Pittsburgh Fringe Performances

Thursday

July 20

10:00 PM   (TOP)

Andre Heuer  "Out to Lunch with Andre"   (TOP)

In this humorous, poignant, and compassionate fusion of poetry, movement, and stories taken from his life Andre shares his encounters with those walking the fine line between sanity and insanity.

Content warning: Adult subject matter

Cathryn Fairlee  "Conversations with a Synner "  (TOP)

A Chautauqua-styled chat with Queen Kateryn Parr, last wife to Henry VIII as history becomes HERStory with attitude, gossip and wit. She wrote bestsellers, knew all her predecessors, tutored Elizabeth I, eluded arrest for heresy and never lost her head!

Content warning: None

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Friday   (TOP)

July 21

4:00 PM

Michele Belluomini "Visions to Heal the World"  (TOP)

Chant, movement and story propel the audience into the heart of Mexico's legendary Sierra Madre mountains to experience the ancient folktales of the mysterious Huichol Indians.

Content warning: none

10:00 PM

Yvonne Healy "Ballyhoo"  (TOP)

Bal' e'-hu, n. 1. a village is southern Ireland. 2. sensational uproar; blarney. 3. tales at least true on the inside from Yvonne's Irish and American homes.

Content warning: Adult subject matter

10:00 PM

Cora Hook/Mary Wright "A Couple of Cronies"  (TOP)

Facing 50 in the 21st Century: Polar ice caps melting, extremists attacking, my mother's face staring back from the mirror. What is there to do? Mary and Cora attempt to midwife their midlife.

Content warning: wildly liberal female language use

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Saturday   (TOP)

July 22

1:30 PM

Bob Reiser "An Evening with Grandpa Abe & Uncle Ahmet"  (TOP)

Dueling storytellers in old Baghdad vie to become the royal tale-spinner. Trading jokes, love stories and insults from their Jewish and Muslim traditions, distrust becomes enmity, which becomes….

Content warning: none

3:30 PM

Marie Winger  "Fairytale Fugue"   (TOP)

A shot of "into the Woods", a splash of archetype, a measure of metaphor, a twist of "Fractured Fairy Tales" with a chaser of wry wit. Stirred not shaken.

Content warning: none

7:45 PM

Lyn Ford "The Earthly Side of Paradise"    (TOP)

New versions of old, "earthly" stories when Papa, Mama and Granny gods and goddesses created and walked the earth, talked with all creation, invented and "merchandised" sex, and laughed.

Content warnings: language, adult subject matter

Joan Leotta "A Time to Heal"  (TOP)

A Civil War nurse realizes that, in spite of her personal losses, while healing other's physical wounds, she must heal herself, her patient's hearts and the nation itself.

Content warning: Adult subject matter

9:15 PM

Judith Black "Invisible"  (TOP)

Goodbye sexual vibrancy, goodbye power, place, privilege. Welcome, cronehood. A new sympathy grows for Snow White's momma as we explore a woman's aging and changing relationship to the male world.

Content warning: Adult subject matter

10:45 PM

Jean Armstrong "Dating and Other Questionable Acts or The SINGLE Question"  (TOP)

Aging single brings out the world's worst questions! Comedic stories for anyone single or who has been! A must see for marrieds, singles and others!
Content Warning: Adult subject matter

10:45 PM

Patricia Hruby Powell  "Moving"  (TOP)

At 19, a dancer fled to the Greek islands in search of Mt. Olympus, departed for London where she found £400; then from town to countryside, in pursuit of dance and life.

Content warning: Adult subject matter

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