Phoenix Fringe 2010

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2010 COnTenTS Welcome

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Festival Guide

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How To Fringe

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Featured Artists

Donors

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See each Featured Artist for a description of their work, credits and performance times.

Supporting Partners

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Staff & Credits

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Venue Locations Map

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After Fringe Parties

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Š 2010 Phoenix Fringe Festival. Program published by INMEDIA Program Design | STEVE GAMBLE, Cover design | JAKE PINHOLSTER www.inmediacompany.com

Get Involved! phx:fringe

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is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing cutting edge theatre to downtown Phoenix. Proceeds from ticket sales are returned to participating artists in order to help them defray production costs and travel expenses. Therefore PHX:fringe depends on contributions from individuals and corporations, foundations and government grants in order to balance the budget.

Please consider making a tax deductible donation today.

Since PHX:fringe is a nonprofit, charitable organization recognized under IRS Code Section 501(c)3, donations are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.

PHX:fringe also depends on the generosity of volunteers who give their time and expertise to help make the Festival happen. If you are interested in joining our team and committing time and effort to promote independent, cutting edge theatre in Downtown Phoenix, please consider becoming a PHX:fringe volunteer. Artists interested in applying to be part of PHX:fringe 2011 (tentatively scheduled for April 1st – 10th), please join our mailing list in order to receive the earliest possible notification. For more information please visit our website at www.phxfringe.org.

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welcome to the

2010 Phoenix

Fringe Festival!

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I’m very excited to welcome you all to the 2010 Phoenix Fringe Festival!

This year we mark an important milestone as we produce our third annual Festival, with 37 artists, 6 venues and more than 140 performances.

PHX:fringe 2010 also includes more parties, more choices and more opportunities to explore the Fringe than ever before. Since the average length for a Fringe show is less than one hour, you’ll be able to see several in one weekend and still have time for dinner!

As many of you already know, Fringe Festivals happen all around the U.S. and around the world. In fact, the inspiration for PHX:fringe came from similar events in cities like San Francisco, Minneapolis, Orlando, Boulder, New York, Philadelphia and Toronto, not to mention the original Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. Phoenix is a city built on a long history of taking risks and pushing boundaries – Fringe artists are more than happy to live up to that tradition with theatre, dance and performance that’s right on the cutting edge.

We are very pleased once again to present artists from around the country and around the world side by side with the best performers in Phoenix. It is no accident that this project is taking place in downtown at the heart of the urban desert. In the past few years Downtown Phoenix has become the place to go for art, performance and entertainment, Fringe is proud to offer audiences something different, something exciting, and something alive!

So please, browse through the program and see everything that PHX:fringe 2010 has to offer. Come to a show and join us all afterwards for a drink and a bite to eat. I’m sure you’ll find something interesting on stage and I guarantee you’ll find something interesting to talk about when it’s over!

Thanks for your support!

Patrick Demers Producing Director

How to

Fringe!

PHX:fringe 2010

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is presenting 37 artists at 6 venues with 140 performances – you may wonder how you can best take it all in. There is plenty to do and you don’t want to miss a thing, so this guide is designed to help you navigate the exciting Fringe experience.

After each show, stick around! One of the great things about the Phoenix Fringe Festival is the opportunity to meet other alternative-theatre-goers like you and learn about the other performances. This is a great chance to make new friends and find out what else you might like to go see.

The Program

Tickets

It’s already in your hands, so good work so far. This program has a guide to all of the shows - you can browse and easily see all of the performance times.

All Fringe seating is general admission, so plan to arrive at least 20 minutes before the show starts to get the best seats. There are several ways to buy tickets: Individual tickets prices are set by the artist and can be purchased at the door, or in advance online at www.phxfringe.org.

Getting Around PHX:fringe takes place in two Downtown Phoenix neighborhoods: The Roosevelt Row Arts District and the Grand Avenue Arts District. There is a handy map on page 7 to show you where each venue is located and to allow you to plan your experience accordingly. Most of the venues are within walking distance of one another, but you can also use bicycle rickshaws, buses, or the light rail to get around. For more information on getting around visit: www.coppersquare.com or call the Ambassadors at 602-495-1500.

For more information, please contact the PHX:fringe Box Office at 602-476-1066 or by email at: tickets@phxfringe.org.

ALL THE MORE TO LOVE Find your beauty within!

