Roofies in the Mochaccino
Womb With a View is the blog of Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, one of five bloggers covering the Minnesota Fringe Festival for the Daily Planet.
Much of his comedy hinges on pop-culture references, and there's a real artfulness to it -- there's a reason that one word will work where another won't, and it has to do with both the sound that it makes and the image it evokes -- there's a reason "Jim Morrison" is the right joke where "Jimi Hendrix" wouldn't be. There's also a surprising sentimentalism here, underneath all of the filthy, filthy jokes, and at least one piece that seems to be played almost totally straight. Glancing around at his audience numbers, I hope that he's not on the way to becoming another Dean Hatton -- a brilliant, funny, hardworking performer who just can't seem to get an audience. I'm sincerely baffled -- this guy should be a Fringe hit, and I don't understand why he isn't. Is it the poetry stigma? Is that all it is? Because that's pretty lame. Phillip Andrew Bennett Low (maximumverbosityonline@gmail.com) is a playwright and poet, storyteller and mime, theatre critic and libertarian activist, who lurks ominously in the desert wilds of St. Louis Park, feasting upon the hygienically-prepared flesh of the once-living. His main claim to fame is probably as co-founder of the Rockstar Storytellers, and as founder/producer of Maximum Verbosity, a garage-band-like theatre troupe that is in a state of constantly re-defining itself.













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I'm thinking it's the show title
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