2010 FRIGID Festival: Now Comes the 'Hangover'

2010 FRIGID Festival: Now Comes the 'Hangover'

March 9, 2010


Missed out on this year's FRIGID New York Festival?  You still have a chance to catch a selection of shows with FRIGID Hangover.

FRIGID New York is the fastest growing celebration of fringe theater in New York.  Now in its fourth year, the wintertime festival featured 30 edgy productions. This year the shows were performed from February 24th to March 7th, 2010 in three East Village venues: The Kraine Theater, The Red Room, and UNDER St. Marks.

All shows run less than sixty minutes. One hundred percent of the box office goes to the participating company. Shows are selected either as first-come, first-serve or by lottery.

Top shows from the festival were chosen to participate in 'FRIGID Hangover,' which offers theater mavens one last chance to catch these performers.  'Hangover' runs from March 9-13, 2010.  Shows include: "Kill the Band," "The Bike Trip," "Four Quarters," "Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag," "No Traveler," " Vodka Shoes," "Legs and All," " Medea," " Bonne Nuit Poo Poo," and "IT OR HER."

Back Stage interviewed several of the artists who participated in this year's festival, three of whom are participating in Hangover.  Read the interviews below.

For more info on FRIGID, visit www.frigidnewyork.info

'Bonne Nuit' Offers Apocalyptic 'Poo Poo'
The Brooklyn-based company modestly describes their new show, "Bonne Nuit Poo Poo," as "comedy, science fiction, dance, apocalyptic jukebox, cabaret, motorcycles, video art and pageantry tied up into one uniquely entertaining spectacle." Think "Mad Max" in a fringe festival.

Leslie Says, Put on Your 'Vodka Shoes'!
In her new show "Vodka Shoes," Leslie Goshko tells stories from her childhood: "Rather than abuse her, Leslie's alcoholic father would buy her shoes, drag race the lawnmower, and burn the neighbor's bills, while her mother managed a doomed Christian bookstore and prayed in tongues over Leslie's ailing sister." Less Ozzie and Harriet than Ozzie and Sharon.

'Medea' and the Unexpected
How do you make a play as well-known as "Medea" fresh again?  By reinventing theater as we know it. Simple. After success at last year's production of Antonin Artaud's "Jet of Blood," No.11 Productions have decided this year to take on Euripides' classic of love and bloody revenge.

'2-Man No-Show' Looooves Your Ottoman
Isaac Kessler and Ken Hall are not your normal pair of comic actors. The duo—who describe themselves as a "Frankenstein of comedic arts"—are fresh off their one-two punch of acclaimed shows at the 2009 Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival and San Francisco's 2010 Sketch Comedy Festival.


2010 FRIGID Festival: Now Comes the 'Hangover'

March 9, 2010


Missed out on this year's FRIGID New York Festival?  You still have a chance to catch a selection of shows with FRIGID Hangover.

FRIGID New York is the fastest growing celebration of fringe theater in New York.  Now in its fourth year, the wintertime festival featured 30 edgy productions. This year the shows were performed from February 24th to March 7th, 2010 in three East Village venues: The Kraine Theater, The Red Room, and UNDER St. Marks.

All shows run less than sixty minutes. One hundred percent of the box office goes to the participating company. Shows are selected either as first-come, first-serve or by lottery.

Top shows from the festival were chosen to participate in 'FRIGID Hangover,' which offers theater mavens one last chance to catch these performers.  'Hangover' runs from March 9-13, 2010.  Shows include: "Kill the Band," "The Bike Trip," "Four Quarters," "Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag," "No Traveler," "Vodka Shoes," "Legs and All," "Medea," "Bonne Nuit Poo Poo," and "IT OR HER."

Back Stage interviewed several of the artists who participated in this year's festival, three of whom are participating in Hangover.  Read the interviews below.

For more info on FRIGID, visit www.frigidnewyork.info

'Bonne Nuit' Offers Apocalyptic 'Poo Poo'
The Brooklyn-based company modestly describes their new show, "Bonne Nuit Poo Poo," as "comedy, science fiction, dance, apocalyptic jukebox, cabaret, motorcycles, video art and pageantry tied up into one uniquely entertaining spectacle." Think "Mad Max" in a fringe festival.

Leslie Says, Put on Your 'Vodka Shoes'!
In her new show "Vodka Shoes," Leslie Goshko tells stories from her childhood: "Rather than abuse her, Leslie's alcoholic father would buy her shoes, drag race the lawnmower, and burn the neighbor's bills, while her mother managed a doomed Christian bookstore and prayed in tongues over Leslie's ailing sister." Less Ozzie and Harriet than Ozzie and Sharon.

'Medea' and the Unexpected
How do you make a play as well-known as "Medea" fresh again?  By reinventing theater as we know it. Simple. After success at last year's production of Antonin Artaud's "Jet of Blood," No.11 Productions have decided this year to take on Euripides' classic of love and bloody revenge.

'2-Man No-Show' Looooves Your Ottoman
Isaac Kessler and Ken Hall are not your normal pair of comic actors. The duo—who describe themselves as a "Frankenstein of comedic arts"—are fresh off their one-two punch of acclaimed shows at the 2009 Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival and San Francisco's 2010 Sketch Comedy Festival.
 
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