April 7 – 25

CAROLE & ROBERT MACHIZ Musical Sponsor

PHOENIX THEATRE GUILD Production Sponsor

THE EDGERTON FOUNDATION

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No one leaves All the More to Love the same in this new, whimsical and laugh-out-loud musical that celebrates beauty that’s deeper than anything the magazines sell.

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OUR FRIENDS

Donors & Sponsors

Thank you to the following donors for making cash or in-kind gifts to support PHX:fringe 2010: Arizona Commission on the Arts ASU School of Theatre and Film Jonathan Beller Angela Cazel-Jahn and Rob Larson Children’s Museum of Phoenix Crave Sandwich Shop Nancy Dallett Patrick Demers & Debbie Gilpin Downtown Phoenix Partnership, Inc. Linda Essig Flam Chen Geoffrey Gonsher Hotel San Carlos Esther Groves Rex Gulbranson InMedia Company The Lost Leaf Steven Mastroieni

Supporting partners

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Jeff McMahon Beatrice Moore Annie Moscow Paisley Violin Phoenix Theatre The Pie Factory Jake Pinholster Pita Jungle Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation New Times Space 55 Starbucks Sucker Punch Sally’s Claire West Elizabeth Widmer Ryan Winters Yelp

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phoenix Theatre: Little Theatre 100 E. McDowell Rd Phoenix, AZ 85004

The Lost Leaf 914 North 5th Street Phoenix, AZ 85004 (After Party 4/9)

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Modified Arts 407 E. Roosevelt Street Phoenix, AZ 85004

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Friday, April 2, 2010 The Chocolate Phoenix Factory Theatre

AT A GLANCE

7:00 PM

Dodging Bullets approx. end time: 8:00

Space 55 7:00 PM

7:00 PM

Dinosaurs Exposed! SPLAT - The Evolution approx. end time: 8:00 of Soul 685 approx. end time: 8:00

7:00 PM

7:00 PM

7:00 PM

Steven Strange approx. end time: 8:00

UrbanSTEW (ongoing) check urbanstew.org/phxfringe for dates and times

8:30 PM

8:30 PM

8:30 PM

8:30 PM

8:30 PM

Isolated approx. end time: 9:30

Date of Performance approx. end time: 9:30

Love and Marriage approx. end time: 9:30

The Politics of Hair approx. end time: 9:30

10:00 PM

10:00 PM

Cada Quien Su Mexicano approx. end time: 11:00

Saturday, April 3, 2010 The Chocolate Phoenix Factory Theatre 2:00 PM

Picnics at the Asylum approx. end time: 3:00

5:00 PM

Dodging Bullets approx. end time: 6:00

7:00 PM

Phil the Void; The Great Brain Robbery approx. end time: 8:00

8:30 PM

A Piece of Monologue approx. end time: 9:00

2:00 PM

10:00 PM Dudes Gone Wild approx. end time: 11:00

Space 55 2:00 PM

Dinosaurs Exposed! SPLAT - The Evolution approx. end time: 3:00 of Soul 685 approx. end time: 3:00 3:30 PM Dinosaurs Exposed! approx. end time: 4:30

5:30 PM Isolated approx. end time: 6:30

7:00 PM

[OMIT] approx. end time: 8:00

8:30 PM

Cada Quien Su Mexicano approx. end time: 9:30

7:00 PM

Date of Performance approx. end time: 8:00

8:30 PM

Fly/Lyf approx. end time: 9:30

9:30 PM

10:00 PM

10:00 PM

We Do It In the Dark approx. end time: 10:30

Isolated approx. end time: 11:00

Dudes Gone Wild approx. end time: 12:00am

Sunday, April 4, 2010 The Chocolate Phoenix Factory Theatre

Space 55 2:00 PM

2:00 PM

Date of Performance approx. end time: 3:00

Dodging Bullets approx. end time: 3:00

6:00 PM

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Phil the Void; The Great Brain Robbery approx. end time: 7:00

7:30 PM

Picnics at the Asylum approx. end time: 8:30

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

SPLAT – The Evolution Dinosaurs Exposed! of Soul 685 approx. end time: 7:00 approx. end time: 6:00

