Apocalypse Clown! I continued on to a decent-sized Fringe tour throughout North America and Canada. It was a blast! I saw so many shows in a condensed amount of time. Now I’m back with a highly personal story.
Throughout the week we will be posting reviews of Rogue shows! Check back daily! And then go out and enjoy the Rogue Festival! To check out our Rogue preview article & some Rogue performer preview articles go to our Arts & Entertainment section. So far we have reviews here of Super Rock n Roll Magic Show, A Folk Rock Celebration, The Awkward Art of Flying, State Your Name For the Record, Sinatra & Sax, The Agony of Living, The Excursions, The Road to High Street, Can Death be Staid by a Catchy Chorus, The Dark Fantastic, Bromance, Downtown Fresno Blues, Nightmare In Bakersfield, Flying Dreams: a Vaudevillian Tragicomedy, Rockin’ the Rogue, Part 2, Out of Bounds, Opera Frantique: Pescalla in Concert, Partial Nugity & The Honeymoon Period Is Officially Over.
They called it the Rogue Teaser Show at the Tower Theatre on Thursday night, and I didn’t think it was a tease as much as it was a treat! About 30 acts from the festival strutted their stuff on the stage, and there was everything from magic tricks to belly dancers to singers to comedy monologues. I’m going to tell you about some of the performers and groups that made me want to see them, and some old favorites of mine that are worth the time and the Rogue Bucks.
He swallows swords! He eats fire! He’s been on TV, in movies, and in The National Enquirer! He’s set Guinness World Records that nobody wants to break, he’s 7’3”, he’s a master of the sideshow arts, and he’s coming to Fresno for the Rogue Festival(this isn't technically a Rogue show, but it is taking place in the same area as Rogue at the same time)! FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY…GEORGE “THE GIANT” Mc ARTHUR…my little brother. No, I’m not taller, just older!
Here are our final three Rogue Performer Preview Articles-The Honeymoon Period is Officially Over with Gemma Wilcox, State Your Name For The Record with Amelia Ryan, & Jeremy Julian Greco’s With Held. Watch for Rogue show reviews & video interviews starting this weekend and go see Rogue!
Here are three more Rogue Performer Preview Articles-Can Death Be Staid by a Catchy Chorus, Hearing Love, Inspiration Found, & Witchdoctor.
Here are three more Rogue Performer Preview Articles-Kinetic Interludes by JuxtaPosition Dance Theatre, Never Own Anything You Have to Paint or Feed by Howard Petrick, & Steve Seabrook: Better Than You by Kurt Bodden.
Between now and Rogue Festival 2014 we will be featuring several of the performers who will be at this year's festival, so keep watching for more! Also, today we have a preview of the Festival itself, as we interview one of the Rogue producers this year, Amy Querin.
Last May at the Orlando Fringe Festival, I was telling Tommy Nugent about what we could do as a joint show. When Tommy heard the word “joint,” he was interested immediately. I proposed that we each do thirty minute solo pieces, and package them together as one show. While we were discussing this, our friend and fellow performer Tanya O’Debra spoke up and said, “No. That’s not what the people want to see. They want to see the two of you on stage together.”
Families! Every child grows up in a different one, even with the same parents at the same address. Take brothers and sisters, six of them scattered, one snowy Wisconsin December, and their father’s funeral, gather them in and dramedy will follow. In this household, sailing and the law combine with Hagar the Horrible, war, peace and The Energizer Bunny. Argument was Dad’s favorite sport and his oldest daughter was his designated sparring partner. And she’s been assigned to deliver a eulogy. “Something nice,” says her sister. But Kathleen doesn’t do nice.
