The London Fringe Festival has been on since Friday, in case you’re wondering why the near-silence here has been replaced with a complete dearth of posts. If anyone who’s reading this wants some guaranteed fun later this week and over the holiday weekend, you could go further wrong than to check out these fantastic performances:
- in the dark, performed by Eva Blahut. Two days after seeing it, even just thinking about this one brings tears to my eyes. The warning that
This show […] might make some squeamish, especially if you are freaky about eyes
is well-heeded, but in no way are thegraphic medical descriptions
gratuitous. Possibly the best show of the Fringe, and certainly the most affecting. - Poofy du Vey in “Burden of Poof”. The titular clown is sweetly vulgar and completely charming… and I’d say that even without the above-mentioned public smooching. 😀
- The Truth According to Morro and Jasp. These clown sisters are equally smoochable, but unfortunately that’s not a part of their show. Jury duty has never been so hilariously fun!
- Self. As I wrote to a friend,
It’s a ride… to where I’m not sure exactly, but it’s a fun one.
(Maybe Woodstock?) - one tiny pink petal on blue roof in hard rain and A Time to Dance. Two performances centered around movement; the former is best described as an experience, and the latter is an often-surprising biography of the performer’s great-aunt.
Thirty-four shows down, twenty left to go. Wish me luck!
Um – have you actually seen 34 shows??? yikes! That takes frequent fringer to a whole NEW level 🙂
My math skills have fluctuated over the week with my relative wakefulness. 🙂 Thirty-four may have been an overestimate at the time—I was counting backward from the total number of groups, but forgot there are a number of kids performers and buskers (for lack of a better term)—but I’m currently two punches into my fourth ten-show pass and have paid cash for three others, so I guess that’s 35.
hope you guys had a good time today – glad you’ve gotten the parentals to go fringing too! But you’re still loony going to that many shows!! how can you tell them all apart now?? 😀 I hang my head in shame having only seen two at the Winnipeg Fringe this year 🙁
At the end of it all I wound up going to 45 stage performances and six or seven of the tent shows. More to come later….