6:30 PM

7:30 PM

[OMIT] approx. end time: 8:30

Fly/Lyf approx. end time: 7:30

10:00 PM

10:00 PM

10:00 PM

Ballad of a Man approx. end time: 11:00

The Tribulations of a Lesbian Folk Singer approx. end time: 11:00

Troilus and Cressida approx. end time: 10:30

Modified Arts Soul Invictus

Warehouse 1005

UrbanSTEW 2:00 PM 2:00 PM Love and Marriage The Tribulations of a (ongoing) check approx. end time: 3:00 Lesbian Folk Singer urbanstew.org/phxfringe approx. end time: 3:00 for dates and times

3:30 PM

Ballad of a Man approx. end time: 4:30

7:00 PM

FDance Exposure approx. end time: 8:00

8:30 PM

Much Ado About Nothing approx. end time: 9:30

3:30 PM

Steven Strange approx. end time: 4:30

5:00 PM

The Politics of Hair approx. end time: 6:00

7:00 PM

Paisley Yankolovich: The Monsters I’ve been 8:00 PM approx. end time: 8:00 The Tribulations of a Lesbian Folk Singer 8:30 PM The Tribulations of a approx. end time: 9:00 Lesbian Folk Singer approx. end time: 9:30

10:00 PM

The Politics of Hair approx. end time: 11:00

Modified Arts Soul Invictus 2:30 PM FDance Exposure approx. end time: 3:30

4:00 PM Much Ado About Nothing approx. end time: 5:00

5:30 PM

Warehouse 1005

UrbanSTEW 1:00 PM Paisley Yankolovich: (ongoing) check The Monsters I’ve been urbanstew.org/phxfringe approx. end time: 2:00 for dates and times

4:00 PM

2:00 PM

The Tribulations of a Troilus and Cressida approx. end time: 3:00 Lesbian Folk Singers approx. end time: 5:00

5:30 PM

Love and Marriage Paisley Yankolovich: approx. end time: 6:30 The Monsters I’ve been approx. end time: 6:30

8:00 PM

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9:00 PM

7:00 PM

Dudes Gone Wild approx. end time: 9:30

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A Piece of Monologue approx. end time: 9:30

Warehouse 1005

FDance Exposure approx. end time: 8:00

Picnics at the Asylum approx. end time: 9:30

We Do It In the Dark approx. end time: 11:00

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Modified Arts Soul Invictus

Steven Strange approx. end time: 8:00

Monday, April 5, 2010 Space 55

8:00 PM

Dudes Gone Wild - approx. end time: 9:30

Thursday, April 8, 2010 The Chocolate Phoenix Factory Theatre 7:00 PM

CHOP approx. end time: 8:00

7:00 PM

Tissues and Razorblades approx. end time: 8:00

Space 55

Modified Arts Soul Invictus

7:00 PM

7:30 PM

7:00 PM

The Bike Trip approx. end time: 8:00

Ballad of a Man approx. end time: 8:30

My Rooster is Huge approx. end time: 8:00

9:00 PM

archy and mehitabel approx. end time: 9:30

8:30 PM 8:30 PM

We Do It In the Dark approx. end time: 9:30

8:30 PM

Violent Delights approx. end time: 10:00

8:00 PM

Dudes Gone Wild approx. end time: 9:30

Live Out Loud approx. end time: 9:30

10:00 PM

10:00 PM

10:00 PM

Dodging Bullets approx. end time: 11:00

Fly/Lyf approx. end time: 11:00

Steven Strange approx. end time: 11:00

Warehouse 1005 UrbanSTEW (ongoing) check urbanstew.org/phxfringe for dates and times

