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2017 Seattle Fringe Festival: Cuddling with Strippers

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Nik Doner presented his performance of a genre I would call comedy-memoir to a packed Black Box Theatre crowd this Saturday. Directed by Hannah Victoria Frankin with Hannah Mootz and Hannah Ruwe as exotic dancers to add true-to-lifeness. This show also featured video projection of some of Nik’s home movies and a stretch of a car crash video game as he narrated one particular drunken driving experience.

Part of the charms of attending performance entertainment like Cuddling with Strippers is the safe peek it offers into worlds alien to my own.

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2017 SEATTLE FRINGE FESTIVAL: WHAT WOULD OUR MOTHERS THINK?

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Faulty memories and dangerous politics. Life seen through two generations of women.

One of the early lines from this play is, “People have terrible memories and they’re never happy in the present.” Which could be interpreted as, many people never thoroughly analyze the past and many people conveniently imagine the good old days have passed them by, lamenting the present as the pits.

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2017 Fringe Festival: Savage In Limbo

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When looking over the program for the 2017 Seattle Fringe Festival* three words popped off the page: John. Patrick. Shanley. Yes, Lungfish Productions and Lion. Fish. Theater. Company bring us a play written by the author of Doubt and the movie Moonstruck during his struggling years. Shanley himself was 34 when he wrote about a motley collection of five high school classmates who drift into the same bar, like a joke with no punchline.

Shanley sets this play on a dreary no-action Monday night in an even drearier 1983 Bronx. In 1983, commercial, civic, and political so-called leaders were letting the Bronx literally fall apart, and the lives of these five were stalled as well. As the audience enters Murk (Jared Baron Spears) is well established behind the bar and actually dispensed drinks to the audience, if their tastes ran to wine or beer.

April White (Larissa Schmitz) sits alone folded into herself

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2017 Seattle Fringe Festival: Carry We Openly

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Carry We Openly Asks Just how Absurd can the US Gun Culture Get?

A little over two years ago the writer-director team of Nick Stokes and José Amador premiered Carry We Openly in tandem with Openly We Carry by Paul Mullin at Theater off Jackson. They have revived it for this year’s Fringe Festival* for four performances at the Center Stage in Seattle Center.

Lights up and we find Justice (Stefan Richmand) and his mother Felicity (Abie Ekenezar) frantically looking for It. Eventually, Justice’s grandfather and Felicity’s father, Liberty (Bob Williams) awakens and joins the search. For the duration of the play all the characters look for It, and It never seems to be found. One is not quite clear just what It is. They look everywhere.

Stokes intentionally leaves it unclear

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Seattle Fringe Festival 2017 PREVIEW

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The Seattle Fringe Festival returns March 23 – April 1, for 2 jam-packed weekends of live performances, including scripted theatre, dance, solo performance, burlesque, experimental, performance art, clown, drag, opera, improv and comedy.

Seattle has long had a national reputation as a hotbed for fringe performance. Since the Seattle Fringe Festival’s relaunch in 2012, it has reignited a growing and increasingly diverse audience base of devoted fans, local industry members, curious first-timers, and Puget Sound arts buffs with an adventurous streak. They share a passion for performance where artists push the boundaries of their craft, experiment with form or content, and take artistic risks.

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PREVIEW Les Seagulls

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Seattle’s newest Improv group Les Seagulls will have their Inaugural performance in Seattle at 3:15 at Seattle’s French Fest on Sunday March 19. Headed by Artistic Director, comedian Sébatien Plisson, formerly of San Francisco’s “La D-Boussole.”
The demonstration of improv techniques will be in French. Taking place annually every spring at the Seattle Center, the French Fest, hosted by the Northwest French American Chamber of Commerce, celebrates Francophone cultures. B360C39F-3B98-4478-ADBC-8689E6B9352C

Les Seagulls. The Armory (Center House) Seattle Center, 305 Harrison, Seattle, WA
Sunday March 19, 201. 3:15 to 4. Free.

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Bring Down the House, Part 1: Throne of Treachery

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A country on the cusp of a new era. A polarized political system, with scheming and selfishness pushing things to the point of no return. Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Bring Down the House, Part 1: Throne of Treachery mixes political intrigue and personal ambition in a gripping adaption of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy.
Henry VI, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 may have established Shakespeare’s reputation with their original audiences, but these plays are relatively unpopular today…
Bring Down the House, Rosa Joshi and Kate Wisniewski’s adaption of Henry VI, highlights the strengths of the trilogy, and minimizes its weaknesses…

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SHOT

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    In the world premiere of SHOT, director and choreographer, Donald Byrd, exposes the vulnerability of the Black body

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Book-It Brings ‘Treasure Island’ to the Stage

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Nearly 13 year old Jim Hawkins (Alex Silva) lives and helps out at the Admiral Benbow Inn with his father (unseen) and mother (Gin Hammond). A mysterious stranger, “Captain” Billy Bones (Jim Gall), arrives and asks Hawkins to keep a look out for a man with a wooden leg. But Bones is found, and he gets first one and then a second unwelcomed visit by pirates looking for him and the map he holds of buried treasure.

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