FronteraFest Wednesday Features Best of Bill B

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.

The five pieces that make up Best of Fest’s Bill B will play on two nights during the final week of the festival: Wednesday, February 14 and Saturday, February 17. Four were chosen by a panel from all of the Saturday “Best of the Week” shows, and the fifth was determined by vote of the Saturday night audiences.

Short Fringe - Best of Fest Bill B - Wed Feb 14 8:00PM $16.00

Bill B will also be performed on Saturday, February 17. The shows are listed here in the order in which they will be performed.

Bliss by Steven Paul Laing
A ten-minute play employing Brechtian alienation techniques along with theatre of cruelty tactics to assault bourgeois notions of happiness.

The Wussy Boy Manifesto III: in 3-D!! by Eirik Ott
Austin performance poet Big Poppa E wields rhythmic verse, stand-up comedy and dramatic monologue, hilarious skewering pop culture and current events and exploring the painfully beautiful agony of relationships. He has been featured three times on HBO’s “Def Poetry” and is a five-time “Best of Fest” performer at FronteraFest. This is his third collection of performance poetry, and he has no idea which poems he will read, but they will most definitely be funny and moving.

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.

Luna Tart Died (of a broken heart) by Laura Freeman
One woman, one ukulele, one long spiral into despair and loneliness.

The Frank Mills (improv)
A character-driven, emotionally-based slice-of-life play in one act, completely improvised.

Austinist is an Official Media Sponsor of FronteraFest 2007

photo of The Frank Mills courtesy Dave Buckman