up your winter nights again, with the 14th season of FronteraFest. The Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, or Mi Casa es su Teatro -- FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre presented by Hyde Park Theatre and Austin Script Works.
For complete FronteraFest 2007 information, including times and locations for the Short Fringe, the Long Fringe and Mi Casa es su Teatro, and to purchase tickets, visit the FronteraFest website.
Short Fringe - Tue Jan 18 8:00PM at Hyde Park Theatre, $12
The Short Fringe comprises five shows nightly, each up to 25 minutes
Riverview Ritz by Candyce Rusk.
For most of the 20th century, Chicago’s Riverside Park was a premiere cultural and entertainment destination for the masses. Next to the world’s largest amusement park, circa 1949, sits a ramshackle rooming house filled with Riverside’s underbelly: the employees. Tough, colorful and tinged with sorrow, this play looks in at the lives of LaFayette, target man for the African Dip dunking game, and Jacek, a Polish immigrant, as they navigate the rocky waters of a changing America. Riverview Ritz briefly exposes the lives of those charged with helping others to “laugh your troubles away”.
Mamas’ Boy Magnet by Anna Maria Garcia
A Freudian Mini Opera about getting dumped.
The Rubric by Cris Edwards.
There is an algorithm here.
Yellow Line by Meg Haley
A collage-style piece that mixes traditional dialogue with spoken-word style monologues to bring the audience inside the cars and minds of nine people who pass one another in traffic on one arbitrary day, and how they may or may not affect each other’s lives.
A Modern Day Duel by Marc Frost.
An expressionist tragicomedy.
My Name is Art by Peter Snoad (the vestige group).
At a modern art museum, a plumber and an architect debate the merits of a massive installation of Styrofoam boxes. Is it art? Crap? Democracy in action? Enter a man called Art . . .
Austinist is an official media sponsor of FronteraFest 2007
Photo by anyjazz on flickr
