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1 Quandary Place
Abundance
ADVENTURES OF A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER
Barroom Philosophers
Border Crossings
Class Notes
Embarrassment & Death
The Falls of Vincent Millay
Found and Lost: Goals for 2002
Frisco Fred's Cabaret!
Fuck You Cancer
Great Hymn of Thanksgiving / Conversation
Storm
The Hasheesh Eater
Heavy Metal Playground
HER KIND: The Life & Poetry of Anne
Sexton
i hate my friends
Jesus Rant
Kiss My Booth
Korean Badass
Low Hanging Fruit
Monkey Poet Stand-Up!
Organic Boxed Chicken Stock
parts is parts:
Party of One
RM3
The Sewers
Shopping as a Spiritual Path
Spotless
Stetson Manifesto
A Strange Black Passion
Super Glossy!
TeleMongol
Terrible Voice
Tesla's White Pigeon
Turn of the Screw
You Go First
Play: Her Kind
Reviewer: Rick Burkhardt
5 Stars
One of the best I've seen at the Fringe. These outstanding performers are
utterly committed to their material: the intense, haunting, idiosyncratic
poetry of Anne Sexton. The hour unfolds like a poem, with odd twists and
turns spiraling back onto images and themes that grow and change with each
revisitation, sometimes lulling, sometimes shocking, always moving but rarely
in an expected way. It's both thrilling and heartening to see poetry take
center stage like this. (And I don't know what these other reviewers are
complaining about -- I loved the video.)
Play: Her Kind
Reviewer: Shaun Simms
3 Stars
I had to see this play for school. I was familiar going in with the poet
Anne Sexton. I thought overall this play was above average. There were a
couple of poems that were well done. But I am a film guy and the clips were
atrocious. They need to be dropped, the sound was not good and I felt the
clips were completely unnecessary and really dragged the presentation. I
would have given this play four stars, but the clips brought everything
down. If you're going to use multimedia, you better make sure it is very
well done and it has a purpose. There was a clip of the professor running
late for her class and then later getting all upset. Very cheesy. Makes
me wonder if Anne Sexton would have still had all this hoopla if she was
ugly.
Play: Her Kind: The Life And Poetry of Anne Sexton
Reviewer: Holly Up On Poppy
5 Stars
Hannah Wolfe just shines in this performance art piece depicting the life
of a poet we may not all know about. I certainly had no idea who she was
and now I can't wait to talk more about her with Hannah at a Fringe party.
Her stage companion, Laurel, totally kicks movement ass with graceful and
sexy dance pieces in between Wolfe's wide-eyed characterizations of Sexton,
her daughter, and our poetry teacher (one note-worthy hilarious and bumbling
treat). Supposedly, I saw the show on a night with a few technical difficulties,
so I'm going back for another round. Join me?
Play: HER KIND
Reviewer: George Crowe
4 Stars
Moving portrayal of poet, with humor.
Poetry well integrated into the text
Best moments with live action -- a few too many video interludes.
Superb dancing by alter ego.
Play: HER KIND
Reviewer: Nancy
3 Stars
Strong performances from both actresses. Good use of movement and good readings
of Sexton's poetry, which is wonderfully disturbing and haunting. The play
spirals around and around Sexton's nightmarish childhood and her mental
disturbances. It felt both like Too Much Information and not enough. Worth
seeing, it's food for thought.