FronteraFest 2007 Continues Today
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 - Wed Jan 24 8:00PM at Hyde Park Theatre, $12
The Short Fringe comprises five shows nightly, each up to 25 minutes
like meat love salt by Adrienne Dawes
Commissioned by Austin Script Works. A transgendered youth and zir mentally-retarded cousin fall victim to a game of love and loss in this short alt-folk tale. Featuring St Idiot Collective with Jude Hickey, Thomas Graves, Travis Hale; music by Henna Chou & Adrienne Dawes.
Bigly Huge (Hugely Big)
A fully improvised one-man play based on a few suggestions from an audience member.
Rabid Eye Movement by Kelley Estes
Caution: Never leave the Red Pillow unattended.
Chanteuse, Act I, scene i: “New Talent” by Louise Richardson.
Chanteuse, with music, lyrics and book by Louise Richardson, is a musical about friendship, fame and folk music. The show concerns Johanna Clarke and Darcy Bailey, two young women from Texas, who go to New York’s Greenwich Village to become folk singers in 1959. In the Colloquy Coffee House they meet the proprietor, Sid Feldman, a former stand-up comic. This production is directed by Paula Gilbert and stars Frank Delvy, Angela Finley and Kathleen Fletcher.
Dating Big Poppa E by Eirik Ott
Live and in full colour, performance poet Big Poppa E will randomly select three members of the FronteraFest audience to interview on stage, and, with the audience’s help, will choose one of three contestants to ask out on a real, live date. Along the way, the process of meeting and dating will be examined through painfully funny stories and hilarious poetry examining the joy and agony of dating. Big Poppa E is a five-time “Best of Fest” performer and a three-time HBO “Def Poet.”
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.
St. Nicholas by Conor McPherson (Ken Webster)
In this darkly comic one-man piece about theatre and love by the brilliant Irish playwright Conor McPherson, a theater critic relates tales of his life among the vampires. The Austin Chronicle called it “one hell of a one-man show.”
At The City Theatre, 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D
Cabaret Anna! written and directed by Anna Maria Garcia (Brio Entertainment LLC)
Music by Various Texas Artists
An “experimental” cabaret.
One woman’s odyssey of a bi-polar Tex-Mex mind.
Tickets $10, or $8 for ACOT, students, Sr.’s.
At The City Theatre, 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D
Dance Carousel (Spank Dance Co. and AIC)
The Dance Carousel is a showcase of 10 local dance artists, each creating four 1-minute dances, for a total of 40 one-minute new movement pieces. This dance sampler is the best way an audience can be introduced to modern dance and the massively diverse dance artistry in the Austin community. The show is for dance-lovers and novices alike, folks who love absurd humor and the subtle gestures of dance, for the short attention span and for those who enjoy watching the all the abstract parts of a dance becoming whole. Tickets $8.
At The Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale
Nothing’s On by J. Jimenez Smith (SONAV Productions)
A satirical farce examining popular culture through television, its most powerful conduit. Tickets $8.
At The Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale
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"like meat love salt" photo by Christopher Shea
