Join us for Scratch Nights at Fringe!
Monday, June 9 at 7PM
This long-running works-in-progress series is an opportunity for artists and audiences to connect. See experimental works at various stages of development – from the first spark of something new to an excerpt of a finished piece. Come discover new artists or see an exciting debut from a longtime favorite.
Each Scratch Night a handful of artists from across disciplines will bring an informal showing of something they’re working on – and you’ll have a front row seat to their process. Stay for a drink, chat with artists and audiences about what you saw, and provide vital feedback that will help with the development of the work.
Scratch Nights are PWYC ticketing starting from $0. All ticketing proceeds generated will be split amongst the participating artists!
JUNE 9, 7PM
LINE-UP
Free Fall – Free Fleet (Curt Haworth)
A lightly scored real-time composition of sound and movement.
Terms of Use: A Millennial Farce – Angela Harmon
This is select staged reading of an early scene of the play. It’s a brainstorming session among anthropologist coworkers as they try to piece together the story on a non-urgent deadline.
The 40-Year-Old Ballerino – Chris Davis
At 40 years old, Chris Davis seizes on ballet class as a way to replace all other addictions — drugs, alcohol, Modern Family, and the toxic tropes of 90s John Cusack movies. With only a barre for support, Fringe favorite Chris Davis mixes dance and storytelling in a 50-minute comedy that shows you change is always possible, no matter what your age.
Excerpt from Queers in a Thrift Store With Monsters – Produced by Theatre by Development
Queers in a Thrift Store With Monsters is a dynamic queer sci-fi comedy that explores the age old question: Can you ever really be “just friends” with your ex? Just before this scene, Boo ventures beyond her basement home for the first time ever, and realizes that her siblings are hiding an entire world from her. Directed by Max Segarnick; script by Eliana Berson; performed by Blake Laisure, Avi Fidler, and Kai Scott.
Study for Dance and Violin (working title) – Nerissa Tunnessen and Sam Xiao Cody
Currently untitled, this work is a short study for one dancer and one violinist exploring restlessness that exists in the capitalist culture of self isolation. Building from our continued research on forming physical connections in the performance space to close the gap between musician and dancer, much of the work focuses on contact and partner work that is possible given the limitations of one person playing a delicate instrument. As queer performers who tend towards social anxiety, the framing and inspiration for this particular study is seeped in our own experiences of para-social relationships and self isolation that leave us wanting for connection. Beginning and ending in slow, solo movement, the piece builds into a curious, then obsessive, and perhaps controlling, relationship portrayed through partnered exploration before falling apart and dissolving back into individualistic, self-interested routine.
