Fringe Day 9 - Friday
Aug. 10th, 2007 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamshark8:00 PM the limitation of sight * * * *
Presented by Country Waif Productions at Bryant-Lake Bowl
Another of those serendipitous discoveries - I just picked this one because I biked to/from work, and BLB is literally on my way home - right next to the Bryant exit from the Midtown Bikeway. That, and they serve food. I put on a huge burst of speed and made it all the way from Eden Prairie in 50 minutes, hooked a great spot right in the front row of the tiered seats, and managed to order a beer and quesadillas just as the lights went down. All that, and the show was good too! It was just a sweet little 2-person play about relationships: no manic surrealism, no multimedia extravaganzas, and (thank God) no puppets. The situation was one of those personal crises that is really only possible to take seriously when you're about 20 years old. But the actors really WERE about 20 years old and very engaging, which made it easy to like the characters and hope that things work out for them in the long run.
Oddly enough, of the 20 or so plays I have seen so far, this may have been the first one that didn't have any cross-gender casting. There was one guy, and he was played by a guy. One girl and she was played by a girl. It actually worked pretty well. Maybe it will catch on.
Presented by Country Waif Productions at Bryant-Lake Bowl
Another of those serendipitous discoveries - I just picked this one because I biked to/from work, and BLB is literally on my way home - right next to the Bryant exit from the Midtown Bikeway. That, and they serve food. I put on a huge burst of speed and made it all the way from Eden Prairie in 50 minutes, hooked a great spot right in the front row of the tiered seats, and managed to order a beer and quesadillas just as the lights went down. All that, and the show was good too! It was just a sweet little 2-person play about relationships: no manic surrealism, no multimedia extravaganzas, and (thank God) no puppets. The situation was one of those personal crises that is really only possible to take seriously when you're about 20 years old. But the actors really WERE about 20 years old and very engaging, which made it easy to like the characters and hope that things work out for them in the long run.
Oddly enough, of the 20 or so plays I have seen so far, this may have been the first one that didn't have any cross-gender casting. There was one guy, and he was played by a guy. One girl and she was played by a girl. It actually worked pretty well. Maybe it will catch on.
