My Sinking Ship

by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low | 8/4/09 • Well, I loved it. I don't know why more people aren't seeing it. Her first show, All the Things I Never Told My Mother, will always have a special place in my heart. And her last show, I'll Marry You For Health Insurance, remains by far her best-written script to date (albeit one that I struggled with). But this one? Definitely her most entertaining.

womb with a view is the blog of phillip andrew bennett low, one of seven bloggers covering the minnesota fringe festival and other theater for the daily planet.

Basically, it's not much more than a collection of goofy recollections of drunken (and otherwise) debauchery. These are punctuated by a series of crappy, amateurish, kindergarten-theatre-style transitions that I found hysterical. (In particular, the line "Oh, look, everybody -- a music stand!" is a standout.) There's really not much to say that the show description doesn't make abundantly clear. This is one Fringe show that is exactly what it looks like: the best spoken-word in a raft...ever. Nothing more. And nothing less. Phillip Andrew Bennett Low (maximumverbosityonline@gmail.com) is a playwright and poet, storyteller and mime, theater 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 theater troupe that is in a state of constantly re-defining itself.

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