If anything there are more venues this year, but they seem to be more scattered.
Last year there were 2 or 3 very nice stages in the theater building for Minneapolis Community College (or whatever the little college north of Loring Park is called). Those have been replaced by 3 or 4 stages in Rarig Center, on the West Bank. I doubt that had anything to do with accessibility. The Loring Playhouse and some odd stage on the south end of the park have dropped out (those may have been the ones with the accessibility issues, as they were both on 2nd floors of old buildings).
There are more oddball theaters this year, used for only one production. Three of the shows I want to see are in that category:
- The Depth of the Ocean, staged in the downtown YWCA, is described thusly: "Five survivors of various ocean disasters cross time and space, winding up on a single liferaft floating in the deep. Performed entirely on the water, this piece explores the fear and confusion all survivors face."
- 1926 Pleasant is staged at that address. It is apparently some kind of walking participatory murder mystery.
- The Rats in the Walls, based on Lovecraft's story, is staged at the Mill City Museum.
- there are also one-off shows of some kind at the Steeple People Thrift Store, a high school and a park building(?).
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Re: Fringe Festival Venues
Date: 2006-08-03 09:49 pm (UTC)Last year there were 2 or 3 very nice stages in the theater building for Minneapolis Community College (or whatever the little college north of Loring Park is called). Those have been replaced by 3 or 4 stages in Rarig Center, on the West Bank. I doubt that had anything to do with accessibility. The Loring Playhouse and some odd stage on the south end of the park have dropped out (those may have been the ones with the accessibility issues, as they were both on 2nd floors of old buildings).
There are more oddball theaters this year, used for only one production. Three of the shows I want to see are in that category:
- The Depth of the Ocean, staged in the downtown YWCA, is described thusly: "Five survivors of various ocean disasters cross time and space, winding up on a single liferaft floating in the deep. Performed entirely on the water, this piece explores the fear and confusion all survivors face."
- 1926 Pleasant is staged at that address. It is apparently some kind of walking participatory murder mystery.
- The Rats in the Walls, based on Lovecraft's story, is staged at the Mill City Museum.
- there are also one-off shows of some kind at the Steeple People Thrift Store, a high school and a park building(?).