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 - Fri Jan 23 8:00PM at Hyde Park Theatre, $12
The Short Fringe comprises five shows nightly, each up to 25 minutes
SOLD OUT TONIGHT! Waiting list at the theatre starts at 7pm
Having It Out With Frank O’Hara by Liz Jones
Jones revisits her love affair with an enigmatic figure in American art and poetry, dead
twenty years before her birth.
Parachute by Tom Coiner
Two guys fall out of a plane, one determined to kill himself, the other without a working parachute.
Spinning The Bottle by Krissi S. Reeves
Bizarre Love Poems and Existential Anthems for the Cynical Romantic.
Hoover’s Blanket by Rivals
Winner of “Best of Week” at FronteraFest 2006 and voted “Best Sketch Comedy Troupe” by the Austin Improv Collective.
Passion Club by Carolyn and Charley Devany
Comedic drama. Direected by Sherry Mills and starring Shawn Hinkle, Molly Kaufman, and Charley Devany.
Elektra by Will Snider
A short preview of the long fringe piece of
the same name by Gobotrick Theatre Company.
More about tonight's Long Fringe Performances after the jump...
As in past years, ten shows will play at the Blue Theater near 9th and Springdale. But this year, for the first time, ten entirely different shows will play at the brand-new City Theatre at 3823 Airport. At the Long Fringe, you can expect anything from new works by emerging playwrights to cutting-edge choreography.
Synecdoche by M.E.M.E
At The Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale, 7pm $6
In Synecdoche, media blitz collides with five real people in a performance that blends the ennui of the MTV generation with post-technological paranoia. Nitty-gritty guilt and fancy-free spontaneity combine to ask: What are stories? How are they communicated? What has technology done to us? M.E.M.E. is a fiercely innovative collaboration between Genevieve Belleveau, Madeline Best, Andrew Kaluzynski, Alexandra Rosie Rosenberg, and Alex Ward. Please come prepared with questions.
Dolly Would by Zenobia Taylor (The Getalong Gang Performance Group)
At The Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale, 8:45pm $10
Lost? Scared? Confused? Don’t fret. Just ask yourself, “What would Dolly do?” Welcome to Dolly Would, a new dance/theatre work set entirely to the music of Dolly Parton. In it, seven characters stumble, fight and dance their way through a series of obstacles, searching for love, happiness and maybe a little peace and quiet. And with the help of Dolly, they just might find it. Directed and choreographed by Zenobia Taylor
Vivisections of Chaotic Unrest by Uprise
At The City Theatre, 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D, 7pm, $12
What takes root at the intersection of apathy and activism? Vivisections is an exorcise in idiosyncratic insanity. Artists on the brink dissect their volatile instability. Sometimes insurgency is born from the belly of hypocrisy. What are your demons?
photo of Dolly Would's Zenobia Taylor by Spencer Driggers
Austinist is an Official Media Sponsor of FronteraFest 2007
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