Cincyfringe.com Presents Fringe for a Night featuring 7(x1) Samurai, 3/13

Know Theatre's Cincinnati Fringe Festival is just around the corner...but we can't wait another second. We've chosen the shows. We're building a new website. We want to Fringe!

Join us at the Know Theatre on March 13, 2010 for "Fringe for a Night". In addition to announcing the 2010 Festival line up, we'll be unveiling the brand new cincyfringe.com. Following the announcement, we're proud to present a special performance David Gaines' 7(x1) Samurai, the 2009 Festival Critic's Pick of the Fringe.

Fringe for a Night starts at 6 pm with happy hour drinks in the Underground. At 6:45 pm we'll be unveiling the new website and giving you a run down of the 2010 Festival lineup. at 7:30 pm, we'll all move upstairs for a performance by one of the most attended shows in the history of the Fringe Festival, 7(x1) Samurai.

The new website has been designed free lance graphic artist Matt Steffen of Enin Productions (eninproductions.com). Matt has also served as the Chair of the Visual Fringe Selection Committee for the past two years. The website is being built and hosted by Shawn Mummert of Cincinnati Creative Partners. Shawn has worked in various capacities with Enjoy the Arts and recently helped launch the new Fine Arts Fund website. He was also one of only a handful of people to see every single show in the 2009 Fringe Festival while working as a reviewer for the Fringe's Official Blog theconveyor.com.

"We've needed a website overhaul for a while. The stars finally aligned when Shawn and Matt agreed to help create a new site for us. They are both amazing at what they do and have been so generous with their time on this project. I'm so pleased to have them as a part of our Community," says managing artistic director, Eric Vosmeier.

David Gaines will be performing 7(x1) Samurai, in a special appearance for this event. Kurosawa's epic tale of victimized peasants, marauding bandits, and samurai warriors - is retold at comic breakneck pace, through movement, by one exhausted and ridiculous actor. This piece is performed in an original energetic style with accompanying gibberish and vocal sound effects. This unusual style of theatre is like Kill Bill meets The Magnificent Seven in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. It is original, different, riveting to watch, and very funny.

"I had the greatest time at the Cincy Fringe Festival last summer," says David Gaines, "so when Eric Vosmeier called me in DC to ask if I would come back for one special performance only, I said I'd be delighted to. I'm looking forward to a return engagement in the city that brought me the warmest and fullest audiences of my whole year's touring."

David Gaines studied for two years at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France, after which he formed The Moving Picture Mime Show in London - which toured Europe and the world for 10 years. He then accepted M. Lecoq's invitation to join him on the faculty of the Ecole Lecoq as a professor of mask and movement. Since leaving Paris, he has taught workshops around the U.S. and acted in plays from Waiting for Godot to The Brothers Karamazov. He taught for three years at the UMKC graduate school of Theatre before moving to the DC area. He is a member of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, has co-written and directed two shows for YBY Theatre in Salzburg, Austria, and recently has created two new solo pieces: A Little Business At the Big Top, performed at the 2008 NY Clown Festival; and his acclaimed 7 (x 1) Samurai opened (and was voted "Best Solo Performance") in the 2008 Capital Fringe Festival, then ran for 6 weeks and sold out at the Warehouse Theatre in Washington DC.

Here's the lineup:
6:00 pm - Doors Open Happy Hour begins

6:45 pm - cincyfringe.com unveiling, 2010 Fringe lineup announcement and other special surprises

7:30 pm - 7(x1) Samurai by David Gaines

9:00 pm on - Bar Series for a Night

A cash bar will be available during this event.

Tickets are required for entry into 7(x1) Samurai performance and are $12 in advance and $15 on the day of show.

Entry to the Underground for the website unveiling and Fringe Festival line-up announcement is free and open to the public. You can purchase online www.knowtheatre.com or call the Know Theatre box office at (513) 300-KNOW (5669).

 

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