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Fringe Festival: Brian Sanders’ JUNK, ‘Suspended’
The very model of a Fringe show
Suspended is a show that epitomizes everything that a Fringe show should be: audacious, outside the mainstream, but oozing talent.
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Fringe Festival: 1812 Productions’ ‘Intimate Exchanges’
Exploring the consequences of choice
Intimate Exchanges is a comedy of ambitious conceptualization and modest execution that is reminiscent of these quiet but literate British sitcoms that frequently show up on PBS.
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Fringe Festival: New Paradise Laboratories’ ‘The Adults’
A masterwork of unease
New Paradise Laboratories’ Fringe show, The Adults, is a play for those who like their drunken pratfalls freighted with metaphysical anxiety.
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Fringe Festival: ‘99 Breakups’ and ‘Theorem’
Ensemble energy sparks FringeArts
Two Fringe performances in nontraditional venues showcase the power of talented ensembles.
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Fringe Festival: Pig Iron’s ‘99 Breakups’ (second review)
Choreographing an emotional minefield
People behave in particular ways in a museum; everything is hushed — but not when Pig Iron sets its performance inside one.
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Fringe Festival: Pig Iron’s ‘99 Breakups’
Painful Breakups
None of the moments in 99 Breakups was connected with any other, and all lacked subtext, subtlety, or any larger meaning.
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Fringe Festival: 'White Rabbit Red Rabbit' and 'Rhinoceros'
The power of the playwright’s voice
Given the horrific reports coming out of the Middle East today, the voices of Soleimanpour and Ionesco ring out loud and clear, warning us of the perils of nonconformity in the face of tyranny.
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Drexel study of Mantua and Powelton
“A Fragile Ecosystem”
Can the arts do for Mantua and Powelton what they've done in Fishtown and other Philadelphia neighborhoods?
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Drawing in public
The sketchbook is a social medium
Drawing in public compels people to take notice because it offers an intimate way of seeing, of interpreting and, perhaps at times, a potential entrance in exploring an infinite invisibility made visible through creativity.
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Jeremy Holmes's 'Convergence' at Drexel University
Illusory kinetic energy
“Convergence” engages the viewer with elements presented in unfamiliar ways: A solid, heavy material like wood seems pliable and floats in the air, and a simple gallery space is transformed into a hands-off playscape.
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