Friday, April 9, 2010 Phoenix The Chocolate Theatre Factory

Space 55 A Cold Day in Hell approx. end time: 8:00

8:30 PM

8:30 PM

We Do It In the Dark approx. end time: 9:30

10:00 PM

Tissues and Razorblades approx. end time: 9:30

10:00 PM

CHOP approx. end time: 11:00

Isolated approx. end time: 11:00

Saturday, April 10, 2010 Phoenix The Chocolate Theatre Factory 1:00 PM

1:00 PM

Violent Delights approx. end time: 2:30

CHOP approx. end time: 2:00

2:30 PM

8:30 PM

Date of Performance approx. end time: 9:30

Tissues and Razorblades approx. end time: 4:00

4:00 PM

A Piece of Monologue approx. end time: 4:30

5:30 PM

Phil the Void; The Great Brain Robbery approx. end time: 6:30

7:00 PM

4:30 PM

Cada Quien Su Mexicano approx. end time: 5:30

6:00 PM

Violent Delights approx. end time: 7:30

8:00 PM

Dodging Bullets approx. end time: 8:00

Cada Quien Su Mexicano approx. end time: 9:00

8:30 PM

CHOP approx. end time: 9:30

1:00 PM

1:00 PM

[OMIT] approx. end time: 2:00

2:30 PM

Tissues and Razorblades approx. end time: 3:30

Picnics at the Asylum approx. end time: 3:30

5:30 PM

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

Space 55

Modified Arts Soul Invictus

2:00 PM

Violent Delights approx. end time: 5:30

7:00 PM

7:00 PM

A Piece of Monologue approx. end time: 7:30

1:30 PM

Date of Performance approx. end time: 3:00

Three Goddesses and a Guy approx. end time: 2:30

5:30 PM

Live Out Loud approx. end time: 3:30

SPLAT – The Evolution of Soul 685 approx. end time: 6:30

7:00 PM

3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Love and Marriage approx. end time: 5:30

6:00 PM

Fly/Lyf approx. end time: 8:00

Three Goddesses and a Guy approx. end time: 7:00

8:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Bike Trip approx. end time: 9:30

Ballad of a Man approx. end time: 8:30

Isolated approx. end time: 8:00

2:00 PM

The Bike Trip approx. end time: 3:00

3:30 PM

SPLAT – The Evolution of Soul 685 approx. end time: 4:30

7:30 PM The Bike Trip approx. end time: 8:30

5:00 PM Paisley Yankolovich: The Monsters I’ve been approx. end time: 6:00

7:00 PM 8:30 PM

My Rooster is Huge approx. end time: 11:00

10:00 PM

Modified Arts Soul Invictus 1:00 PM

Much Ado About Nothing approx. end time: 2:00

My Rooster is Huge approx. end time: 2:00

3:00 PM

Paisley Yankolovich: The Monsters I’ve been approx. end time: 3:30

Three Goddesses and a Guy approx. end time: 4:00

2:30 PM

archy and mehitabel approx. end time: 5:00

6:00 PM

The Beauty of the Numbers approx. end time: 6:30

Love and Marriage approx. end time: 7:00

Warehouse 1005

UrbanSTEW (ongoing) check urbanstew.org/phxfringe for dates and times

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

The Slomski Brothers approx. end time: 5:30

8:00 PM

archy and mehitabel Troilus and Cressida approx. end time: 9:00 approx. end time: 8:00

10:30 PM

7:30 PM

8:00 PM

5:30 PM

7:00 PM

The Slomski Brothers The Politics of Hair approx. end time: 8:00 approx. end time: 8:30

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For information regarding tickets, performances and special events, please visit: www.phxfringe.org

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We Do It In the Dark approx. end time: 9:00

3:30 PM

The Beauty of the Numbers approx. end time: 4:30

The Politics of Hair approx. end time: 9:30

1:00 PM

Warehouse 1005

UrbanSTEW 2:00 PM (ongoing) check archy and mehitabel urbanstew.org/phxfringe approx. end time: 3:00 for dates and times

9:00 PM

Much Ado About Nothing approx. end time: 10:00

Space 55

8:00 PM

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CHOP approx. end time: 6:30

Troilus and Cressida approx. end time: 9:00

9:30 PM

Steven Strange approx. end time: 12:00am

Phil the Void; The Great Brain Robbery approx. end time: 2:00

8:30 PM

archy and mehitabel approx. end time: 9:30

10:30 PM Strange Family Circus approx. end time: 10:30 My Rooster is Huge approx. end time: 12:00am

[OMIT] approx. end time: 10:30

Sunday, April 11, 2010 Phoenix The Chocolate Theatre Factory

UrbanSTEW (ongoing) check urbanstew.org/phxfringe for dates and times

10:00 PM

9:30 PM

10:00 PM

Picnics at the Asylum approx. end time: 11:00

8:30 PM

Live Out Loud approx. end time: 9:00

7:00 PM

The Beauty of the Numbers approx. end time: 8:00

The Bike Trip approx. end time: 11:00

3:00 PM

Dodging Bullets approx. end time: 3:30

7:00 PM

Ballad of a Man approx. end time: 8:00

Warehouse 1005

AT A GLANCE

7:00 PM

7:00 PM

Phil the Void; The Great Brain Robbery approx. end time: 8:00

Modified Arts Soul Invictus

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The Chocolate Factory

1105 W. Grand Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85007 Dodging Bullets

Picnics at the Asylum

By David Barker (Tempe)

Written and performed by Angela Neff, Developed with David Ford, Directed by Mark Kenward (San Francisco)

In the summer of 2004 David Barker began a sabbatical with the intention of developing a new solo show; a personal, soulsearching exploration marking the milestone of turning 50.

