Interstate Fringe To Feature Four Shows From New Orleans and Houston

Interstate Fringe is a new mini-festival featuring four shows that rocked the New Orleans and Houston Fringe Festivals. The complete lineup will be presented each night for two dates only, Friday and Saturday March 18 and 19 at 8 pm at Michalopoulos Studio, 527 Elysian Fields. Tickets are $15 and available at the door or online at www.nofringe.org.

Audiences will want to catch the return of two hugely successful shows from the New Orleans Fringe, including the outrageously funny "Our Man" by Goat in the Road Productions and the passionate, beautiful and clever "The Divine Feminine" by Chard Gonzalez Dance Theatre. Houston Fringe is bringing two of their own audience favorites with "Yes, Cassandra", the wrenching introspections of the doomed priestess, and "Rogue Improv", inventive, side-splitting one-of-kind group improv like you have never seen before. All four pieces will be presented both Friday and Saturday nights.

Interstate Fringe is a new partnership between the New Orleans Fringe and Houston Fringe to create touring opportunities for local performing groups and to treat audiences to successful Fringe shows from other cities. The following weekend, March 25 and 26, the same lineup will appear in Houston on the stages of FrenetiCore, the host of the Houston Fringe.

"We know that New Orleans artists want more opportunities to tour, and New Orleans audiences always want to see new work. Building on the existing network of Fringes is an organic way to create those connections," says Fringe Performance Coordinator Emilie Whelan.

Interstate Fringe will be a mini-festival of all types of original, boundary-blurring theater, including comedy, dance, drama, improv and more.

"Our Man" is a hilarious, sharp-as-tacks performance where two men in a box decide to elect a tennis racquet named Ronald Reagan their president and narrate the life and accomplishments of one of the nation's most controversial leaders, "The Gipper". Through clever and comical half truths and brutal mudslinging tactics, the two find themselves arguing their way from small towns in the Midwest to Europe on the front lines of WWII, all the while deciding whether or not to elect their only possession, an old wooden tennis racquet, their President.

"The Divine Feminine" features Chard Gonzalez Dance Theatre's cast of amazing performers as they take you on a ride through conflict and mayhem due to the seduction of a goddess, the wrath of a bitter queen, the marvel of a heroine plus other divine women and their boy-toys.

"Yes, Cassandra" performed by Brandy Holmes, is a re-envisioning of Aeschylus' Trojan War from the perspective of Cassandra...She sees her family slain and the Trojan War lost. She sees King Agamemnon take her as a concubine and sail back to his homeland. She sees the brutal murder of Agamemnon and herself at the hand of his wife, Clytemnestra. She sees, she knows, she falls into madness while trying to come to terms with her own mortality. If you could know the exact moment and cause of your death, would you want to?

"Rogue Improv" is sidesplitting improv like you have never seen before as they create a completely improvised, unscripted, 30 minute continuous theatrical universe.

For more details and tickets in New Orleans visit www.nofringe.org and in Houston visit www.freneticore.net.

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