Saturday, January 30, 2021

20 Reasons to Watch the Tucson Fringe Festival

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20 Reasons to Watch the

2021 Tucson Fringe Festival

1. A Day At The Beach (YouTube, Lodi, CA) The apocalypse can be a real beach. (adult themes)
2. A Different Way of Thinking (livestream, Louisville, KY) Magician/autistic self-advocate Cody Clark combines magic, comedy, and storytelling to share what living with autism is like (all ages)
3. After Party (YouTube, Chicago, IL) an original film tracking the drunken stupor of three individuals just following their best friend's wedding (13+)
4. An Arizona Bestiary (livestream, Minneapolis, MN) Reverend Matt's Monster Science: An Arizona Bestiary" is a complete comic (but factual!) history of the monsters of Arizona - from the prehistoric, to indigenous legend, to more modern creatures! (13+)
5. Climbing My Family Tree (livestream, Hollywood, CA) Les takes an Ancestry DNA Test and opens the door to a crazy family mystery (all ages)

6. Comedy Acts of Derring-Do (YouTube, Fairpoint, NY) Ill-advised comedy acts of derring-do and a look into the vacuous mind of a juggler! (all ages)
7. Dreams and Schemes (Livestream, Chicago, IL) Follow Audrey as she ventures into the past of her Floridian youth to get back her old childhood joy and figure out where she lost it.(adult themes)
8. Elizabeth Soflin: By Language Embelished, I (YouTUbe, Crosswell, MI) Percussionist Elizabeth Soflin explores the voice as a drum and everyday objects as musical instruments through the speech songs of composer Stuart Saunders Smith. (all ages)
9. Everything Is A Little Bit Alright (YouTube, Minneapolis, MN) A tender, heartwarming, funny, solo show about moving from grief to healing through the practice of yoga. (all ages)

10. Five Licentious Love Songs (YouTube, LaCrosse, WI) Two songstresses' musical exploration of assorted expressions of love through the songs of a repressed mathematician. (13+)

11. Glamourpuss (livestream, New York, NY) Join "Glamour Puss Talent" as they throw open the doors of their very exclusive agency to hold a one-time-only, open call audition for their next petinfluencer STAR! (13+)
12. I, Object (livestream, Alexandria, VA) When Mayor Margarine O'Leo wants to get a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle for her town's police force, she finds herself up against injured civilians, expert naysayers, and budgetary concerns determined to stop her. (adult)
13. Pawdemic In Puppy Park (YouTube, Tucson, AZ) The dog park is thrown into chaos by a Pawdemic, which makes the dogs stay home and forces the humans to host a crazy dog show. (all ages)
14. The Mighty (YouTube, Tucson, AZ) The first episode in a series of millennials coping with quarantine
15. The Pajama Party Monologues (LiveStream Tucson, AZ) A collection of stories depicting diverse experiences of Black women (adult themes)

16. Trainwreck (YouTube, Boston, MA) a devised puppet/object theatre piece which provokes and pokes fun at the archive of literary dead white guys and their objectification of women's bodies (18+)
17. Walking on Spectrum (YouTube, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 1-hour medley show of stand up comedy and storytelling about life on the autism spectrum (13+)
18. You're On Mute (YouTube, Portales, NM) Loneliness. Uncertainty. Hunger. Inequity Dissociation. Eastern New Mexico University students plunge into themes currently sweeping our nation to bring you stories from the pandemic (adult themes)
19. The Chess Player (YouTube, New Delhi, India) A look at India's caste system set against a love story and in intense chess match, based on a short story by the renowned Indian writer Munshi Premchand, published in 1924,
20 (and 21). It's all FREE and there's a global pandemic raging outside - what else are ya gonna do???