Nothing happened until... On July 6th 2004 at 12:15 p.m. in an upscale Boston suburb, his brother-in-law, a successful brain surgeon, tried to kill Barker’s sister and Barker himself as his 16 year-old niece watched.

Dodging Bullets is a compelling journey through these horrific events and is performed with visceral truth by Barker as he brings to life 10 people in this new solo show. Dodging Bullets is for mature audiences.

In Picnics at the Asylum, Angela takes us on an outlandish and poignant journey, full of psychedelic sunglasses and rockin’ church services as she examines the relationship of madness and love with a father who goes from being the most popular Dad in Silicon Valley to an infamous love preaching street person on Phoenix’s Skid Row. Picnics was developed in San Francisco with David Ford, nationally renowned for his work with solo theater artists. Angela has performed in various cities on the western United States and is honored to bring her father’s personal story to Phoenix where he spent the last years of his life.

We Do It In the Dark Directed by Zac Yurkovic, Written by Conner Draves, Robert Fontella, Daniel Frey, Christian Krauspe and Kelly Rossi.

E4 Productions (Detroit)

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An ensemble piece performed entirely in the dark. The 5 scripts are all world premiers of works created specifically to be performed in the dark. These plays are all unique, funny and compelling, with the audience going through this experience just like performers.

A show like you’ve never seen and never will!

Phil the Void; The Great Brain Robbery Created by Phil van Hest (Los Angeles) For 10 years, Phil van Hest has been exposing audiences to a unique and thrilling new theatrical format: The One-Man Show! Not quite stand-up, not exactly a comedic monologue, but something more closely resembling “Philosophical Comedy”; without characters, funny hats or any information about his family, van Hest articulates the unspoken rebellion lurking in his audience’s subconscious. Neat trick.

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1105 W. Grand Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85007 A Piece of Monologue

CHOP

Written by Samuel Beckett, Directed by Patrick Demers (Scottsdale)

Created and performed by Brad McEntire Audacity Theatre Lab (Dallas)

Veteran actor and playwright Bob Barr performs a poignant and moving short play

by Nobel Laureate Samuel Beckett. This hauntingly compelling piece explores the essence of life with a simplicity and elegance that manages to capture the inevitability of death without ever conceding to its power. Beckett may have never come to Phoenix when he was alive, but his spirit lives here forever.

CHOP is a hilarious and bizarre one-man show that concerns a man at a loss about what to do with himself. He is plagued with a profound sense of isolation from the busy, happy, productive people in the city around him when a chance encounter with a mysterious tattooed woman introduces him to a unique subculture of amputation fetishists and what might turn out to be his true calling.

All the world’s a stage…

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Hands-On! Educational! Fun!

REAL PEOPLE. REAL REVIEWS.™

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Modified Arts

407 E. Roosevelt Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004

FDance Exposure

Love and Marriage

Created and performed by Rebecca Ferrell and Rebecca Blair Hillerby (Tempe)

Created by Manda Leigh Blunt (Scottsdale)

FDance Exposure features the choreographic work of Rebecca A. Ferrell, Artistic Director of FDance and Rebecca Blair Hillerby, Artistic Director of Dance Exposure. The creative work of these performing artists is filled with satire and wit and their obsession with American culture. Femininity, and sexuality rings throughout each of their pieces. In addition to creating politically and socially charged work FDance and Dance Exposure creates mixed media installations and dances for non-traditional venues. Please note this performance is intended for mature audiences.

Ballad of a Man

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Ballad of a Man is a Single Performer-Original Musical Revue. The songs and stories follow the music and fabled life stories of the author, a surprising multifaceted, friendly and quirky gentleman of the street. He offers us a glimpse of his own life--how he got here, how he survives, but also seems keenly aware and motivated to give his opinion about what’s going on in Middle Class America.

Daniel and Susan are getting a divorce. They have been married for about seven years with no kids, and everything has been settled and divided between them except for one thing: the house. Both of them want it and neither of them is willing to negotiate over it. Their lawyers have gotten so tired of hearing them argue and fight that they have locked them in an old conference room in one of their law firms and told them not to call until they have resolved the issue.

