'FRUIT FLIES', KAFKA AND SON and More to Close Out Soho's Fringe Encore Series
By: BWW News Desk Oct. 10, 2017
SoHo Playhouse's Fringe Encore Series, has presented 16 productions from Fringe Festivals from around the globe including Adelaide, Brighton, Hollywood, Edinburgh and Winnipeg Fringe Festivals. The festival began September 5 and will end on October 22, 2017. Tickets are $29-$49 and can be purchased by visiting www.sohoplayhouse.com. Please check website for the most up to date schedule.
This year's shows included from Winnipeg Fringe Festival - 6 Guitars, Josephine, Edgar Allen, Fruit Flies Like a Banana: World Tour, Macbeth Muet; from Edinburgh - Enterprise, Kafika and Son, The Kinsey Sicks: Things You Shouldn't Say, and Shit I'm In Love With You Again; from Brighton Identity Crisis, Mengele, Trippin, Shell Shock; from Adelaide- Jimeoin: Ridiculous, Fafi D'alour and The Delinquents; and from Hollywood Blamed: An Established Fiction, Turbulence! Just Like Life.
Remaining show are Fruit Flies Like a Banana: World Tour, Kafika and Son, Just Like Life and Turbulence!
FRUIT FLIES LIKE A BANANA: WORLD TOUR - created by The Fourth Wall
Fruit Flies Like a Banana, a neo-vaudeville performance by the musicians/actors/dancers of The Fourth Wall, has become a perennial favorite among fringe festival audiences and critics across North America. This season's installment, Fruit Flies Like a Banana: WORLD TOUR, is a madcap trip around the globe, with each piece inspired by a different locale and an itinerary chosen by the audience. The Fourth Wall combines stellar musicianship with daring physicality to make music that leaps off the stage. The Massachusetts-based ensemble will make its Off-Broadway debut at the SoHo Playhouse in October, rounding out a coast-to-coast tour which included the Orlando, Winnipeg, Minnesota, and Edmonton Fringe Festivals.
"Serious music by seriously talented musicians in a show that doesn't take itself seriously at all" (CBC). Fruit Flies Like a Banana, a neo-vaudeville performance by the musicians/actors/dancers of The Fourth Wall, has become a perennial favorite among fringe festival audiences and critics across North America. This season's installment, Fruit Flies Like a Banana: WORLD TOUR, is a madcap trip around the globe, with each piece inspired by a different locale and an itinerary chosen by the audience.
KAFIKA AND SON by Alon Nashman
At age 36, Franz Kafka wrote a monumental letter to his overbearing father that would change the course of his life and fiction forever. A blistering, often hilarious, dissection of domestic authority, Kafka and Son is a revelatory visit with one of the architects of the modern psyche.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/31547581
JUST LIKE LIFE by Donovan Glover
In this absurdist comedy, Hey-Zeus sits on the toilet in his pristine, white kitchen, as Quote Mamma feeds him jello and wisdom. Their lives are filled with daydreams and repetition, but they're darn good Americans who faithfully read the newspaper and pray for their President. "Just Like Life," written as a tirade against the political and social climate of the early 1990s, is even more pertinent in today's world.
Winner of UCLA's 'Best New Play of the Year' (1992)
Encore Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival (2017),
TVolution's Fringe Gold Medal Award (2017).
TURBULENCE! created by Robot Teammate
From the creators of THUG TUNNEL comes the original musical TURBULENCE!, a fast and farcical race through space. The 4242 Intergalympics are finally here, and it's up to the crew of the S.S. Albacore to prove that Earth isn't the shabby dirt turd the Martians think it is. Ready. Set. Space!
2017 Hollywood International Fringe Festival winner: Best Musical, Best World Premiere, A Little New Music's Outstanding Songwriting Award, Better Lemons' Critics Choice Award 2017.
Now in its 12th season, the Fringe International Encore Series will continue to celebrate the "Best of the Fests" despite there not being a New York International Fringe Festival. This year's selection committee has looked to renowned Fringe Festivals around the globe including Adelaide, Brighton, Edinburgh, Winnipeg and Hollywood Fringe Festivals to fill the slate for the coveted encore performances slots.
The Fringe Encore Series was created to provide opportunities to those Fringe shows that excelled over other Fringe productions both artistically and commercial, by offering them an extended run at the historic SoHo Playhouse. This extended run gives these worthy shows a platform for future productions and success. Many of the previous productions featured in the series have gone on to extensive Off-Broadway runs and international success including such as Drama Desk Nominees Krapp 39 (FringeNYC 2008), Jamaica Farewell (FringeNYC 2009), Triassic Parq (FringeNYC 2012), We Live By The Sea (Edinburgh 2016) and Rap Guide To Religion (Edinburgh Fringe 2015).
SOHO PLAYHOUSE serves the downtown theater community as an historic 199 seat Off-Broadway venue. It was on this stage that Mr. Albee produced many first works of Terrance McNally, John Guare, Lanford Wilson, Sam Shephard, AR Gurney and LeRoi Jones. The Playhouse is on a mission to preserve and protect the wonderful artists that make up Off-Broadway's downtown theatre scene. Darren Lee Cole has been artistic director since 2004.
Fringe Encore Series (Britt Lafield- Founder) was created as a learning center and stepping stone for the young talent and amazing productions that are a part of The New York International Fringe Festival every August in New York City. Now having expanded to include the largest Fringe Festivals in the world, Fringe Encore Series presents, promotes and educates the "best of" productions from each festival and allows more time for theater going public to catch the fresh new voices of today's theater.
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