2015 festival curated postcards

Art and reality, illness and normality.

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Philadelphia, PAPermit No. 5317

140 North Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19106Theater | La Peg Restaurant + Bar | Haas Biergarten | Festival Late Night

2015 Fringe FestivalSeptember 3 to 19

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This presentation of After the Rehearsal/Persona has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. After the Rehearsal/Persona is made possible in cooperation with ALMO Antwerp and Joseph Weinberger Ltd. London and The Ingmar Bergman Foundation.

After the Rehearsal/PersonaToneelgroep Amsterdam (Netherlands)Written by Ingmar Berman Directed by Ivo van HoveUS Premiere!

Sept 3–5* at 8pm170 minutes

(includes intermission) 23rd Street Armory

22 South 23rd Street (at Ranstead)Wheelchair accessible

*Post-show discussion with Peter van Kraaij, dramaturg at Toneelgroep Amsterdam,

moderated by Tom Sellar.

$35 (general) $24.50 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under)

Tickets: FringeArts.com 215.413.1318

Festival Producers Andrew and Byrna Scott

“Mr. van Hove brings us so close to a work’s white-hot emotional center that it burns as it never has before.” Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“The rehearsals were very intense and very emotional because it was about our own lives.” Ivo van Hove, director

Two Ingmar Bergman screenplays are reimagined brilliantly for the stage by celebrated Dutch director Ivo van Hove. This theatrical diptych—each play delving into the messy lives of theater artists—features deeply emotional and physical performances to match the layered psychological intensity of Bergman’s texts. Performed in Dutch with English supertitles.

Read more at FringeArts.com.

Restrictions, tensions, explosions.


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A Doll’s House is a co-commission by FringeArts and Riksteatret, and has been supported by The Norwegian Opera and Ballet and The Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs. Additional support provided by the Wyncote Foundation.

A Doll’s House Jo Strømgren Kompani (Norway)World Premiere!Sept 4 at 7pm*

Sept 5 at 2pm + 7pmSept 6 at 2pm

60 minutesFringeArts

140 North Columbus Boulevard (at Race)

Wheelchair accessible

*$45 Festival Opening Night includes show and after party with drinks and passed hors d’oeurves



More Jo Strømgren Kompani at the 2015 Fringe Festival:

The Border and THERE.

Festival Star ProducersAl and Nancy Hirsig

Festival ProducerJane G. Pepper

“When domestic disagreements arise any house feels too small.” Jo Strømgren, director

“Physical theater at its very best: daring, dark, unpredictable, and charged with compressed intensity.” The Guardian

The always adventurous Jo Strømgren recreates Henrik Ibsen’s most famous play about trust and kinship, debt and lies, envy and love with a raucous cast featuring Suli Holum, Trey Lyford, Leonard C. Haas, Mary Lee Bednarek, and Pearce Bunting. Taking respectfully irreverent liberties with the script, this Doll’s House revels the full glory of its emotional and moral battles.


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There Jo Strømgren Kompani (Norway)

Sept 9 at 6pmSept 10 at 9pmSept 11 at 6pmSept 12 at 5pm







A Doll’s House and The Border.


“The outsider look has always been linked to art—and who are more outsiders than dissidents?” Jo Strømgren, choreographer

“Strømgren elevates everyday behavior into the realms of the bizarre and the extreme.” Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice

The groundbreaking company’s most popular show features former Soviet Union dissidents stranded on a journey between East and West. By turns Vaudevillian, poetic, violent, and balletic, There is a work of dance theater about choosing the unknown or going back to what you came from. It is performed in an invented “Sovietic” language, the company’s trademark nonsensensical dialogue that sounds like a real language but isn’t.


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Cross the boundary. Enter the war.


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The Border Jo Strømgren Kompani (Norway)

Sept 9 at 9pmSept 10 at 6pmSept 11 at 9pmSept 12 at 2pm







A Doll’s House and There.


