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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: a strange black passion
Reviewer: Victor
1 Star
I think the word "crap" is tossed around too lightly nowadays.
That being said, this earned that word.
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Reviewer: Anonananny
1 Star
This show brought me to tears. Not with a message or good acting, but the
lack there of. Only the second show of the Fringe I got the chance to see
this year and it almost made me want to leave the Fest all together. Thank
god for Barroom and Her Kind making me want to stick around.
Play: A Strange Black Passion
Reviewer: Insert "ANY NAME" Here
1 Star
If I could give this show lower than one star I would. I had a whole list
of things I would rather have been doing than seeing that show. Some involved
disgusting acts that even a Bangcok hooker wouldn't be proud of. This was
a horrible display of Art for Art's sake. The writer of the piece is a flat
emotionless actress who can not hold an accent to save her life. This show
is just a sad display of "hey folks look what I can do!" Unfortunately
it is an hour of my life dead and gone that I can never get back. Thankfully
this is a rare event for the SF Fringe Fest and usually they have amazing
shows. Just skip this one and find a better show to watch. FOUND AND LOST,
MONKEY POET STAND-UP!, PARTY OF ONE, BARROOM PHILOSOPHERS, ADVENTURES OF
A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER, FUCK YOU CANCER, HER KIND, etc. are all excellent
substitutes for this.
Play: strange black passion
Reviewer: tom
2 Stars
it was an ambitious effort with a large cast, costumes and light/shadow
effects, unfortunately for an audience that numbered fewer than the actors
in the show. the ten scenes were short and economical, the writer clearly
had an understanding of dramatic construction and a narrative arc emerges
clearly.
the english/german accents were awkwardly delivered and muddied the drama,
the costumes for mister laurence were ill fitting and badly designed, the
few seconds of shadow images were lovely, sensual, imaginative and with
all those actors appearing only occasionally i kept wanting them to be back
there doing shadows or something. in these depraved times of war and deception,
it seems academic and remote to watch a show where the characters are obsessed
with marriage and propriety, but i enjoyed the writers descriptions and
statements of love and struggle.
Play: a strange black passion
Reviewer: Mr.R
3 Stars
I liked it. It's a real play, with characters and a a plot. I didn't know
anything about Lawrence, or Frieda, and now I do. The acting was good, and
the womens costumes were nice too. I would have like to see more done with
the shadows, but the sex scenes were well done.
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Reviewer: Penny
1 Star
A Strange Beige Self Importance.
I have no prior opinion of Lawrence's work, but the synopsis caught my attention. I was left wishing it hadn't. I found the story disjointed and unfulfilling. I felt very hostile toward the main character and the attitude she takes toward where her life has gone. And found it difficult to follow her lines because she faded in and out of her German accent so often.
If I'd wanted to spend an hour watching a drama with characters I didn't care about and couldn't understand, I would have stayed in my room and watched a mexican soap opera.
Play: A Strange Black Passion
Reviewer: Anon.
1 Star
I was with a party of five and we all found it one of the longest hours
of our lives. The costumes were great, the acting quite good other than
some inconsistencies in the accents, but the script was pretentious and
plodding. It needs a serious rewrite
Play: A Strange Black Passion
Reviewer: Craig Kensek
4 Stars
This was a compelling production following the travels and development of
the love affair between DH Lawrence, a prolific writer in the early 20th
century & Frieda Weekley. What was most interesting about the play was
that much of the dialog was things that the protagonists had actually said
and/or written. Weekley is the more interesting of the characters in the
play. Her feelings on love, relationship, and independence were ahead of
their time. I couldn’t make up my mind whether Lawrence was played
woodenly because “that’s the way Brits were” or whether it
was the actor, himself, though.
Either way, at the end of the play, I felt like going online and reading more about the couple and their time. All in all, a good way to spend an hour.
Play: A Strange Black Passion
Reviewer: George Crowe
2 Stars
Fascinating story but a rather ponderous presentation with uneven performances.
Play: A Strange Black Passion
Reviewer: RRR's picks
3 Stars
3 Stars because it is about D.H. and that's what brought me to the theater
to begin with. Maybe it's because it's opening night at the Fringe but somehow
it took a while to take off. The narrations are a little too low in volume
so I missed some of the explanations at to what was happening. The sex scenes
could have been more animated. You should see the acting in Cuba if you
want to see some uninhibited acting when it comes to sex scenes. Since this
is intellectual writings the enunciation has to be crisper and louder for
the audience to understand and follow the script.
I was sitting on the upper level and it was hard to hear.
But if you have a liking for D.H. Lawrence then I recommend seeing this piece.
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Reviewer: Eric
1 Star
After the play, a stranger and I confessed "Lawrence is whirling in
his grave." From the first minute of the show I knew I was in for a
bore. No laughs, no cries, nothing really. I saw three fringe shows in one
night, and this was the only disappointment.