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Fringe-For-All 1—The Visitor, or From Here To Angina

by Matthew A. Everett • July 24, 2008 • "You buried yourself alive, but you didn't forget the rouge." The Visitor, or From Here To Angina Minnesota Shakespeare Company "Lovely woman visited by suitor from neighboring farm. They talk of land and money while their longing for each other fulminates into angina and rage. Accompanied by a live band." MORE »

Fringe-For-All 2—Hey, I'm Talking Murder Here

by Matthew A. Everett • July 23, 2008 • "You're not here because of your pasty white ass." Next to last Fringe-For-All 2 act - Hey, I'm Talking Murder Here "Three twisted tales of revenge and murder set in an unexpected future and featuring a bewildered clone, homicidal robot and a couple of talking dogs. Rod Serling, eat you heart out!" MORE »

Fringe-For-All 1—59 Minutes Til the End

by Matthew A. Everett • July 23, 2008 • "I've never been my ideal body weight!" As pleas for one's life go, not bad. Original. The first preview of the whole Fringe-For-All two-part craziness was 59 Minutes 'Til The End "A 49-minute show that knows we all die a little every day. Laugh, cry and sing (optional, very optional) to the stories and songs of one man's deaths and rebirths. It's the feel-good funeral of August." MORE »

Fringe-For-All 2—Among the Oats

by Matthew A. Everett • July 23, 2008 • "I like the versatility of duct tape" Last act of the Fringe-For-All double feature - Among The Oats "Three guys wake up and find themselves inside of a can of oatmeal." So, sort of like Waiting For Godot, with oatmeal. No Exit, with fiber. MORE »

Fringe-For-All 1 and 2—Traffic lights

by Matthew A. Everett • July 23, 2008 • There are warning lights at Fringe-For-All. The performers see them, and the audience sees them. And the audience holds the performers to them. With thirty acts to get through in a night, ya' gotta keep things moving briskly along. Everyone get their fair shot. Everyone gets three minutes, and only three minutes - no matter how hard they try. The applause will drown you out. You are politely told you're done and it's time to leave - by a room full of people. MORE »

Fringe-For-All 2—My turn

by Matthew A. Everett • July 20, 2008 • So, I'm about to know what everyone else on display the other week felt, doing Fringe-For-All, having your Fringe show judged based on a sample lasting under three minutes long. It's easy to make a bad impression. Harder to make a good or lasting one. MORE »

Card shark—Snail mail edition

by Matthew A. Everett • July 20, 2008 • A few Fringe show cards even still come in the regular mail. And I'm always happy to see something in my mailbox at the end of the day other than bills, believe me. Newbies to my card pile... MORE »

Card shark—Library edition

by Matthew A. Everett • July 20, 2008 • Doing the Fringe playwrights panel this past Monday at one of the St. Paul libraries, I picked up another show card I didn't yet have... Roofies in the Mochaccino MORE »

Card shark—Guthrie edition 1 and 2

by Matthew A. Everett • July 20, 2008 • One my day jobs is in the box office at the big blue theater by the river. One perk, every year when the Fringe programs are first being printed, a stack ends up at Stage Door, before it appears in City Pages. For a Fringe addict, such as myself, this is manna from heaven. (Yes, I know, there are no words for how sad I am, nonetheless...) MORE »

Card shark—Fringe-For-All 1 edition

by Matthew A. Everett • July 20, 2008 • Ah, Fringe season, when the show cards are in full bloom. I had to get in the action myself this year, pimping my own show. But as a Fringe addict myself, I delight in swooping down on the tables full of cards and making sure I have one of everything, so I can peruse them and find details that haven't made their way online or into the program yet.MORE »
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