THE SHORT LIST
Fifty Minutes
After Hours/NY, NY
One year ago this weekend, Jonathan Burton boarded a plane headed for Salt Lake City. When the flight landed, five fellow passengers had him pinned to the floor and he was only moments from death. That's enough to grab one's interest, but there's much more to this story and subsequent drama.
21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com
Mike Daisey/Seattle,WA
This is the New York debut of this nationally acclaimed piece that was featured in Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, and Wired. Next to "Debbie Does Dallas," this is the most hyped piece to appear. Maybe we, (a)(u), can learn a thing or two.
Debbie Does Dallas
Slow-Eyed Productions / New York, NY
A stage adaptation of the classic porn film. No description necessary.
The Adding Machine
Mobius Group / New York, NY
An adaptation of Elmer Rice's classic about the life and death of Mr. Zero, a defective cog in the universal machine. Sounds like a perfect timing for today's post-market-binge culture.
An Apology For The Discourse and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening
Theater Oobleck / Chicago, IL
After skewering Beckett last season with The Complete Lost Works Of Samuel Beckett As Found In A Dustbin In Paris..., Theater Oobleck returns with the truth about Faustus. Sold...for the small price of one's life.
Never Live Long in Cages
The Collection Agency/ NY, NY
A novel adaptation of the fourth act of John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi," this production puts a psychological twist to the centuries-old text by disembodying one of the main characters and presenting the play from the perspective of a character tangled in a nervous breakdown.
A Little Piece of the Sun
Year One Productions / New York, NY
Playwright and director Daniel Kleinfeld presents a theatrical documentary juxtaposing the story of the Chernobyl disaster with the life of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. Juxtapose away.
The Colonel's Wife
EnvironmentalTheatre de Camara / NY, NY
A new play by Mario Fratti ("Nine"). A happening of visual words that fuses with tango, boleros and performance cinema with film verite by Francois Bernadi and music by Francisco Cantilo. Two words: Gotta Dance.
Sic.
Conscious Productions / South Africa
A man famous for his on stage death scene becomes terminally ill and has to face his own mortality for real. Theatre from a real cancer survivor, but it does not really matter because it sounds worth seeing anyway.
Vaudeville's Not Dead. I'm Killing It Every Night!
RJ Lewis / Dover, NJ
One of the stars of Barnum on Broadway in the 1980's comes to FringeNYC with a musical theater piece based on interviews with real vaudeville performers. If the title does not get you, then the list of things Lewis can (and will) do will.
Word Made Flesh
Old School Theater Company / New York, NY
C. Paul Canaday's one-man show pits a boy's born-again Christian upbringing and his growing homosexual awakening against each other. Can the two be reconciled? What 'the church' must deal with in the next two decades made flesh today.
Preview of A Murder
Old School Theater Company / New York, NY
Transferred from the pages of a Robert Leslie Bellum 1949 detective story, "pulp" becomes palpable in this staged detective yarn set to live jazz music. A detective story backed by jazz? ‘Nuff said.
Fever
Loading Zone/ NY, NY
Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" adapted to match and to illustrate the complex emotions and beliefs held by radicals and hippies in the U.S. in 1969. Raskolnikov as Roddy.
A Touch of The Poe
KM Productions/NY, NY
In a solo performance, Kevin Mitchell Martin attempts to reconstruct the human aspect of pyschological writer Edgar Allan Poe's legend.
Son of Nothing
Playwright Trav S.D. returns to the Fringe with a new show, a pyschedelic musical satire about the Manson Family, created in observance of the 30th anniversary of Charlie's sentencing. Springtime for Charlie? Okay, that's saying too much.
