More festivities, and more splurging
Jul. 29th, 2006 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenora_roseNew ones to add to the score. If you're keeping track, this makes 21 shows (One of which I'd seen before), with 2-3 more to go. A slightly low year: I *think* my record is 28-29, but that included a couple of repeats (I know my highest record without repeating shows IS 26.)
Plus, of course, there are all the people you see once a year (or only slightly more) to catch up with.
Volunteering does wonders for how much you can get to, and who you see.
Don't Miss!
Cabarlesque - Oh, I was right about this. Excellent dancing, excellent singing, some sexy skin but no nudity. The locales it's set in are Berlin '33, Amsterdam '67, and New York 2006.
The Excursionists - Comedic steampunk. The warning flag for the show lists "rampant Imperialism", but that's just beign true to source. Very silly, very good.
Pretty darn good
Zombies: A Love Story - A young man late for work starts to get glimpses of the lives of the people around him, some so grey the people might as well be zombies, but a handful in colour. Now he has to choose...
Living Shadows: A Tale of Mary Pickford - Interesting subject, a silent screen icon whose name I'd barely heard of (Which puts me ahead of some). The denouement I think went about 2 minutes too long, there was a moment I think would have made a fantabulous closing shot just before the last monologue. Before that, spot on.
Still Good
Britchick - stand up comedy about Britain (surprise surprise) and Canada, from a woman who's a bit of both. Alex Dallas is one of the longest running Fringe Standards, and based on this show, she's probably earned the spot, but I don't thnk I'd have felt I were missing anything if I missed her.
Drumheller - more strange black comedy. Two young missionaries, and two investigative reporters looking for missing persons converge on the home of an old bored couple in Drumheller, a small Albertan town most famous for once having found major dinosaur fossils. What the heck all is going on isn't really clear until the end.
Montana - Harry Rintoul play about three people dreaming of a better place.
So far, I've seen one show I would say to avoid. (Although there are two others I'd politely suggest other people shun, should they tell me they were going.)
Still hope to catch by the end of the festival:
The Exquisite Hour (ETA: Another Really Good. Although it might be hard for some to buy into the premise that the way to get someone's attention is to be an Encyclopedia Salesperson.)
Letters in Wartime (ETA: Don't Miss. Maybe the don't miss of the Festival.)
Canned Hamlet (ETA: Didn't make it, don't regret it much. In spite of their borrowing from classical sources, their sense of humour is very lowbrow, and they're loads of fun but hardly life-changing.)
(Alas, Ill timing forced me to miss The Great Love of Queen Victoria and the Flamenco/hip-hop fusion. There's always at least one that gets away.)
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I did get Blood and Iron and Mélusine (And four books on a seriously discounted table for $3.00 each, plus a $5.00 shell necklace.) Since mom's gift included 3 more CDs, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed with music -- and now I've cut myself off book-buying until my stack to read is reduced to a single row on the shelf again. This shouldn't take me *too long*).
I anticipated either leaping into the former or putting them bth aside until such time as I have finished Crystal Rain, which was supposed to be next. But I flipped open Mélusine and read the first page. And kept going....
Plus, of course, there are all the people you see once a year (or only slightly more) to catch up with.
Volunteering does wonders for how much you can get to, and who you see.
Don't Miss!
Cabarlesque - Oh, I was right about this. Excellent dancing, excellent singing, some sexy skin but no nudity. The locales it's set in are Berlin '33, Amsterdam '67, and New York 2006.
The Excursionists - Comedic steampunk. The warning flag for the show lists "rampant Imperialism", but that's just beign true to source. Very silly, very good.
Pretty darn good
Zombies: A Love Story - A young man late for work starts to get glimpses of the lives of the people around him, some so grey the people might as well be zombies, but a handful in colour. Now he has to choose...
Living Shadows: A Tale of Mary Pickford - Interesting subject, a silent screen icon whose name I'd barely heard of (Which puts me ahead of some). The denouement I think went about 2 minutes too long, there was a moment I think would have made a fantabulous closing shot just before the last monologue. Before that, spot on.
Still Good
Britchick - stand up comedy about Britain (surprise surprise) and Canada, from a woman who's a bit of both. Alex Dallas is one of the longest running Fringe Standards, and based on this show, she's probably earned the spot, but I don't thnk I'd have felt I were missing anything if I missed her.
Drumheller - more strange black comedy. Two young missionaries, and two investigative reporters looking for missing persons converge on the home of an old bored couple in Drumheller, a small Albertan town most famous for once having found major dinosaur fossils. What the heck all is going on isn't really clear until the end.
Montana - Harry Rintoul play about three people dreaming of a better place.
So far, I've seen one show I would say to avoid. (Although there are two others I'd politely suggest other people shun, should they tell me they were going.)
Still hope to catch by the end of the festival:
The Exquisite Hour (ETA: Another Really Good. Although it might be hard for some to buy into the premise that the way to get someone's attention is to be an Encyclopedia Salesperson.)
Letters in Wartime (ETA: Don't Miss. Maybe the don't miss of the Festival.)
Canned Hamlet (ETA: Didn't make it, don't regret it much. In spite of their borrowing from classical sources, their sense of humour is very lowbrow, and they're loads of fun but hardly life-changing.)
(Alas, Ill timing forced me to miss The Great Love of Queen Victoria and the Flamenco/hip-hop fusion. There's always at least one that gets away.)
___________________________
I did get Blood and Iron and Mélusine (And four books on a seriously discounted table for $3.00 each, plus a $5.00 shell necklace.) Since mom's gift included 3 more CDs, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed with music -- and now I've cut myself off book-buying until my stack to read is reduced to a single row on the shelf again. This shouldn't take me *too long*).
I anticipated either leaping into the former or putting them bth aside until such time as I have finished Crystal Rain, which was supposed to be next. But I flipped open Mélusine and read the first page. And kept going....
