2019 Fringe Festival Spotlight: Spooky Shows
Start spooky season a month early with these hair-raising performances by eight of our independent artists.
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Gunnar Montana
Gunnar Montana transports us once again, this time downward into the dark depths of terror. Follow one man’s frightening descent into deranged madness and witness his unrelenting, visceral nightmare unfold. Graphic content.
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Red Lodge, Montana
The Antidote
A mysterious death. An enigmatic detective. And some damn fine huckleberry pie. Inspired by the work of filmmaker David Lynch, Red Lodge, Montana will immerse you in a nightmare world of danger, desire, and doppelgängers. (Pie not included.)
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our ouija board, the games we played, the shit we conjured, & the dead dude we hate-fucked
ON THE ROCKS: Elaina Di Monaco & Haygen-Brice Walker
ouija boards | necrophilia | Kelly Rowland | yearbooks | Satan | ya fiction | sexual perversions | kitten play | instas | finstas | high school reunions | dog attacks | mascots | christianity | lesbians | crocodile teeth | passing notes | road head | celebrity ghost hunters | gotta sign a waiver
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bilialien
Annie Wilson
several short new works, one performed in blackout. let us construct a vessel made with sinusoids, capillaries, tentacles. let it be unconcerned with survival, more concerned with gulping and discharging through as many portals as it can.
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Fear Itself
The Hum’n’bards
We live with fear everyday. Fear Itself takes the audience on a tour through a real historical cemetery to explore the concept of fear, the lost souls we encounter along the way, and the choices we get to make to either save these souls or leave them behind.
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Empanada Loca
Recondite Tourist Activities
Deep underground, underneath the subways, Dolores is waiting to tell her story. A story of gentrification, survival, and murder inspired by the legend of Sweeney Todd, Empanada Loca is a solo Grand Guignol of one woman’s fight to survive in a bloody-minded world of reckless consumerism.
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NecroPhillyAhhh: A FUNeral Cabaret
REV Theatre Company
Tap your toes and drink yourself to death with three departed singing souls as they journey between this world and the next. Imbibe with the embalmed with music from Bessie Smith to the Scissors and Cole Porter to Sonny and Cher. A cabaret unlike anything you’ve seen before with wild, mysterious, haunting, wickedly funny, macabre entertainment.
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Richard III
Hestia Theatre Company
Three Richards. Six women. Ninety minutes. This infamous play will be performed in one of the city’s most historic
sites. Hestia Theatre Company teams up with Christ Church Burial Ground’s 300th anniversary. Whether you are new to Shakespeare or a well-seasoned lover of verse, this all-female production has something for you.
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