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<\/a>July \u2014 time for the second annual San Diego International Fringe Festival (sdfringe.org) an 11-day (July 3 \u2013 13) cornucopia of creativity \u2014 400 performances presented by 80 companies and more than 200 artists in 400 performances in five-plus venues in and around Downtown.<\/p>\n
Ticket revenues go directly to the performing artists. Admission is only $10 a pop, plus a one-time only charge of $5 for a mandatory Fringe Tag that allows access (along with your ticket) to performances and to Fringe Central, a rooftop-gathering place at Tenth Avenue Arts Center, 930 10th Ave.<\/p>\n
Fringe itself has existed and proliferated worldwide since 1947, when a group of artists excluded from a festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, banded together and created their own festival \u201con the fringe\u201d of the big one. Fringe affords an inexpensive, uncensored platform upon which artists may strut their stuff and brave audiences may see what would not be seen elsewhere.<\/p>\n
The Fringe Festival offers possibilities ranging from puppetry and mime to theater, avant-garde opera, dance, and newly minted plays and musicals. Here are a few eye-catching opportunities created by individuals and companies known locally. Others feature yet-to-be discovered artists from as far away as England, Finland, France and Italy.<\/p>\n
Actor Eddie Yaroch presents the West Coast premiere of his play titled \u201cNightbird,\u201d which was written in 1988 and produced as part of a student showcase at the University of Minnesota. \u201cI designed the set, featuring three 8-foot wings,\u201d says Yaroch. \u201cIt received full production in New York City when I rented a space off Broadway.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beloved for numerous, wide-ranging roles at New Village Arts, most recently \u201cThe Miss Firecracker Contest,\u201d Yaroch directs \u201cNightbird,\u201d which stars Kristin Woodburn Wright, Max Macke and Elliot Vimel Sephus and explores his lifelong concern, why battered women stay with their abusers. Part of the proceeds benefit San Diego Domestic Violence Council. Performances of \u201cNightbird\u201d will be at Spreckels Theatre, Fringe Off Broadway, 923 First Ave., Downtown.<\/p>\n
Prolific and peripatetic, San Diego actor\/playwright Tim West presents two plays in two venues, one, under the auspices of Scripps Ranch Theatre\u2019s Out on a Limb Festival is \u201cRay\u2019s Last Case\u201d at Tenth Avenue Arts Center, and the other is \u201cOlivia Bolivia\u201d by the Trouble Dolls Collective at the Spreckels Theatre. West describes \u201cOlivia,\u201d which he is producing himself, as \u201ca light satire with a slightly paranoid bent.\u201d The play features the youngest festival performer, Maxine Sutton, 10, Betty Matthews and Danny Campbell. \u201cRay\u2019s Last Case\u201d features San Diego actors Charlie Riendeau and Jill Drexler, for whom their roles were written, and concerns the final days of detective novelist Raymond Chandler, who resided in La Jolla.<\/p>\n
Dancer Erica Buechner, a resident of North Park who teaches at Malashock Dance, presents \u201cThe Red Shoes Revamped and Other Works,\u201d a kinetic look at society\u2019s view of women.<\/p>\n Bodhi Tree Concerts presents the San Diego premiere of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht\u2019s 1930s set satire, \u201cSeven Deadly Sins,\u201d a then-avant-garde one-act chamber opera that in Berlin cabaret style explores the lengths to which Anna 1 and Anna 2 go to provide for family in straitened circumstances. The biting critique of capitalism stars Laura Bueno, Kylie Young and Walter DuMelle, with musical direction by Mark Danisovszky. One hundred percent of ticket proceeds July 13 go to San Diego Opera.<\/p>\n Well known author\/composer Rayme Sciaroni collaborates with Margee Forman to present a new musical, \u201cThe Gym: Love Lost and Found\u201d presented by San Diego\u2019s Breaking Waves Festival, new plays conceived, created and performed by San Diego actors, playwrights and directors.<\/p>\n Among the eye-catching productions sprung from San Diego and from elsewhere:<\/p>\n \u2022 British actor David Bottomley stars in \u201cThe Peacock and the Nightingale\u201d set in 1953. Eccentric English poet, (now Dame) Edith Sitwell is in Hollywood working with director George Cukor on a film script about the Tudors. Marilyn Monroe is desperate to play Anne Boleyn. Will they let her?<\/p>\n \u2022 Well-known San Diego actor Jason Maddy is \u201cadvising director\u201d of \u201cFirsts,\u201d a new work still in incubation. Written, composed and directed by two high school students, Annika Patton and Emily Laliotis, it is the story of two sisters, fascinated by the same cello-playing boy, and told through fable and song. One performance only, in the fifth floor Arts Incubator at Spreckels Theatre, July 9 at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n \u2022 Actor Brian Rickel, recently seen in Diversionary\u2019s \u201cThrill Me,\u201d who calls it \u201ca parade of life, love, loss and the beauty of it all,\u201d portrays 14 inhabitants of Judevine in his adaptation of David Budbill\u2019s play, \u201cJudevine.\u201d<\/p>\n Other artists, with impressive, two-minute presentations at a Fringe preview (36 acts!) Monday night:<\/p>\n \u2022 Los Angeles storyteller Michael Kass in \u201cCeremony\u201d playing at Tenth Avenue Cabaret Theatre.<\/p>\n \u2022 Seventy-something lyricist and songwriter Ray Jessel at the keyboard with \u201cLife Sucks and Then You Die\u201d \u2014 sexual content, very funny. Wonder what they\u2019ll think at San Diego Central Library.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u201cGenie and Audrey\u2019s Dream Show\u201d and Beau and Aero in \u201cA Little Bit Off\u201d are two commedia-informed \u201ctheatrical circus\u201d acts that make serious physical fun with red noses! Both play at Tenth Avenue Arts Center, \u201cDream Show\u201d in the cabaret space, and Beau and Aero on the Mainstage.<\/p>\n \u2022 Into dance? Don\u2019t miss \u201cNu Bee\u201d presented by Chard Gonzalez Dance Theatre at the Tenth Avenue Arts Center. Tickets can be found at sdfringe.ticketleap.com\/nubee.<\/a><\/p>\n Stop by Fringe Central to pick up a T-shirt, get your Fringe Tag and a program, with content ratings, genres and a Fringe map.<\/p>\n Or, for an almost comprehensive list of shows and artists go to sdfringe.org<\/a>. There you will find day-by-day schedules, artists and show listings to help you decide what will work for you, although the website is a little challenging to navigate. Purchase tickets. Otherwise, just surprise yourself and fly by the seat of your pants, but bear in mind that some attractions will sell out by word of mouth alone.<\/p>\n The best way to find any artist or those recommended above is to visit sdfringe.com\/2014\/artists.php and scroll through the list. A click on any of them will get the times and locations of their performances. To learn more about the venues, visit sdfringe.org\/2014\/venues.php<\/a>. For direct links to the performances highlighted here, visit the online version of this article at gay-sd.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2014Charlene Baldridge moved to San Diego from the Chicago area in 1962. She\u2019s been writing about the arts since 1979, and has had her features, critiques, surveys and interviews included in various publications ever since. Her book \u201cSan Diego, Jewel of the California Coast\u201d (Northland Publishing) is currently available in bookstores. 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