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New Orleans Fringe Invites Audiences to Open the Cages for Adult Petting Zoo May 6-8
Contact: Kristen Evans at kristen@nofringe.org or 504-941-3640
April 7, 2010 — On May 6th, 7th, and 8th, New Orleans Fringe presents the second annual Adult Petting Zoo, transforming the Marigny Theatre and Allways Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Avenue, into a den of theater antics and live unnatural acts. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased online at www.nofringe.org or at the door. Raising an eyebrow and asking yourself, “Hmmm, just what is an Adult Petting Zoo?”? In addition to being a brazen initiative of FATI, the Fringe Alternative Theatre Incubator, and a welcoming platform for challenging, risky performances, Adult Petting Zoo brings together a range of original theater for a weekend affair that is titillating, thought-provoking, and fun.
Emilie Whelan, newly anointed Performance Coordinator for the New Orleans Fringe, is thrilled to direct this event because, as she pronounces with an irresistibly come-hither allure, “there is nothing too big, too bold, or too dangerous for Fringe.” Jazz Hand Job returns from Providence, RI with the Fringe Festival favorite, “Rigorous Disco of Doom,” reinvented as the main feature. A crackpot swamp wedding turns into zombie mayhem as “Rigorous Disco of Doom” celebrates the writhing undead with exploding mirror balls and throbbing suits of sound. This dark dance of comedy is by turns gruesome and jubilant; a sepulchral story of love, lust and lascivious last rites.
Foreplay is on offer, to suit a variety of tastes - audience members are invited to circulate through a number of “exhibits” in the lounge. Goat in the Road Productions takes us behind the curtain of government “in action” as our legislators wrestle with each other over morality and pornography in an interactive installation piece, “The Meese Papers - A Government Mandated Performance Investigation”. Skin Horse Theater plays doctor on issues of gender and sex in a surrealist night club variety act based on a medical treatise in "Psychopathia Sexualis with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual Instinct". Local playwright, Gabrielle Reisman works the street performance life, Monique Moss draws out passions through her delirious dance and Alyson Perry teasingly plays with what it is to be a clown.
FATI aims to maintain the creative spirit of the Fringe Festival and promote the cultural economy of New Orleans year-round. And while there are family-oriented events on our annual calendar, Adult Petting Zoo is specifically for our more mature audiences, ages 18 and up. So, in addition to fearless, provocative theater, audiences can anticipate boundaries to be pushed, cages to be opened, and a profusion of petting.
Marigny Theatre 2240 St. Claude Ave.
May 6th, 7th at 8 pm
May 8th at 8pm and Midnight
$15 online www.nofringe.org or at the door.
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The Fringe is a 501(c)3 non-profit that was founded by local arts organizers to nurture fearless theater in New Orleans and to benefit artists, venues, neighborhoods and local businesses. For more information, visit www.nofringe.org
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Fringe Encore July 30, 31, August 1 2009
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Contact: Kristen Evans 504-941-3640 or kristen@nofringe.org
Fringe announces an encore weekend with The Tragical Ballad of Black Bonnet plus new original stage and screen pieces
July 6, 2009, NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans Fringe announces encore evenings of Fringe with the return of The Tragical Ballad of Black Bonnet, plus new original pieces, in an incredible lineup of creative madness on strings, screen and stage. A favorite from the 2008 Festival, The Tragical Ballad of Black Bonnet is an original puppet operetta based on the true story of an intersexed housemaid in 16th century Scotland. The tale follows the plight of Black Bonnet, the kitchen maid, as she and Liliana, the Landlord’s lovely daughter, fall madly in love. Can boundless romance survive on strings in a tiny world?! Music, mania, and marionettes. Created and performed by New Orleans’ Black Forest Fancies, Black Bonnet was one of the audience favorites in the 2008 Festival.
The full evening of Fringe includes The Tableclothe Palimpsest, bizarre and otherworldly stop-animation films of award-winning local film-maker Thomas Little, shot on Super-8 and projected by the creator. Audiences are also treated to the premiere of a wild new multimedia performance with video, aerial, puppetry and music called The Legend of Suzie Sidesaddle, an eerie ghost story about a mechanical doll, created and performed by Ratty Scurvics and Oops the Clown.
At the Marigny Theatre, 2240 St. Claude Avenue in the Marigny in New Orleans. Showtimes: July 30, 31 at 8 pm and August 1 at 8 pm and 11 pm. Ages 18 and up. Tickets are $12, available at the door or online. We encourage buying tickets ahead of time at the New Orleans Fringe Web site: www.nofringe.org
Fringe Alternative Theater Incubator (FATI)
New Orleans Fringe announces the Fringe Alternative Theater Incubator (FATI) a program to nurture original performance and risk-taking productions in New Orleans. This encore production of The Tragical Ballad of Black Bonnet marks the second of the FATI encore series, where successful Festival productions are coupled with new pieces to launch mini-Fringe showcases throughout the year. FATI gives performers an opportunity to fully realize the potential of their shows and to showcase new work. The first FATI production, Adult Petting Zoo, brought New York artist Gabrielle Penabaz back to New Orleans to present her sold-out Fringe show Sex Crimes together with three new original pieces by local artists. FATI is supported in part by a grant from the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation.
