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Maureen O’Rourke, or Mo as she is known to friends and foes alike, is a junior at the Catholic University of America studying Drama and English. She enjoys theater that is densely macabre and painfully hilarious in the same stroke. In addition, she possesses a particular fanciful fondness for alliteration.

The Oresteia

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5redfringe2 Mo rates it:

Thank the gods- the gods of Rock,  that is – for Dizzy Miss Lizzy’s Roadside Revue’s vivacious show. With their amps cranked up to 11, the cast of The Oresteia, based on the Greek tragedy [Read more...]

Sari to Skin

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3redfringeMo rates it:

“I’m too Indian to be American
I’m too American to be Indian
I still want a nation, please.”

So begins Neelam Patel’s poem, [Read more...]

The Girl Who Waters the Basil

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2redfringeMaureen rates it:

A pocket opera, according to the program, contains “one scale; four voices and three players”. The Girl who Waters the Basil and the Inquisitive Prince follows this traditional form  as it tell the tale [Read more...]

Cabaret Carousel: Berlin and Broadway

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3redfringeMo rates it:

Despite being on the literal ‘fringe of Fringe’ as Source theater’s producing artistic director, Carla Hubner put it, the festival spirit is clearly alive and well in Cabaret Carousel. [Read more...]

Bag Lady

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3redfringeMo rates it:

Who is the bag lady? That is the question that Sanctuary Theater attempts to answer in the aptly named one-woman show. As Clara, the bag lady, begins to empty out the contents of her bag, [Read more...]

Closet Land

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4redfringeMo rates it:

Who doesn’t love a dystopian, tyrannical government? I know I sure do.

Though the central character of the Molotov Theater Group’s production of Closet Land may not share my zeal for Orwellian authority and who can really blame her? [Read more...]