Much Ado About Nothing Adapted and performed by Arizona Shakespeare Festival (Sedona) This version of Much Ado About Nothing is an adaptation by the ensemble cast that toured throughout Arizona in 2009.

The performance is presented by four actors (two men and two women), who play nearly all of Shakespeare’s original roles. There ensues a great deal of gender switching, false beards, silly dialects and physical comedy. Shakespeare’s story remains unchanged.

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Modified Arts

407 E. Roosevelt Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Live Out Loud Created by Tumbleweed, directed by Sarah Sullivan (Phoenix) This original devised piece explores the real story of homeless youth in Phoenix from a personal perspective, challenging performers and audiences to answer the question: what makes a home? This performance is sponsored by Artswork- Place: Vision & Voice, and the Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development.

Three Goddesses and a Guy Created and performed by Myth Mob (Phoenix) Myth Mob spins stories of treachery, family, royalty, divinity, humanity, and greed.

Liz Warren invokes the Emerald Isle with her tales of a time when men were real men and women were goddesses. Marilyn Omifunke Torres brings her invocational style to Yoruba chronicles of daring deities and misbegotten mortals. Harriet Cole melts the northern glaciers with a tale of the fury of a Valkyrie scorned. And Sulé Greg Wilson unleashes his golden tongue on a Mande story of royal betrayal and supernatural enticement.

The Slomski Brothers Written, directed and performed by The Slomski Brothers (Richmond) 2 0 1 0

Created and performed by Sahar and Steven Strange (Phoenix)

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Local magician dare devil, Dr. Rev. Stephen Strange has offed himself again. His lovely wife/assistant, the Mother Fakir Sahar Strange must bring him back to life so that he can clean up his mess. Featuring Gypsy Geoff of Dead Man’s Carnival, the show revives the lost arts of circus, sideshow, vaudeville and burlesque with vibrant energy, comedy and awe.

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The Resurrection and Death of Dr. Rev. Steven Strange

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The Slomski Brothers are a Vaudeville comedy duo that uses music, comedy, juggling and slapstick to destroy their audiences with laughter! They have performed in multiple cities and states in the US and will be touring the US before and after the PHX:fringe.

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Dinosaurs Exposed!

Created by Kirby Soderberg and Bruce Marrs (Tempe) Dinosaurs Exposed! is a live, 45-minute performance about dinosaurs and the history of paleontology. An Ape, Neanderthal, Middle Age Fool, Monk and Modern Day Paleontologist discover the same pile of bones and speculate their origin. Each character comes to their conclusions, but they are inaccurate. Finally, the bones come to life, and we learn the real story.

[OMIT] Created and performed by Aaron Wester (Tempe)

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Inspired by Dante’s The Inferno, a man travels into the dark recesses of his own hell to confront his demons and weed out the truth behind his lost identity. A battle ensues when the struggle to omit painful memories clashes with his need to stay true to himself. This quest of self discovery is actually a quest for love and the need to accept all the parts of himself he doesn’t let come to the surface.

Cada Quien Su Mexicano/To Each Their Own Mexican A play in Spanish, directed by Jose Antonio Ocegueda (Phoenix) Cada Quien su Mexicano is an experimental stage piece filled with provocative and insightful circumstances, creating rhythmical and humorous twists portraying the different, controversial and versatile phases of a cultural being who is socially complex and diversified.

In this work, Jose Antonio captures the grotesque, yet amazing transition of a culture that is not even close to extinction by its characters who colorfully bring to life the many ways the Mexican can survive, procreate and easily become one of the wonders of the world.

Tissues and Razorblades Created by Diane Sharp-Nachsin and the SHARP Dance Company (Philadelphia) Dance should be more than a performance; it should be an experience. Addictive, uninhibited emotion, eccentric partnering, artistic collaboration and intense unison material fuse in contemporary movement, connecting the audience through individual interpretation. To intensify and transform dance into an odyssey, SHARP merges with Philadelphia artists enhancing its innovative choreography with exceptionally moving photography, imaginative set pieces, and stimulating music and media.

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Isolated: A Retrospective Look into the Spectrum of Loneliness Created by Philip S. Zisman, performed by Hybrid.[Theatre].

