Stuff to get tickets for early:
Last Supper is selling out quickly, tix may be gone by start of festival. One SKITsoid is sold out.
33 Fainting Spells shows are early too, don't miss Our Little Sunbeam, last show is first Sunday.
In case you didn't see it, (no photo in guide) Chocolate Genius is first Friday Cabaret with Lee & Dito. Drew & Kate host Saturday with Kandy Whales. Sideshow Bennie with Lot Six on Sunday. Popular acts early this year at Cabaret.

More later (if I have time)
See you by the fire exit.

Also Pollen Revolution looks good. A new form of Butoh invented in the sixties and not revealed until the nineties. First solo show since '95. First show in the American tour is right here at the Painted Bride.

Speaking of the Painted Bride, they have had Stand on your Man flyers up for a while already. Minneapolis is an up and coming Fringe hub. And so is Austin, the Rude Mechs have a following even amongst our volunteers who specifically wanted to do How Late It Was, How Late.

More Later.
See you from the fire exit.

I would strongly recommend checking out "CRAIG'S VARIETY HOUR" only because it's different, so different from the other interdisciplinary shows. Yes, there are comedy sketches, but within the hour there will be animated short films, non-animated short films, spoken word poetry, rap artists, improv, and each show will have a different celebrity interview,the highlight being a rare one on one interview with Philadelphia icon Edmund Bacon (yes, Kevin's Dad). Each show will be different and there is so much in each show that will appeal to so many different audiences,with different tastes & different preferences.Even the STAGE is different. The show will take place on a 24x8 stage with two 50inch plasma screens on either side so the audience can catch all the action. I encourage you to check out the website: www.citizenwumpus.com/cs/
Ok that's enuff hornblowing. I hope you will attend.
Thank you for your time.

I saw "Hairbody" on an impulse yesterday upstairs at The Print Center. What a lovely way to spend a half hour. The design--painted screen, backdrop, and body--was absorbing, and the folding and unfolding rhythm of the piece hooked me, as did the intrigue: will we see the dancer's face?

I think today (Sat, 9/4) is the last day it can be seen. (Looking it up ...) 1pm, 230pm, 4pm.

Production Values
presented by Uncut Pages Theatre Company, "a new, all female company founded by nine students at Bryn Mawr College."

I enjoyed this $5 lark, a 45 minute skit-like tangle between two fictional productions of Shakespearean plays, a 'traditional' Twelfth Night and an 'alternative' Henry V. The production features talented sisters Lilah Rahn-Lee (as Henry 5 / G) and Charlotte Rahn-Lee (as Viola, and also the writer and director). Favorite moment: G's heated declaration of why Henry V *must* be performed after Twelfth Night.

Incidentally, the downstairs space at the Ethical Society is nicely outfitted with lighting and drakes for Fringy performance. I hope this might be true on a permanent basis.

No Pity In South Philly
aka, the kickball game between InterAct and 1812 Productions

Here's the box score, and please don't shoot the fringe sports reporter ....

Points Highlight
====== ==========================
InterAct Theatre Company
+10 Published claim to be
Philly's "champion of the
red rubber ball."

-25 Did not uphold illusion
of said claim.

+10 Flashed batter, leading to
deflation of rubber ball.

+10 Mooned 1812 bench. (See
Best Costume).

+20 Best Costume: Hulk's
schoolgirl skirt. (Extra
credit for pigtails.)

+10 Won bench-clearing brawl.

+10 Nicknames on tee-shirts.

-5 Coaching batter to "wait
for your pitch."

+5 Appeared to have scored
more runs than 1812 did.
---
InterAct
TOTAL +45
----------------
1812 Productions
+10 Sustained illusion of an
organized and fair-minded
substitution pattern.

-5 Called time out.

+15 Ugliest player on the field.

+15 Lost bench-clearing brawl.

+15 Interrupted play by letting
small child run onto the field.

-10 Retrieved child.

+10 Appeared to score fewer runs
than InterAct did.

---
1812
TOTAL +50
----------------

WINNER: 1812 Productions, the 2nd Best Kickball Team
in Philadelphia (behind the Philadelphia
Dramatists Center)

Obedience
presented by Pequod Industrial Theatre
October Gallery (on N. 2nd street, about a block from the Arden)
www.livearts-fringe.org/2004/f...ils.cfm

What a nice piece of writing, with three strong, unaffected performances. The intimate playing space and understated staging allowed me to slip into the world of these three fundamentalist Christians (one of them coming to terms with being gay) with ease. I definitely recommend. (Disclaimer: I do know the director.)