Avant-Garde Theater Tickets
Posted by Doug in Arts, Entertainment at 1:00 pm I was all abuzz about receiving my Theater Tickets to the avant-garde theater event: Fringe Theater Festival in Washington D.C. My friends managed to see several shows yesterday. They called me up and told me how much fun they had. They were trying to describe one show where two women, dancing up and down and then hanging from the ceiling. They told me they couldn’t wait for me to join them so that we may see many different kinds of performers, in so many different kinds of venues.
The intriguing part about the Fringe Theater Festival is you don’t know if you’ll pick a performance that could be great or that it could be atrocious. My friends told me at one small theater, the audience, one by one, made it’s way into a 30-seat black box room, and they were so close to the actress performing that they could, if they wanted to, reach our and touch her hair that was pinned up in the style of the 1940′s. In the play, she was reminiscing about the post World War II in London.
On another stage, my friends, an actor went on about how she left a bar late at night by herself, that was the play, her telling a story about her bar experience, but that the audience was spellbound by the story. In another theater, a tall fellow wearing blue jeans and a cowboy hat, acting all like John Wayne.
The Fringe Theater Festival, is suppose to be like the original Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where for 3 weeks in the months of August and September, Edinburgh is turned into a theater heaven where 1000 shows are being performed everyday, morning, noon and night in any venue they can find. The Fringe started up when actors were excluded from the traditional theater event, so they would camp outside the event and do their own performances, on the fringe, and all the performances were off-beat, edgy, political and avant-garde. And now, D.C. has it’s own Fringe. I’m looking forward to being a participant in tomorrows off-beat and edgy performances.
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