THE SECOND ANNUAL NEW ORLEANS FRINGE FESTIVAL BEGINS ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11! Pick up next week's Gambit insert for the full schedule and visit www.nofringe.org and www.sidearmgallery.org
This year's festival is bigger and better with over 100 shows from 45 groups from New Orleans and around the country: opera buffa, drama, cryptic revival, physical clown-theater, dark comedy, cabaret, romance noir, shadow puppetry, butoh, hip hop, dance theater, environmental performance, puppet aerial musical and more...
Here's the poop on the Fringe Sidearm shows. Come early and come often! Shows are only $7 cheap.
Homage
Performing Group: FREEFALL
From: New York City
Genre: Dance-Theater
Darkly comic, extravagantly physical, rumination on the themes of love, war and justice. "The New York-based troupe follows in the absurdist footsteps of Beckett and Weill by employing a menacing vaudevillian style...urgent in a rambunctious-sad way. Performers are lovely and engaging even as frightening truths brew underneath." -Chicago Tribune. All ages.
Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/11 9:00 pm, 11/12 7:00 pm, 11/13 7:00 pm
Five Monologues in Search of a Play
Performing Group: Adam Falik
From: New Orleans
Genre: Drama
Five characters testify their part in a conspiracy to perform a play in which a woman carries a human head down a flight of stairs. Five separate monologues conjoin into a panoramic narrative in which the workings of artistic ambition, politics, sexual blackmail, and inner-city survival are woven.
Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/12 9:00 pm, 11/14 5:00 pm, 11/15 9:00 pm
The Danger Angels
Performing Group: Moose Jackson
Performing Group City: New Orleans
Genre: Rock cabaret
Poet Rev. Moose Jackson presents the tale of a down-and-out punk who finds rock and roll salvation on the dark carnival streets of New Orleans. A home-brewed rock cabaret.
Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/11 7:00 pm, 11/14 9:00 pm, 11/15 5:00 pm
He/She & Me: A Love Story
Performing Group: The Academy Theatre Featuring Sharon Mathis
From: Avondale Estates, Georgia
When her soul mate Sam becomes Sheila, Pat asks "Does his soul live in his penis? Is there ever a good day to leave your marriage?" Pat tries tap dancing, Buddhism, and shopping to find out. Audiences call this one woman drama/comedy "marvelous" and "essential".
Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/13 11:00 pm, 11/14 7:00 pm, 11/15 3:00 pm
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