Minnesota Fringe Festival

Aunt Dicey Channels Moms Mabley

by Nothando Zulu

Ages 18+ Improv, Comedy

Venue: Bryant-Lake Bowl

Nothando Zulu's alter ego, "Aunt Dicey", presents commedienne Jackie "Moms" Mabley's humor about relationships through the Southern, snuff dipping voice of the feisty senior citizen from Virginia.

Fri., Jul. 31 @ 5:30 p.m. Sat., Aug. 1 @ 1:00 p.m. Tue., Aug. 4 @ 10:00 p.m. Thu., Aug. 6 @ 10:00 p.m. Sat., Aug. 8 @ 5:30 p.m.

Warnings: Adult language

Alliteral Selection: The True Tale of a Wayward Wallaby

by Jane McGough

Ages 10+ Comedy, Drama

Venue: Augsburg Studio

The true story of a lost wallaby and the town, the zoo and the media that came together to find him. A true tale of benevolence, pride and determination-with a wacky twist!

Fri., Jul. 31 @ 5:30 p.m. Sun., Aug. 2 @ 2:30 p.m. Mon., Aug. 3 @ 8:30 p.m. Thu., Aug. 6 @ 10:00 p.m. Fri., Aug. 7 @ 7:00 p.m.

Anansi, Brer Rabbit and Other Wily Characters

by Black Storytellers Alliance

Ages 4+ Improv, Comedy

Venue: Playwrights' Center

Interactive Storytelling: folk tales, fairy tales and other stories of trickery and wit using well-loved animal characters primarily from the African and African American experience.

Thu., Jul. 30 @ 7:00 p.m. Sun., Aug. 2 @ 2:30 p.m. Mon., Aug. 3 @ 8:30 p.m. Fri., Aug. 7 @ 7:00 p.m. Sun., Aug. 9 @ 4:00 p.m.

Concord, Virginia: A Southern Town in Stories

by Peter Neofotis

Ages 15+ Solo, Drama

Venue: Gremlin Theatre

Neofotis performs his prize-winning stories, published by St. Martin's Press. With tales of interracial lovers, moonshining old ladies and gay trials-it's kinda like Garrison Keillor, except Southern.

Sat., Aug. 1 @ 2:30 p.m. Sun., Aug. 2 @ 7:00 p.m. Tue., Aug. 4 @ 5:30 p.m. Thu., Aug. 6 @ 10:00 p.m. Fri., Aug. 7 @ 8:30 p.m.

Warnings: Violence, Adult language

Death Camp Diaries

by Howard Lieberman/Jaded Optimist Productions

Ages 15+ Solo, Spoken word

Venue: U of M Rarig Center Xperimental

An anti-certainty secular Jew visits former concentration camps in the Czech Republic and Poland just prior to the Fringe opening. He keeps an honest diary. Prepare to laugh, cry and be challenged.

Thu., Jul. 30 @ 5:30 p.m. Fri., Jul. 31 @ 8:30 p.m. Sun., Aug. 2 @ 7:00 p.m. Wed., Aug. 5 @ 7:00 p.m. Sat., Aug. 8 @ 4:00 p.m.

Warnings: Nudity, Violence, Adult language

The man who turned into a dog/Poet in New York

by Teatro del Pueblo

Ages 12+ Puppetry, Drama

Venue: Augsburg Mainstage

An experimental work mixing a play by Osvaldo Dragún and poems by García Lorca. An expressionist look to the dehumanization of man's self-worth by unrestrained capitalism. English with some Spanish.

Thu., Jul. 30 @ 5:30 p.m. Sat., Aug. 1 @ 2:30 p.m. Tue., Aug. 4 @ 10:00 p.m. Fri., Aug. 7 @ 5:30 p.m. Sun., Aug. 9 @ 2:30 p.m.

Moby Dick Tonight

by Loren Niemi

Ages 13+ Solo, Spoken word

Venue: U of M Rarig Center Xperimental

Melville's novel of obsession retold in 50 minutes with philosophical digressions, bad jokes, erotic memoir, a suitcase full of props with an off-the-Cliff (Notes) narration on the act of storytelling itself.