Festival Executive Producers Tobey and Mark Dichter

Festival ProducersCarol Klein and Lawrence Spitz,

David SeltzerFestival Co-Producers

Norman and Suzanne Cohn, Christie Hartwell

“The human nature is and has always been to be tempted to cross whatever borders there are.” Jo Strømgren, director

This stunning duet weaves theater and dance, humor and sensuality, to tell a story that unfolds from a classic relationship drama into the surreal dynamics of irrational human behavior. Border conflicts exist everywhere: between nations, lovers, enemies, dreams and reality, the past and the future. It is only natural to want to cross them, even when it’s against one’s better judgment.


Drug cartels, 80s music, lights, camera, action.


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ALIAS ELLIS MACKENZIE has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

ALIAS ELLIS MACKENZIELucidity Suitcase Intercontinental (USA) + CINEtica (Colombia)World Premiere! Sept 11 at 8pm*

Sept 12 at 2pm + 8pmSept 13 at 3pm

Sept 15–17 at 7pmSept 18 at 8pm

Sept 19 at 2pm + 8pm

105 minutesPrince Theater

1412 Chestnut StreetWheelchair accessible

*$20 preview$29 (general) $20.30 (member)

$15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com

215.413.1318

Festival Star Producers David and Linda Glickstein

Festival Co-Producers Herbert and Sissie Lipton, Nicholas

Plagge, Holly and David Stitchka, Edward and Anne Wagner

“It comes from my personal experiences about real actors trying to play real people and their aliases on a fake TV show somewhat based on reality.” Thaddeus Phillips, director

“A brilliant, hilarious theater installation/conspiracy theory/telenovela/true-life drama.” Toby Zinman of The Philadelphia Inquirer on prequel Barry Seal

Return to the 1980s with the Colombian drug lord, the American drug runner, the CIA agents, and the fixers via the actors who play them on a modern day TV show. A theatrical adventure that exists between myth and history, reality and make-believe, get set for a mind-bending meld of stage design, action, and storytelling. With cast members from the Netflix series Narcos and MundoFox’s Alias El Mexicano.


Space, time, light.


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This presentation of Available Light has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. The revival of Available Light was developed at MASS MoCa (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art). Available Light was originally commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1983 as the inaugural event for the museum’s Temporary Contemporary interim exhibition space.

Available LightMusic by John Adams Choreography by Lucinda Childs Stage Design by Frank Gehry

Sept 10–12* at 8pm

55 minutesThe Drexel University Armory

32nd + Cuthbert Streets(between Lancaster Avenue +

Arch Street)Wheelchair accessible

*Pre-show panel discussion on Sept 12 at 6pm with

Julie Lazar, Lucinda Childs, and Suzanne Carbonneau.

$39 / Members pay $27.30$39 (general) $27.30 (member) $15

(student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com

215.413.1318

Festival Co-Producers Gail Harrity Michael C. Lillys

“A compelling interplay between dance, music, and setting—gorgeous to behold and thrilling to hear.” Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times

Experience this monumental work at a scale not seen since its premiere thirty years ago. Lucinda Childs, one of the modern era’s most celebrated choreographers, revives her seminal 1983 collaboration with composer John Adams and architect Frank Gehry. The full effect is that of a complete work of art, beyond a singular viewpoint, a deeply realized artistic encounter that creates a world of its own.


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Experience soul in all of its manifestations.


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Sept 18 + 19 at 8pm

60 minutesChrist Church

Neighborhood House20 North American Street(by 2nd + Market Streets)




Festival Co-Producers Robert Dever Arthur M. Kaplan

and R. Duane Perry

“Gestural, impulsive, and highly theatrical.” Andrew Boynton, The New Yorker

“For Soul Project I worked more as a coach until the dancers became really hot spontaneous performers.” David Zambrano, choreographer

An international cast of virtuosic dancers performs a series of mesmerizing solos to classic soul songs—from Aretha Franklin to James Brown. David Zambrano is a highly esteemed experimental choreographer known for bringing wildly unique, high intensity movement out of his dancers’ bodies. In Soul Project, audiences move freely throughout the performance space, close enough to feel every tremble and sigh of the dancers’ bodies.


