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The following reviews were submitted by Fringe Member: Ryan Vanasse
Company: Aethem Theatre
Show: Grief, It's What's For Dinner
Venue: Open Eye Theatre
Heartfelt and Personal
In the same way books are important for allowing us to live in someone else's shoes and teaching us empathy, this heartfelt and deeply personal show gives its audience the ability to experience the grief of losing a parent to early stage alzheimers over time and every emotion that goes with that. An impactful show that still manages to be a lot of fun when it's not ripping your heart out, don't sleep on this one.
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Company: Mike Fotis Productions
Show: Rec League
Venue: Strike Theater
Not just a show, an education!
There's not much to this show, in ways. It's not telling an epic story, it's just rec league softball. But somehow the construction of this show still builds an engaging framework on which to get to know the various characters therein. Honestly as someone who has studied improv, I was most amazed by how well-structured this form was and how it enabled building the strong characters and show. If you've ever taken an improv class this was like a lesson in itself for how it was constructed. So impressed by the performers and the form.
Company: LandmanLand
Show: A Sad Carousel 2: The Timely Death of Herschel Douscheburg
Venue: Rarig Stoll Thrust Theatre
The insideriest of insider baseball
I feel like deciding whether or not to recommend this show to someone requires a flowchart that starts with "Do you know who Tyler Michaels King is?" If no, I suspect you'd be more baffled than laughing at this, possibly the most inside-baseball show I've ever seen at Fringe. But if you are inside that baseball, you'd also have been treated to perhaps the funniest show I've seen at Fringe this year. This show has no qualms about flop-sweating its way through as many possible opportunities to make you laugh, whether that's physical comedy, regularly and repeatedly breaking the fourth wall, so many local theater references (some I didn't even recognize), and making you feel so old by acknowledging the 15 year gap* at every turn. (It's telling that the biggest laugh I got was when a reference to HUGE theater caused the whole audience to "AWW") This was the kind of show that was great to watch with an audience of other local theater nerds. *(I honestly can't even remember if I saw the first one in 2010, even if I did go hard on the artist pass that year)
Company: Michael Rogers
Show: That Which Is Green
Venue: The Southern Theatre
A strong core, hard to get into
There is a fantastic relationship story in this show about the long-lived friendship between two men and how their friendship will have to change. This relationship felt real and strong both in the acting and as the story played out. This real, strong heart is buried under a lot of metaphor and artifice that I didn't feel strengthened that strong core, but instead weakened it. Challenging and at times frustrating, I yearned for each morsel of that true relationship. I wanted some of the other metaphorical parts to feel more true. A story worth discussing.