The set-up takes us to a livestreamed fundraiser from the home of Meera, a young Indian American woman whose dream is to operate a successful South Indian restaurant in the U.S.
The play is an ambitious attempt to make a statement about the complexities of communication and creatively used Twitter as a model for how people naturally seek out clear, sometimes binary answers to nuanced issues in our lives.
"YOLO" embraces the form and gives us a fully produced film with resonant music, editing and photography, much more than a recording of a play and perfect for a Fringe Festival. It’s amazing to watch.
It’s hard to imagine a better metaphor for the past year under COVID-19 — and how the arts have been affected — than You Will Live Under the Sea, a wildly imaginative 2021 Cincy Fringe video-on-demand production from Queen City Flash
Instructions for a Habitat Inventory, a presentation from Playable Artworks in Minneapolis, is described as an “interactive meditation on place that you play at home,” an excellent way to put it.
A look back at this review from 2016's Fringe: "Well, you don’t see something like that every day." That was my reaction immediately after watching The Unrepentant Necrophile, the latest offering from The Coldharts.
A struggling comedian lapses into a coma; his health fails to the point that his friends and family say their goodbyes — even penning eulogies on Facebook — and plan to take him off life-support
This is exactly the kind of show that Fringe Festivals are about: unconventional material, decidedly non-commercial, told in a skilled and creative way.
Jess Bryant and Peter Seifarth have trained for the last decade in a combination of circus performance, commedia dell’arte and various styles of physical theatre.