Yes, yes, yes! From the opening scene to the the final blackout, Pussy R.E.P.’s production of That Kind of Girl delights, titillates, enlightens, and sears in pure peppy, poignant perfection. This stirring ensemble piece explores what it means to be female in the 21st century, and its spirit and message are infectious and cathartic.
Archives for July 2014
Capt. Tickle Britches
There’s no laugh track in Capt. Tickle Britches. In fact, you can hear the crowd at the bar in the Fort Fringe tent buzzing in the background of the performance. But this play, a series of sketches presented by Guerilla DC, managed to deliver some solid guffaws from a late-night audience all the same.
Everybody Knows This Is Now Here
Capital Fringe is known for its no-frills, stripped down performances – turning various makeshift spaces into stages across the city. But minimal does not mean Spartan, especially in the case of Everybody Knows This Is Now Here, a contemplative multimedia dance performance that reaches across distance – and artistic mediums – to explore 21st century […]
Walken in His Shoes
Okay, this show is better than it sounds. Four pathetic misfits – the squeaky-voiced Jerry Lipkin (Brandon Howell), the odiferous misogynist Spider Chavez (Ruben Rosthenhausler), the effete, self-absorbed Preacher Sanders (Luke Howell) and Hi Gronowski (Michael Howell) – I don’t know what he is – induct the newest member, Chris Ronald (Stephanie Howell) into the […]
Medea’s Got Some Issues, a Fringe Peek at an hilarious tragedy from No Rules
In Medea’s Got Some Issues – written by Emilio Williams and produced by No Rules Theatre Company – Lisa Hodsoll takes on seven roles in an acting tour de force that combines humor, hysteria, and catharsis to tell the Medea tragedy like you’ve never seen it before.
Antigone
Wandering Theatre Company’s Antigone opened, as one might expect, with a chorus. The two chorus members (Clemmie Evans and Jenna Krasowski) are clear, haunting, and deliver their lines in-sync about a third of the time.
TAME.
Sylvia Plath, the quintessential female voice in the face of 20th century patriarchy, serves as a chilling foil to the heroine in Jonelle Walker’s TAME. The tragic poet’s voice fills the space during scene changes, reminding the audience of the constrictive world in which her onstage counterpart is struggling to survive.
Perfect Liars Club
With brand-new storytellers sharing their perfectly plausible (or completely unbelievable!) life adventures each night, showrunner and emcee Layla McCay throws out the following challenge to the audience: can you spot the liar?
The Hello Girls: Unknown Heroines of WWI
I’m angry. There, I’ve said it. I’m angry. Most young girls aren’t raised to be angry. Many other things, yes, but angry, no. So to enter the world, and begin to get the feeling that gender equality is still a struggle, playing fields aren’t always equal, and women are mistreated on a shocking, global scale, […]
Everything I Do
Although this staging of John Becker’s well written musical has its moments of brilliance, it suffers from one endemic problem: a generally inexperienced cast.
Stone Tape Party
The party is already well underway when the audience walks into the Sprenger Theatre. The cast of Stone Tape Party is drinking, dancing, laughing, and singing along to the Counting Crows, as audience members are immediately welcomed to the party. A guy in a robe is chasing a girl in her underwear, and everyone is […]
The Man in the Desert
The lights dim as an eerie stringed arrangement blankets the audience in a veil of unease. It darkens further as a man dressed in black, priest-like garb takes long, confident strides to the stage. The slowly reawakening lights abate the tension to reveal the man and a chair, almost to induce the experience of the […]