2019 Fringe Festival Teaser

SEPTEMBER 5–22

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Fringe Festival Box Office FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard (at Race) Philadelphia, PA 19106 Pre-Festival Hours August 26–September 4 11am–5pm Festival Hours September 5–22 11am–8pm

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Three weeks of world-class performances and Fringetastic events Facing page: Anne Van Aerschot. Cover: Ishka Michocka.

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September 5–22 Philadelphia

Bruce Jackson

Jauhien Sasnou / Picturebox Creative

The B-Side:

Superterranean

“Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons”

PIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY / MIMI LIEN

A Record Album Interpretation THE WOOSTER GROUP

World Premiere

SEPT 5–8

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SEPT 5–15

2300 Arena

THEATER >> MUSIC

140 North Columbus Boulevard

THEATER

2300 South Swanson Street

An original performance based on a 1965 LP of work songs, spirituals, and toasts recorded in segregated Texas state prison farms.

The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation has been made possible in part by support from the Independence Foundation.

Navigate underground architecture, hidden networks, and built environments that dictate human behavior in a new work of visual theater conceived by MacArthur Fellow and Tony-winning designer Mimi Lien with Fringe veterans Pig Iron Theatre Company.

Major support for Superterranean has been provided to Pig Iron Theatre Company by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

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Antonieta López

Paula Court, courtesy of The Kitchen

Úumbal

Is This A Room

Nomadic Choreography for Inhabitants

Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription TINA SATTER / HALF STRADDLE

MARIANA ARTEAGA

Co-presented with the Annenberg Center U.S. Premiere

SEPT 7, 13 + 14

Begins on 5th Street

SEPT 13–15

Annenberg Center

DANCE

between Shunk and Oregon

THEATER

3680 Walnut Street

Philadelphia is the choreographer. Its streets the setting. Its people the dancers. Join a nomadic performance through a South Philly neighborhood.

Lead support for Úumbal: Nomadic Choreography for Inhabitants has been provided by The William Penn Foundation.

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June 2017. FBI agents pay a surprise visit to the home of Reality Winner, a linguist suspected of leaking evidence of Russian interference into our elections. This real-life thriller stages the transcript of the conversation between 25-year-old Reality and the agents who confront and arrest her.

Premiered at The Kitchen, NYC, January 5, 2019. Developed in part at The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, New York Theatre Workshop’s Dartmouth Residency, and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency in 2018.

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Rosa Barba

Cartography

There

KANEZA SCHAAL AND CHRISTOPHER MYERS

In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other

Produced by ArKtype

BLANKA ZIZKA AND ROSA BARBA Presented in partnership with The Wilma Theater World Premiere

SEPT 12–15

Christ Church Neighborhood House

SEPT 11–22

Wilma Theater

THEATER

20 North American Street

THEATER

265 South Broad Street

Five young people from around the world map their histories, their memories, and their futures. Combining simple storytelling and interactive video technology, this is all-ages theater at its most relevant.

SPARK: Fringe for Young Audiences. The SPARK Series is made possible by a leadership gift from the Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Arts Education Fund.

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Cartography was made possible by a generous grant from The Joyce Foundation.

The acclaimed Wilma HotHouse Company adapts a book-length meditation on conflict and identity by Lebanese American poet Etel Adnan.

Major support for There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other has been provided to The Wilma Theater by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

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Anne Van Aerschot

Ishka Michocka

Fase

Un Poyo Rojo

Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich

UN POYO ROJO

ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER / ROSAS U.S. Premiere

SEPT 12–14

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SEPT 19–21

Christ Church Neighborhood House

DANCE

140 North Columbus Boulevard

THEATER >> DANCE

20 North American Street

“I wanted to come up with my own vocabulary of movements, with its own grammar.” Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker The landmark first work by a revolutionary choreographer, performed by a new generation of dancers.

Sport. Humor. Sexuality. Argentinian duo Un Poyo Pojo explores the range of different relationships between two men, mining elements of dance, theater, and other expressive forms.

Rosas is supported by the Flemish Community and by the BNP Paribas Foundation.

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Andrej Lamut

M. Starkey

Pursuit of Happiness

Let Me Die

NATURE THEATER OF OKLAHOMA / EN-KNAP GROUP

JOSEPH KECKLER Presented in partnership with Opera Philadelphia as part of Festival O19

World Premiere

SEPT 20 + 21

Mandell Theater at Drexel University

SEPT 21–28

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3220 Chestnut Street

MUSIC >> THEATER

140 North Columbus Boulevard

Part barn dance, part movie pitch, part comedy of manners. New York–based Nature Theater of Oklahoma and internationally renowned Slovenian dance troupe EN-KNAP follow the American Dream from a Wild West saloon to the battlefields of Iraq.

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One-of-a-kind artist Joseph Keckler brings his rich voice and comic sensibility to a collage of operatic death scenes interspersed with original narratives and music.

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Plus performances by these independent artists…

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Late Night Snacks THE BEARDED LADIES CABARET Presented in partnership with Opera Philadelphia as part of Festival O19

SEPT 6–29

South Philadelphia location

CABARET

To be announced

Delectable bites of cabaret return for another year of after-hours entertainment. Includes performances by Stephanie Blythe and Justin Vivian Bond. Full lineup and tickets available in early August.

Gunnar Montana > The Hum’n’bards Annie Wilson > Urban Movement Arts Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium > JUNK Good Good Comedy > The WaitStaff Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater On the Rocks > Tangle Movement Arts Kaleidoscope Cultural Arts Collective Philadelphia Artists’ Collective > Dancefusion Evalina “Wally” Carbonell > Jessica Creane Juniper Productions > Philly Game Mechanics Love Drunk Life > Run Boy Run Productions Tribe 12 Performing Arts > The N Crowd The Women’s Film Festival > The Antidote Leah Stein Dance Company …and 150 more

Plus! A full schedule of events at the Fringe Festival Bookstore on the Cherry Street Pier and Late Night at La Peg and the Haas Biergarten.

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140 N. Columbus Blvd. (at Race St.) Philadelphia, PA 19106

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