Sat., Aug. 1 @ 8:30 p.m. Mon., Aug. 3 @ 5:30 p.m. Tue., Aug. 4 @ 7:00 p.m. Sat., Aug. 8 @ 1:00 p.m. Sun., Aug. 9 @ 4:00 p.m.

Warnings: Adult language

The Morning After the Summer of Love

by Scream Blue Murmur

Ages 16+ Spoken word

Venue: Intermedia Arts

1968, the year of revolt and beyond. Performance poetry from N.Ireland. Assassination, liberation, riot and revolution. Humourous, irreverent, thought provoking words and beats tackling the ripples of '68

Fri., Jul. 31 @ 7:00 p.m. Sun., Aug. 2 @ 10:00 p.m. Thu., Aug. 6 @ 7:00 p.m. Sat., Aug. 8 @ 1:00 p.m. Sun., Aug. 9 @ 7:00 p.m. Sun., Aug. 9 @ 8:30 p.m.

Warnings: Adult language

The Nightingale

by The Urban Spectrum Theatre Co.

Ages 8+ Dance, Musical theater

Venue: U of M Rarig Center Proscenium

The European Renaissance and the Harlem Renaissance collide in a delicious blend of cultures, and the Nightingale sings the blues!

Sun., Aug. 2 @ 2:30 p.m. Mon., Aug. 3 @ 8:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 5 @ 8:30 p.m. Fri., Aug. 7 @ 4:00 p.m. Sat., Aug. 8 @ 10:00 p.m.

The Saga of Nick Drillbitz and Other Hometown Heroes: Stories from Up on Da Range

by John Berquist

Ages 12+ Solo, Spoken word

Venue: Ritz Theater

Who knew these characters could linger so long, like wraiths in some misty recess of the mind, only to leap out in the here and now, full of life, with all their crazy quirks intact?

Fri., Jul. 31 @ 5:30 p.m. Sun., Aug. 2 @ 8:30 p.m. Mon., Aug. 3 @ 10:00 p.m. Wed., Aug. 5 @ 10:00 p.m. Sun., Aug. 9 @ 4:00 p.m.

The 4 Winds

by Asian Media Access

Ages 10+ Dance, Comedy

Venue: Ritz Theater

Without cell phones, without iPods and without the internet... four teen must save the world. They travel through time and space to a world of myth and legend where they come face to face with an ancient evil.

Sat., Aug. 1 @ 4:00 p.m. Sun., Aug. 2 @ 2:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 5 @ 5:30 p.m. Sat., Aug. 8 @ 7:00 p.m. Sun., Aug. 9 @ 5:30 p.m.

The Vegas Project (#1)

by Maythinee Washington

Ages 12+ Solo

Venue: Minneapolis Theatre Garage

Sin City native, Maythinee Washington, thinks Las Vegas is the most truthful city in the U.S. Her new show contrasts the bizarre and the surprisingly conventional to examine this uniquely American microcosm.

Sat., Aug. 1 @ 8:30 p.m. Mon., Aug. 3 @ 8:30 p.m. Tue., Aug. 4 @ 7:00 p.m. Fri., Aug. 7 @ 4:00 p.m. Sat., Aug. 8 @ 2:30 p.m.

Warnings: Adult language

Voyages

by New Plymouth Players

Ages 8+ Musical theater, Comedy

Venue: U of M Rarig Center Arena

A musical exploration of the stories of the world that bind us together. Why don't we live forever? Wouldn't that be nifty? Why can't we be like the moon instead of like a bunch of bananas? Come find out.

Sat., Aug. 1 @ 8:30 p.m. Sun., Aug. 2 @ 5:30 p.m. Tue., Aug. 4 @ 7:00 p.m. Wed., Aug. 5 @ 5:30 p.m. Sat., Aug. 8 @ 10:00 p.m.

WORD

by Dante' Pirtle

Ages 17+ Musical theater, Hip hop/rap

Venue: U of M Rarig Center Proscenium

An urban musical about the end of hip-hop. A musical satire starting at hip-hop culture's beginning in 1984 and ending up in the present.

Sat., Aug. 1 @ 1:00 p.m. Tue., Aug. 4 @ 5:30 p.m. Thu., Aug. 6 @ 10:00 p.m. Sat., Aug. 8 @ 1:00 p.m. Sun., Aug. 9 @ 5:30 p.m.

Warnings: Adult language, Strobe lights