Atlanta Fringe Festival
Schedule:
Look at Me! Look at Me! Look at Me!!!
Performance Art - General Audience - 45 Minutes
A blend of magic and burlesque that can only be described as Magic-esque.
Thursday night
8:30AM to 9:30PM
Location: Dynamic El Dorado - 572 Edgewood Ave SE #116, Atlanta, Georgia, 30312
Dybbrooke
Theatre - Mature Audience - 60 Minutes
Leah, a newly-licensed mortician, considers herself a champion of the dead. Brooke, recently deceased, is the first corpse of Leah's career. But for Brooke, death is not the end of her anxiety, fear, and loneliness. And for Leah, the body in the mortuary is not the end of her time with Brooke. A play about love, loneliness, and Kabbalah, Dybbrooke tells the story of a possession driven by the need to feel loved.
Thursday evening
7:00PM to 8:00PM
Location: Limelight Theater - Main, 349 Decatur St. SE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30312
This Silly Little Game
Dance - General Audience - 50 Minutes
“This Silly Little Game.” is an insightful and invigorating evening-length work that explores the intricacies of struggling with self-doubt and the societal pressures of being a woman. Directed by Lauren Overstreet, the all-female-dancer cast uses virtuosic and expressive movement to explore the question, “Who are we when we end up alone?”
Thursday evening
7:00PM to 8:00PM
Location: 7 Stages - Mainstage, 1105 Euclid Ave NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30307
Wallpaper
Theatre - Mature Audience - 50 Minutes
A postmodern drama that troubles the feminist novella The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) by counterposing the white eugenic beliefs of the novella’s author Charlotte Perkins Gilman with the anti-racist fiction and scholarship of Charles Chesnutt, author of The Marrow of Tradition (1901). Directed by Melissa Simmons. Starring Femmaeve MacQueen and London Jaffa.
Thursday evening
7:00PM to 8:00PM
Location: 7 Stages - Mainstage, 1105 Euclid Ave NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30307
Mr. Cardboard
Clown/Comedy - General Audience - 55 Minutes
Mr. Cardboard is an enchanting, introspective, and twisted clown play. It is the debut hour from Miles Calderon and Levi Meltzer, two performers, theatermakers, and recent graduates from the world renowned French clown school: École Philippe Gaulier. The show is a playful deconstruction of the childhood/coming-of-age fantasy genre that bends between a simple narrative about Huxley meeting his magical imaginary friend, Mr. Cardboard, and a sincere comedy about growing up and friendship, all the while being stupidly funny.
On his 5th Birthday, rotten little boy Huxley (Levi Meltzer) is whisked away to the magical Land of Cardboard by the sprung-to-life Mr. Cardboard (Miles Calderon). However, aging and Huxley’s edge endanger his adventure and the innocence of the Land of Cardboard.
Thursday evening
7:00PM to 8:00PM
Location: Limelight Theatre - Black box, 349 Decatur St. SE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30312
All We Are Left With Is Hope: A Meditation on Life and Death Through the Facts and Fraud of a Victorian Spiritualist
The Winding Sheet Outfit
Minneapolis, MN
Theatre - General Audience - 50 Minutes
Is it theater? A seance? It's both! A short look at the long life of spiritual mediumship, or how to extend your life through the delight of stagecraft and the suspension of disbelief.
Thursday evening
7:00PM to 8:00PM
Location: Dynamic El Dorado, 572 Edgewood Ave SE #116, Atlanta, Georgia, 30312
Well, I Ate
Renee Marchol
Atlanta, GA
Storytelling - General Audience - 35 Minutes
An Atlanta woman tells five food memoir stories
Strawberry milk, carrot soup, bacon sandwich, Wonder Bread matzo ball soup and gas station linzer bars
An outcast classmate Aubrey pours strawberry milk into her Thermos cap to share with Renee. A grandma runs out of senior pantry food and eats a bread end so her grandchild can eat a soft middle slice. A friend watches Saturday morning cartoons with Renee, tells her she will hide her Jewishness to become a cheerleader, and makes dumplings out of Wonder Bread. Renee is breadwinner as her first husband goes to school and she brings a gas station recipe for linzer tart to a Los Angeles party.
"Well, I ate," was what Renee's mom said to her when she asked for food when she was a child. Renee had to get a special note from the pediatrician to attend school because she was so malnourished. But these food stories show that Renee belly laughs last. These memoir food stories will nourish an audience.
Thursday evening
7:00PM to 8:00PM
Location: The Marianna at Wrecking Bar Brewpub - 292 Moreland Ave NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30307
Botticelli Babes
Johnson City, TN
Storytelling - Mature Audience - 60 Minutes
You know their names, you think you know their stories, but the Botticelli Babes are here to set the record straight! Botticelli Babes is an interactive comedy storytelling experience that delves into the lives of some of history's most infamous women. This time, they'll be digging up the stories of the Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory, one of history's most (allegedly) reviled and prolific serial killers, as well as Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt.
Thursday evening
7:00PM to 8:00PM
Location: The Marianna at Wrecking Bar Brewpub - 292 Moreland Ave NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30307
Flock the Vote
Mother Flockers
Portland, OR
Dance - Mature Audience - 45 Minutes
A psychotic band of disfigured demigods wakeup after a doozy of an interplanetary bender to find themselves on planet earth in the year 2024. They delight themselves in the stupidity of society like David Attenborough on crack watching humans from up above.