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Violent Delights

by Cardboard Suitcase (Australia) Violent Delights is an original production that explores the violence and brutality inherent to Shakespeare’s plays.

Twenty-one scenes, drawn from some of the Bard’s most popular works and supported by the grotesque clowning method bouffon, take the audience on a comic and sinister journey which explores the strange delights we humans often take in violence. Violent Delights’ marriage of bouffon’s extreme physicality with Shakespeare’s heightened verse, as well as the production’s use of dance, music, mime and magic, make his characters’ relationships as enticing, funny and irresistible as they were when performed to audiences long ago.

Isolated: A Retrospective Look into the Spectrum of Loneliness uses the ideas of the Grand Guignol, the French theatre of horror, to explore the effects of loneliness on the mind, body, and soul. Isolated follows a man, a drifter, who is thrown into solitary confinement as an experiment, a lab rat. He has no past and no recollection of himself or his life at all. The play juxtaposes reality and fantasy, dream and nightmare, and sanity and derangement . Isolated uses visual images, dance and choreographed movement, textiles, and ensemble members to create an enraptured experience of truth, beauty, thrill and absolute horror.

Special Performance at Warehouse 1005 1005 1st St. Phoenix, AZ 85004

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

Directed by Matthew Watkins

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at Warehouse 1005 1005 N. 1st St. Tickets $15 at the door or online phxfringe.org showup.com

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Present this ad at the door for a $5 discount.

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In the seventh year of the endless Trojan War, two lovers unite against great odds, only to be cruelly ripped apart by the nightmare of war.

Politics, violence, love, and humor come smashing together in this contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s most enigmatic and modern play.

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636 E. Pierce Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004 SPLAT - The Evolution of Soul 685 Created, written and performed by Raleigh R. Pinskey (Cave Creek) A one woman comedy solo show about a loveable, quirky soul’s unique dilemma “To Evolve or Not to Evolve.” Baited

by Better Than Sex Chocolate Cake, and the promise of a certificate of completion from the Karmic Karousel, Soul 685’s Earthly journey, filled with interesting hair days, memories of past lives (the Russian Tsar’s villa and jewels, his and the hock-able) and other fond forays of love, forgiveness and cycle breaking, will leave you literally with a giggle in your step and a song in your heart.

Bring your friends, They’ll thank you.

Date of Performance Presented by Space 55 Theatre Ensemble (Phoenix) Robert Fisher from the Space 55 Ensemble has devised a soloperformance piece that reveals his personal exploration of immediacy.

Fly/Lyf Directed by Aimmee Reid (Tempe)

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Fly/Lyf is the story of a world where humans have wings and the ability to fly. A young boy named Lyf lives an isolated existence, hidden away in the woods with parents. One day, Lyf meets a young girl named Meta and her older brother Taur. Lyf learns that everyone his age is learning how to fly! Lyf wants to learn how, but his parents react strangely to his demands and questions. When Lyf discovers a secret in his father’s workshed, Lyf must confront his parents. Will the truth completely destroy the life he knows or will it set him free?

The Bike Trip Created by and starring Martin Dockery (Brooklyn) In The Bike Trip, a Swiss pharmacologist finds himself struggling through a most bizarre bicycle ride, one that will unexpectedly introduce the world to LSD and alter the way millions of people perceive the nature of consciousness.

65 years later, in a quest hilarious, harrowing, and heartbreaking, I set out on a very personal trip to understand why acid has for so long both enthralled and terrified us. In this energetic, theatrical monologue, I detail my breathtaking quest to uncover the nature of the psychedelic experience, journeying through San Francisco, India, and Switzerland, before tapping into history’s very first acid trip by, amongst other things, renting a bike.

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Dudes Gone Wild Written by Guillermo Reyes, Teatro Bravo (Phoenix) Four young men get together in a hotel room after one of them, the groom, has been stood up at the altar by his bride, and now they have to ďŹ gure out what happened, and how the groom will move on with his life. In one night of rigorous drinking and hilarious revelations, we get to know the characters, discover their secrets, and observe their quasi-adolescent inability to launch into adulthood.

NOTE: Special Performance Monday April 15, at 8pm

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Family Fringe at the Children’s Museum

ASU Theatre for Youth students lead children as they celebrate Earth and Sky Month at the Museum through our five senses.

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Strange Family Circus

Strange Family Circus takes to the streets to give you the thrills, chills and amazements!

