2015 Festival Curated Postcards

Art and reality, illness and normality.

2015 Fringe Festival September 3 to 19

After the Rehearsal/Persona Toneelgroep Amsterdam (Netherlands) Written by Ingmar Berman Directed by Ivo van Hove US Premiere!

“Mr. van Hove brings us so close to a work’s white-hot emotional center that it burns as it never has before.” Ben Brantley, The New York Times Sept 3–5* at 8pm 170 minutes (includes intermission) 23rd Street Armory 22 South 23rd Street (at Ranstead) Wheelchair accessible *Post-show discussion with Peter van Kraaij, dramaturg at Toneelgroep Amsterdam, moderated by Tom Sellar. $35 (general) $24.50 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com 215.413.1318 Festival Producers Andrew and Byrna Scott

“The rehearsals were very intense and very emotional because it was about our own lives.”

Ivo van Hove, director Two Ingmar Bergman screenplays are reimagined brilliantly for the stage by celebrated Dutch director Ivo van Hove. This theatrical diptych— each play delving into the messy lives of theater artists—features deeply emotional and physical performances to match the layered psychological intensity of Bergman’s texts. Performed in Dutch with English supertitles.

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This presentation of After the Rehearsal/Persona has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. After the Rehearsal/Persona is made possible in cooperation with ALMO Antwerp and Joseph Weinberger Ltd. London and The Ingmar Bergman Foundation.

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Restrictions, tensions, explosions.

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2015 Fringe Festival September 3 to 19

Sept 4 at 7pm* Sept 5 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 6 at 2pm 60 minutes FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard (at Race) Wheelchair accessible *$45 Festival Opening Night includes show and after party with drinks and passed hors d’oeurves $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com 215.413.1318 More Jo Strømgren Kompani at the 2015 Fringe Festival: The Border and THERE. Festival Star Producers Al and Nancy Hirsig Festival Producer Jane G. Pepper

A Doll’s House Jo Strømgren Kompani (Norway) World Premiere!

“When domestic disagreements arise any house feels too small.” Jo Strømgren, director “Physical theater at its very best: daring, dark, unpredictable, and charged with compressed intensity.” The Guardian The always adventurous Jo Strømgren recreates Henrik Ibsen’s most famous play about trust and kinship, debt and lies, envy and love with a raucous cast featuring Suli Holum, Trey Lyford, Leonard C. Haas, Mary Lee Bednarek, and Pearce Bunting. Taking respectfully irreverent liberties with the script, this Doll’s House revels the full glory of its emotional and moral battles.

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A Doll’s House is a co-commission by FringeArts and Riksteatret, and has been supported by The Norwegian Opera and Ballet and The Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs.

Additional support provided by the Wyncote Foundation.

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Yearning for what they’ve lost.

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2015 Fringe Festival September 3 to 19

There Jo Strømgren Kompani (Norway)

Sept 9 at 6pm Sept 10 at 9pm Sept 11 at 6pm Sept 12 at 5pm 60 minutes FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard (at Race) Wheelchair accessible $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com 215.413.1318 More Jo Strømgren Kompani at the 2015 Fringe Festival: A Doll’s House and The Border.

Festival Star Producers Al and Nancy Hirsig

“The outsider look has always been linked to art— and who are more outsiders than dissidents?”

Jo Strømgren, choreographer “Strømgren elevates everyday behavior into the realms of the bizarre and the extreme.” Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice The groundbreaking company’s most popular show features former Soviet Union dissidents stranded on a journey between East and West. By turns Vaudevillian, poetic, violent, and balletic, There is a work of dance theater about choosing the unknown or going back to what you came from. It is performed in an invented “Sovietic” language, the company’s trademark nonsensensical dialogue that sounds like a real language but isn’t.

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Cross the boundary. Enter the war.

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2015 Fringe Festival September 3 to 19

Sept 9 at 9pm Sept 10 at 6pm Sept 11 at 9pm Sept 12 at 2pm 60 minutes FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard (at Race) Wheelchair accessible $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com 215.413.1318 More Jo Strømgren Kompani at the 2015 Fringe Festival: A Doll’s House and There.

