The 麻豆传媒映画Fringe Festival runs until Sept. 20.
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Spookeasy
At Waterfront Theatre
Sept. 14, 16, 19, 20
Clay Mazing and Jasper Patterson don鈥檛 spook easily: half their props didn鈥檛 make it across the U.S. border (although a bunch of fake pistols and a pair of bullwhips did). Their tech guy was new to the show so the lighting cues were often random. But Mazing and Patterson more than rose to the opening night challenge and it鈥檚 possible the show was even funnier than it might have been. Funniest line? 鈥淲hat鈥檚 a guy without a gun?鈥� 鈥淎 Canadian?鈥� Some a-Mazing bullwhip work, damned fine singing by Patterson and fascinating Japanese puppetry.
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Chris & Travis
At Carousel Theatre
Sep. 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20
Improv: why do they do it? Adrenaline junkies, I guess. Every night will be different but every night will be on-the-edge-of-disaster craziness. Their first show opened with one of the best audience engagements ever. I won鈥檛 spoil the fun on the chance it happens every night; it鈥檚 super-funny. Chris Ross and Travis Bernhardt are quick, lively and very fast on the draw. Never an 鈥渦h鈥� moment.
The Exclusion Zone
At Waterfront Theatre
Sept. 12, 13, 17, 19 and 20
Brooklyn鈥檚 Martin Dockery is back with his frenetic body language, gesticulating spidery fingers and the voice that peels wallpaper: a storytellers鈥� storyteller. This time he鈥檚 inspired by Geoff Dyer鈥檚 book Zona that in turn is about Stalker, a Russian film. The book, apparently, is so much about nothing that it becomes 鈥渟omething.鈥� Somehow, Zona enticed Dockery to go to Chernobyl last October and into the 1,000 square mile Exclusion Zone where nothing ever happens anymore. It鈥檚 always an exhausting but exhilarating ride with Dockery; he鈥檚 a one-man nuclear meltdown.
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