Fringe Performances
Fringe Sessions Subject to Change
Judy Allton, Houston, TX - True Moon Stories
Celebrate Communion on the Moon? Buzz Aldrin did. What is the Genesis rock? Astronaut Jim Irwin found it. Why did everyone in the Moon lab strip naked? To get out." -- History and Science from Apollo.
Category: Adult Solo; Content Warning: None
Denise Bennett, Richmond, VA – The Heart’s True Scale: An original fairytale for adults.
A hapless harper trapped in a deep dark cave encounters a fierce beast and the true scale of his heart (all puns intended) is tested. Beauty and the Beast with a twist- a story about the healing power of love.
Category: Adult Solo with vocal and harp music; Content Warning: Adult Subject Matter
Finn Bille, Chattanooga, TN – Bacon Fat to Peanut Butter: An Immigrant’s Story
Starting at Elsinore Castle in Denmark, I cross the stormy Atlantic, see Washington DC as a comic strip, and struggle with American Culture as I experience an epiphany in Virginia.
Category: Adult Solo; Content Warning: None
Jeff Doyle, Brighton, MI – Uptight and White
Jeff moves to Brighton, MI, only to find he's living in Uptight and White. From rainbow stickers to nude art, experience the hilarity as Jeff bucks the trend.
Category: Adult Solo; Content Warning: "PG-13" Adult Subject Matter and Language
Diane Edgecomb with Celtic harper Margot Chamberlain, Boston, MA – New Age Gawain and the Green Knight
This hilarious story and harp adaptation has Arthurian knights running for their therapists. But the greatest fun comes when three seductive female archetypes try to corrupt Gawain’s new age virtue.
Category: Adult Solo; Content Warning: None
Pete Griffin, Juneau, AK – Growing U.P. – Coming of Age in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Stories from the early years of this “Yooper” in Upper Michigan including rats invading our town, sleeping in the cabin of a murdered man, and dealing with Mom’s arrest warrant
Category: Adult Solo; Content Warning: Language (mild)
Lori Hansen, Rexburg, ID - Becoming an Honorary Crone
This one-woman show chronicles, through stories and song in a humorous but poignant way, the journey in a woman’s life, as she moves from maiden, to mother, to crone.
Category: Adult Solo; Content Warning: None
Jeff Leinaweaver, Bainbridge Island, WA – Wild Minds in Uncertain Times
In a high tech world, humanity needs connection to the aliveness of living myth. A wild mind needs story as a way to sing the stories of the living world; a way of bringing wisdom, engagement, and insight to the greater human tribe. Enjoy an evening of mythsinging, reflection and ritual dialogue to enliven us in the ways of re-wilding our minds in uncertain times.
Category: Adult Solo Improvisational; Content Warning: None
Bernadette Nason, Austin, TX – Tea in Tripoli
Between the Mediterranean and the Sahara, in a dangerous land of strict rules and rule-breaking expatriates, a naive Englishwoman can get into trouble! Experience life in Tripoli, Libya c. 1984
Category: Adult Solo, Anecdotal; Content Warning: Adult Subject Matter (dangerous situations) and Language (mild)
Sarah Beth Nelson, Norcross, GA – Naughty Bits
A collection of humorous stories having to do with human bodies and some of the parts that make us giggle.
Category: Adult Solo; Content Warning: Adult Subject Matter and Language
Mike Speller, Crest Hill, IL - The Wendigo
Algernon Blackwood’s tale of a hunting party that becomes hunted and haunted by a legendary beast in the Canadian wilderness.
Category: Adult Solo; Content Warning: None
Dennis Strain, Philadelphia, PA – Celtic Heroines
For over two thousand years, the images of Etain, Deidre and Emer have stirred the imagination and kindled the spirit. Storyteller Dennis Strain brings their magic to modern listeners.
Category: Adult Solo; Content Warning: Adult Subject Matter