Festival Star Producers Al and Nancy Hirsig Festival Executive Producers Tobey and Mark Dichter Festival Producers Carol Klein and Lawrence Spitz, David Seltzer Festival Co-Producers Norman and Suzanne Cohn, Christie Hartwell

The Border Jo Strømgren Kompani (Norway) “The human nature is and has always been to be tempted to cross whatever borders there are.” Jo Strømgren, director This stunning duet weaves theater and dance, humor and sensuality, to tell a story that unfolds from a classic relationship drama into the surreal dynamics of irrational human behavior.

Border conflicts exist everywhere: between nations, lovers, enemies, dreams and reality, the past and the future. It is only natural to want to cross them, even when it’s against one’s better judgment.

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Drug cartels, 80s music, lights, camera, action.

2015 Fringe Festival September 3 to 19

Sept 11 at 8pm* Sept 12 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 13 at 3pm Sept 15–17 at 7pm Sept 18 at 8pm Sept 19 at 2pm + 8pm 105 minutes Prince Theater 1412 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible *$20 preview $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com 215.413.1318 Festival Star Producers David and Linda Glickstein Festival Co-Producers Herbert and Sissie Lipton, Nicholas Plagge, Holly and David Stitchka, Edward and Anne Wagner

ALIAS ELLIS MACKENZIE Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental (USA) + CINEtica (Colombia) World Premiere!

“It comes from my personal experiences about real actors trying to play real people and their aliases on a fake TV show somewhat based on reality.”

Thaddeus Phillips, director “A brilliant, hilarious theater installation/conspiracy theory/telenovela/true-life drama.” Toby Zinman of The Philadelphia Inquirer on prequel Barry Seal Return to the 1980s with the Colombian drug lord, the American drug runner, the CIA agents, and the fixers via the actors who play them on a modern day TV show. A theatrical adventure that exists between myth and history, reality and make-believe, get set for a mind-bending meld of stage design, action, and storytelling. With cast members from the Netflix series Narcos and MundoFox’s Alias El Mexicano.

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ALIAS ELLIS MACKENZIE has been supported

by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

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Space, time, light.

2015 Fringe Festival September 3 to 19

Available Light Music by John Adams Choreography by Lucinda Childs Stage Design by Frank Gehry Sept 10–12* at 8pm 55 minutes The Drexel University Armory 32nd + Cuthbert Streets (between Lancaster Avenue + Arch Street) Wheelchair accessible *Pre-show panel discussion on Sept 12 at 6pm with Julie Lazar, Lucinda Childs, and Suzanne Carbonneau. $39 / Members pay $27.30 $39 (general) $27.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com 215.413.1318 Festival Co-Producers Gail Harrity Michael C. Lillys

“A compelling interplay between dance, music, and setting—gorgeous to behold and thrilling to hear.”

Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Experience this monumental work at a scale not seen since its premiere thirty years ago. Lucinda Childs, one of the modern era’s most celebrated choreographers, revives her seminal 1983 collaboration with composer John Adams and architect Frank Gehry. The full effect is that of a complete work of art, beyond a singular viewpoint, a deeply realized artistic encounter that creates a world of its own.

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This presentation of Available Light has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. The revival of Available Light was developed at MASS MoCa (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art). Available Light was originally commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1983 as the inaugural event for the museum’s Temporary Contemporary interim exhibition space.

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Experience soul in all of its manifestations.

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2015 Fringe Festival September 3 to 19

Soul Project David Zambrano (Venezuela/Netherlands) Co-presented by Swarthmore College “Gestural, impulsive, and highly theatrical.”

Andrew Boynton, The New Yorker

Sept 18 + 19 at 8pm 60 minutes Christ Church Neighborhood House 20 North American Street (by 2nd + Market Streets) Wheelchair accessible $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com 215.413.1318 Festival Co-Producers Robert Dever Arthur M. Kaplan and R. Duane Perry

“For Soul Project I worked more as a coach until the dancers became really hot spontaneous performers.” David Zambrano, choreographer An international cast of virtuosic dancers performs a series of mesmerizing solos to classic soul songs—from Aretha Franklin to James Brown. David Zambrano is a highly esteemed experimental choreographer known for bringing wildly unique, high intensity movement out of his dancers’ bodies. In Soul Project, audiences move freely throughout the performance space, close enough to feel every tremble and sigh of the dancers’ bodies.

