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I AM JOHNNY
5 stars – clever drag parody. If Johnny had a profile on a dating app, I imagine it like this: a selfie of his face (from below), a selfie in the gym flexing muscles, a selfie in the gym leaning against the machine and tilting up his chin; description: ‘Just a simple guy from the…
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The Body I Left in Susquehanna National Forest
4 stars – queer absurdist dark comedy AKA such a strange, funny play. Like the title promises. Patrick and Claire are still wearing accessories from their wedding ceremony and are driving to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon. It’s late, it’s dark, they are tired, and the car ends up in a ditch, not before having…
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Democrazy
3 stars – fun (and a little lesson on being a citizen). A tourist sunbathes in Bali and projects the Western stereotypes that make us enjoy those kinds of holiday so much: soft sand, blue sea, fresh exotic drinks, you name it. All this, while we completely and willingly ignore the struggles of the locals.…
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Puttana / W***e
4 stars – powerful and intimidating performance. Laura is not yet 24, she still owns a huge teddy bear, and she gets paid for sexual services. This makes her a sex worker. Right? A whore, like someone calls her… On a stage populated by microphones, Laura tells her story in a scattered and violently poetical…
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Constellations
2 stars – a minimal constellation. A man and a woman meet at a barbecue. Roland is a beekeeper; Marianne is a quantum physicist. Their meeting is the event that opens a range of possibilities, in multiverse theory. In one universe, they go home together, in the other they don’t. In a universe they get…
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Creep
4 stars – A hilarious lowdown of creepy screenshots. One of the hottest Fringe shows this year – a fully sold out run with newly added dates gone before you blink twice – is a one-woman piece by Harriet Richardson, a multidisciplinary performance artist, who opens by humbly admitting she’s not a comedian nor an…
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The Unwilling Accomplice
3 stars – a bit of blood and a bit of laughter. Riley and Emily are sisters, but their living together is threatened by Riley’s hobby: she is a serial killer. Her sister wants to move on (and out of the flat), but Riley won’t let it happen so easily…
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Double Take
5 stars – mime at its best Two mimes, seven acts, endless creativity. With expressivity, imagination, and acumen, they guide the audience on a journey from laughter to sighs (or tears, for many of us) and to laughter again.
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Swoon
5 stars – A satirical 19th century masterpiece. Bebe Cave, an established tour-de-force of a comical character actress, returns to the Fringe with another whirlwind of an original, meticulously detailed, incredibly funny, feminist piece called Swoon.
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The Late Utopians
3 stars – between rave and storytelling. Rave music, check. Laser lights, steam, check. A tormented romance? Also check. Ready to embark onto a solo storytelling show about New York rave scene.
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Zero Minus One
3 stars – zero plus one plus one. A stand-up comic cum actor has something happen to him… and not just something, no everyday-minutiae-sort-of-story, but a rare case of amnesia, for 18 full months, to be exact. The next thing we know is, naturally, a 60 minute comedy/theatre show loosely based around it.
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The Bloody Ballad of Bette Davis
3 stars – Almost Camp. Bloody Ballad of Bette Davis by the Brooklyn-based company Piper Theatre Productions is a musical theatre piece built around the curiously bizarre premise that Bette Davis, the undying Hollywood legend, may or may not have been a witch.
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