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Shadowalkers are 4-legged stilt creatures with insect-like snouts. They are elegant, haunting and monochromatic. Acrobatic dancers ride their Shadowalkers through the streets, interacting with passers-by, upsetting traffic, and eating snacks. These creatures, at once human and animal invade and transform mundance spaces into urban playgrounds that area at the same time whimsical and macabre.

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1022 NW Grand Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85007 The Tribulations of a Lesbian Folk Singer Created and performed by Kristen Loree (Albuquerque)

The Politics of Hair

Chik Mann has been a folk singer her entire adult life. The songs and stories shared are cute, sexy and dangerous.

The show consists of a woman, her guitar and a stool. The songs are about love, the stories about lust, childhood, marriage and children.

Written by Lou Clark Directed by Julie Holston. Featuring Jenn Rooks (Ka-HOOTZ Theater Company, Albuquerque) Imagine if you woke up every morning with a dream in your heart and good hair, whatever that means to you. Imagine a country filled with hope, happiness and healthy hair instead of one filled with hate, regret and split ends. Join Dani, a thirty-something lesbian, in this comedic journey as she searches for “Good, bad, hip hair” and finds herself in the process. Don’t miss this show that has left audiences in New Mexico, New York City and Seattle chanting “Better hair for a better America!”

Paisley Yankolovich: The Monsters I’ve been Created and performed by Paisley Yankolovich (Phoenix)

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The world premier of the latest song cycle from Gospel music’s darkest messenger.

Monsters promises 20 dark, acapella show-tunes that delve deeply into twisted love, religious rapture... And severed limbs.

My Rooster is Huge Created by Antonio Sacre (Hollywood) Directed by Jim Lasko (Chicago) Reilly calls him a sexual extremist, and Dennis Miller wants to punch him in the nose. Solo Performer and two-time Best In Fringe Festival winner at the New York International Fringe Festival, Antonio Sacre returns to the Phoenix Fringe with his newest solo show, My Rooster is Huge - a blisteringly funny and moving solo performance piece developed with renowned Chicago director Jim Lasko.

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1022 NW Grand Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85007 archy and mehitabel

The Beauty of the Numbers

Created by Jeff Culbert, based on the works of Don Marquis.

(Ausable Theatre; London, Canada)

Created and performed by Annie Moscow (Phoenix)

Archy is a cockroach who was a human poet in his previous life. His preoccupation is the troubled relationship between humans and insects, and more generally between humans and the rest of nature.

Remedies range from the reformation of cockroaches to a program of mutual understanding to an apocalyptic insect revolution. The alley cat Mehitabel is more of an artist and a hedonist, but she too is a survivor, and her unquenchable spirit complements Archy’s activism. A solo performance.

Life’s laughs and graphs. Points and poignancy. Come laugh, ponder and enjoy great original, live music in a new show about life’s ups and downs, perspective and growth.

By Annie Moscow.

The Resurrection and Death of Dr. Rev. Steven Strange Created and performed by Sahar and Steven Strange (Phoenix)

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Local magician dare devil, Dr. Rev. Stephen Strange has offed himself again. His lovely wife/assistant, the Mother Fakir Sahar Strange must bring him back to life so that he can clean up his mess. Featuring Gypsy Geoff of Dead Man’s Carnival, the show revives the lost arts of circus, sideshow, vaudeville and burlesque with vibrant energy, comedy and awe.

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Board Of Directors

Patrick Demers, Co-Founder and Producing Director Daniel Roth, Festival Director Molly Gittelman, Associate Director Candace Langholff, Business Manager Rick Bush, Technical Director Joe Tsai, Volunteer Coordinator Andrea Williams, Box OfďŹ ce Manager Rachel Hamilton, Family Fringe Director Kate Crowley, Marketing Consultant Amy Baldwin, Development Consultant Dana Gal, Venue Manager Hanna Leister, Venue Manager Stacey Sotosky, Venue Manager Dale Nakagawa, Venue Manager Izzy Taylor, Venue Manager

Patrick Demers Jonathan Beller Linda Essig Jake Pinholster Steve Mastroieni Geoffrey Gonsher Elizabeth Widmer

Advisory Staff Jonathan Beller, Co-Founder and Artistic Advisor Elizabeth Widmer, Operations Advisor Jake Pinholster, Technical and Artistic Advisor

Special thanks to everyone who helped make Phx:fringe 2010 a success.

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