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Meet Pieter and Gui. Pieter. Gui.

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2015 Fringe Festival September 3 to 19

Still Standing You Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido | CAMPO (Belgium/Portugal) “It’s intimate and lovely and physically idiosyncratic.” Willamette Week

Sept 9–11 at 7pm 45 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com 215.413.1318 Festival Star Producers David and Linda Glickstein

Two dancers, Pieter and Gui, play out scenes of male friendship, machismo, and the naked male body in this mischievous dance.

Are they friends, partners, lovers, rivals, or enemies? Manly displays of muscle, the intensity of boyish friendship, the capacity to turn limitations into virtuosity—all are combined into a daring, hilarious performance in which ruggedness, anger, and love are entwined in one great physical and all-encompassing embrace.

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Ordinary speech, in symphony.

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2015 Fringe Festival September 3 to 19

Suite n˚2 Encyclopédie de la Parole | Joris Lacoste (France) “In a way, Suite n°2 is a sound portrait of our world—such as it reaches us through words, voices, and languages.” Joris Lacoste, director Sept 15 + 16 at 7pm 85 minutes Christ Church Neighborhood House 20 North American Street (by 2nd + Market Streets) Wheelchair accessible $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com 215.413.1318 Festival Co-Producers Bert and Lynne Straub

The wealth and strangeness of the most ordinary forms of speech come alive. This virtuoso choral suite of many languages (with English supertitles) takes audiences on a procession of words that dance, words that decide, threaten, condemn, that join ranks, words that crumble and rise from the dust, naked words, words dressed in Versace.

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Supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and the FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) Foundation.

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Break down your perception of reality.

2015 Fringe Festival September 3 to 19

The Extra People Ant Hampton (UK) “I think of theaters as very transparently psychological spaces—buildings which spring into existence as a direct result of how our minds work.” Ant Hampton

Sept 17 at 6pm, 6:30pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm, 8:30pm, 9pm, 9:30pm, 10pm +10:30pm Sept 18 at 5pm, 5:30pm, 6pm, 6:30pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm, 8:30pm, 9pm + 9:30pm Only 15 slots per show.

Tickets must be purchased in advance. Arrive 20 minutes before your performance time to be set up with audio.

60 minutes Merriam Theater 230 South Broad Street Wheelchair accessible $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com 215.413.1318

“Blur[s] the distinction between presence and absence, inside and outside, reality and imagination, art and the real world.” Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times Put on some headphones. Enter a theater.

Have your perception of reality break down.

Just one of 30 audience members, you are instructed through your headphones to move throughout different zones of the enormous Merriam Theater, which is dormant, empty, and unlit save for your flashlight. You notice that your instructions differ from everyone else’s. You’re cast—along with everyone else— as some kind of extra. But an extra for what?

NOTE: This performance requires audiences to walk around in poorly lit areas and obey basic physical instructions. For information about wheelchair accessibility, please call the Box Office at 215.413.1318.

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Play the game.

2015 Fringe Festival September 3 to 19

Sept 2 + 3 at 7pm* Sept 4 + 5 at 8pm Sept 6 at 4pm Sept 9–12 at 7pm 75 minutes Christ Church Neighborhood House 20 North American Street (by 2nd + Market Streets) Wheelchair accessible *$20 preview $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com 215.413.1318

Festival Executive Producers Tom and Carol Beam Festival Producer Gene Dilks Festival Co-Producers Andrew Stone and Gene Bishop, Nancy Lanham Cat, Annie, and Steven Bohnenberger

Underground Railroad Game Jenn Kidwell and Scott Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special “What can we do but laugh?” Jenn Kidwell, co-creator and performer “Kidwell and Sheppard’s stellar performances make the crowd, or the class, laugh, cringe, and often do both at the same time.” NOLA Defender A delirious, funny, and taboo-smashing work about race relations in America.

Watch cultural reenactment gone awry, a romantic comedy with hipster racists, and a time traveling romance between teachers who harbor a racially exoticized attraction. Underground Railroad Game parodies the unsettling ways in which history is constructed.

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