The second annual St. Lou Fringe has come and gone and although there were over two dozen performances varying from theatre and dance to workshops, music and street performances, I was only able to see two shows. :( Naturally I gravitated toward the theatre offerings, but that's the great thing about Fringe, there's a wide variety of performance types and times to choose from. Here's a look at This Is A Play, and Montana: The Shakespearean Scarface.
THIS IS A PLAY • R-S Theatrics
So, you've got a female actor, a male actor and an older female actor in an awful play about lettuce and small town family secrets. Sounds pretty bad right? But when the play is less about an actual play and more about the steady stream of each actors' inner thoughts, This Is A Play is anything but bad. Through their inner monologues they berate the writer and the director for lines they don't get and directions they don't understand. They also analyze their own performances, the performances of the other actors, and sometimes hang each other out to dry.