Soul Project David Zambrano (Venezuela/Netherlands)Co-presented by Swarthmore College

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Meet Pieter and Gui. Pieter. Gui.


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Sept 9–11 at 7pm

45 minutesPainted Bride Art Center

230 Vine StreetWheelchair accessible



Festival Star Producers David and Linda Glickstein

“It’s intimate and lovely and physically idiosyncratic.” Willamette Week

Two dancers, Pieter and Gui, play out scenes of male friendship, machismo, and the naked male body in this mischievous dance. Are they friends, partners, lovers, rivals, or enemies? Manly displays of muscle, the intensity of boyish friendship, the capacity to turn limitations into virtuosity—all are combined into a daring, hilarious performance in which ruggedness, anger, and love are entwined in one great physical and all-encompassing embrace.


Still Standing You Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido | CAMPO (Belgium/Portugal)

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Ordinary speech, in symphony.


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2015 Fringe FestivalSeptember 3 to 19 Supported by the Cultural Services of the

French Embassy in the United States and the FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) Foundation.

Sept 15 + 16 at 7pm






Festival Co-Producers Bert and Lynne Straub

“In a way, Suite n°2 is a sound portrait of our world—such as it reaches us through words, voices, and languages.” Joris Lacoste, director

The wealth and strangeness of the most ordinary forms of speech come alive. This virtuoso choral suite of many languages (with English supertitles) takes audiences on a procession of words that dance, words that decide, threaten, condemn, that join ranks, words that crumble and rise from the dust, naked words, words dressed in Versace.


Suite n˚2Encyclopédie de la Parole | Joris Lacoste (France)

Break down your perception of reality.


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Sept 17 at 6pm, 6:30pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm, 8:30pm, 9pm,

9:30pm, 10pm +10:30pmSept 18 at 5pm, 5:30pm, 6pm,

6:30pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm, 8:30pm, 9pm + 9:30pm

Only 15 slots per show. Tickets must be purchased in

advance. Arrive 20 minutes before your performance time to

be set up with audio.

60 minutesMerriam Theater

230 South Broad StreetWheelchair accessible



“I think of theaters as very transparently psychological spaces—buildings which spring into existence as a direct result of how our minds work.” Ant Hampton

“Blur[s] the distinction between presence and absence, inside and outside, reality and imagination, art and the real world.” Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times

Put on some headphones. Enter a theater. Have your perception of reality break down. Just one of 30 audience members, you are instructed through your headphones to move throughout different zones of the enormous Merriam Theater, which is dormant, empty, and unlit save for your flashlight. You notice that your instructions differ from everyone else’s. You’re cast—along with everyone else—as some kind of extra. But an extra for what?

NOTE: This performance requires audiences to walk around in poorly lit areas and obey basic physical instructions. For information about wheelchair accessibility, please call the Box Office at 215.413.1318.


The Extra PeopleAnt Hampton (UK)

Play the game.


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Sept 2 + 3 at 7pm*Sept 4 + 5 at 8pm

Sept 6 at 4pmSept 9–12 at 7pm




*$20 preview$29 (general) $20.30 (member)

$15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com

215.413.1318

Festival Executive Producers Tom and Carol Beam

Festival Producer Gene Dilks Festival Co-Producers

Andrew Stone and Gene Bishop, Nancy Lanham Cat, Annie, and Steven Bohnenberger

“What can we do but laugh?” Jenn Kidwell, co-creator and performer

“Kidwell and Sheppard’s stellar performances make the crowd, or the class, laugh, cringe, and often do both at the same time.” NOLA Defender

A delirious, funny, and taboo-smashing work about race relations in America. Watch cultural reenactment gone awry, a romantic comedy with hipster racists, and a time traveling romance between teachers who harbor a racially exoticized attraction. Underground Railroad Game parodies the unsettling ways in which history is constructed.


Underground Railroad Game Jenn Kidwell and Scott Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special

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