Thursday night
8:30PM to 9:30PM
Location: Limelight Theater - Main - 349 Decatur St. SE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30312
Flay's Anatomy
Atlanta, GA
Theatre - Mature Audience - 60 Minutes
The pilot episode of Flay’s Anatomy, a surrealist sea voyage show, set in a reimagining of 19th century Europe! It is a stranger, more leisured time than our own, when everyone still spoke in verse, and travel remained a luxury for the few. Book your tickets now! You’ll meet the cast and crew of the good ship Incontinence, and join them on a cruise whose pleasures cannot be denied, to the moon and back again! Or almost that far, what for the cows that have since jumped over it, marking this excursion, by way of needle and syringe, one of the most startling new marvels to be witnessed in modern times.
Thursday night
8:30PM to 9:30PM
Location: 7 Stages - Backstage, 1105 Euclid Ave NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30307
ITS ALIVE! A Monster Burlesque Comedy
Speakeasy Sirens
Orlando, FL
Burlesque - Mature Audience - 60 Minutes
Jonathan Harker has been summoned back to Transylvania by Count Dracula himself. His memory was mysteriously wiped after his last visit by the Count and his Brides and now he needs to find answers. Upon arriving, Harker accidentally releases the ancient curse of Akashas Box that causes all monsters residing in the castle to cast aside their senses and lose themselves in burlesque! Harkers only way to retrieve his memories and escape is to face the monsters, collect their cursed totems and return them to the box once and for all!
Thursday night
8:30PM to 9:30PM
Location: 7 Stages - Mainstage, 1105 Euclid Ave NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30307
Heart Ripped Out Twice And So Can You!
Linnea Bond
Philadelphia, PA
Comedy - General Audience - 60 Minutes
Ever recover from open chest surgery and multiple hospitalizations only to get hit with a devastating breakup? Part clown comedy, part timeshare pitch, part pity party, part existential howl – HROTASCY! is like 127 Hours meets 500 Days of Summer performed by a sales representative in bardo. Winner of Cincy Fringe Critic's Pick of the Fringe and Artist Pick for Encore Performance. A (mostly) comedy about pain.
Thursday night
8:30PM to 9:30PM
Location: Limelight Theatre - Black box - 349 Decatur St. SE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30312
The Evolution of Consciousness
Rya
Clearwater, FL
Performance Art - General Audience - 45 Minutes
Not unlike the hero’s journey, the show moves through the stages of awakening, shifting between both the perspective of the universe at large and that of the individual. Incorporating live singing, movement, ornate visuals, and original music made primarily by looped voices, the Evolution of Consciousness explores the idea that true enlightenment is not found in the duality of light and dark but rather in the recognition and acceptance of our own capacity for both.
Thursday night
8:30PM to 9:30PM
Location: Metropolitan Studios - 1259 Metropolitan Ave SE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30316
Get Psyched
Au Guys
Atlanta, GA
Improv - General Audience - 45 Minutes
Get Psyched features a rotating cast of fortune tellers, telling eager truth seekers their fortunes (based on prompts and suggestions from the audience). The fortunes play out as a series of scenes, manipulated by the fortune teller.
Thursday night
8:30PM to 9:30PM
Location: The Marianna at Wrecking Bar Brewpub - 292 Moreland Ave NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30307
The Elements of Euclid
SobSax
Atlanta, GA
Theatre - General Audience - 50 Minutes
Three artists living on Euclid Ave. in Atlanta intersect with each other over time and all along the line.
Their relationships and creative struggles unfold in parallel to the books of the classical work of geometry.
Is there a logic to art and love or is it just something about the neighborhood?
Euclid himself narrates this love triangle of Little Five Points.
Thursday night
10:00PM to 11:00PM
Location: 7 Stages - Mainstage - 1105 Euclid Ave NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30307
Let Me Say This About That
Imaginary Podcast Network
Minneapolis, MN
Comedy/Improv - Mature Audience - 55 Minutes
Podcast hosts Heather and Danna create improvised podcasts based on genre suggestions – they cover everything from true crime to conspiracy theories, or whatever else the audience throws at them. Producer Raffi keeps them on track … most of the time. And it wouldn’t be a podcast without “real” ads – something’s gotta pay the bills at the Imaginary Podcast Network! These Minneapolis-based performers won the “Spirit of the Fringe” Award at the 2023 Tucson Fringe Festival.
Thursday night
10:00PM to 11:00PM
Location: Limelight Theatre - Black box, 349 Decatur St. SE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30312
Agnes and Agatha
Hunter Dance Project
Tallahassee, FL
Dance - General Audience - 45 Minutes
Come visit Agnes and Agatha, two dusty radio actresses, as they recount their glory days while spending quality time in the common room of their Florida retirement home. Experience a piece of dance theatre that lets you laugh, cry, and play along as audience participation is included. Kick up your feet and enjoy an old lady pocket candy as Agnes and Agatha shuffle down memory lane.
Thursday night
10:00PM to 11:00PM
Location: 7 Stages - Backstage - 1105 Euclid Ave NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30307
Officer Scott: Too Much Isn’t Enough
Sloan Brettholtz
New York, NY
Comedy - General Audience - 60 Minutes
Officer Scott can’t get any action with the NYPD. Probably because he’s not a real cop, he’s a volunteer. But when given the chance to deliver a D.A.R.E. seminar to scare a gymnasium full of 4th graders off drugs, his life turns upside down. Join Officer Scott on a journey for the meaning of life, love, and courage in this madcap clown show featuring burlesque, dance, psychedelics, queer joy, and more.
Thursday night
10:00PM to 11:00PM
Location: Limelight Theater - Main - 349 Decatur St. SE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30312
Time Machine Blueprints: The Show
Time Machine Blueprints
New York, NY
Comedy - General Audience - 60 Minutes
Shawn Wickens is a comedian futurist and casual stoner.
One night a weed brownie changed his life. The next morning he realized he had bought the domain name: TimeMachineBlueprints.com.
Things only got weirder from there. You will remember this very true comedy show… in the Future!
Official Selections:
- SoloCom NYC
- YippieFest (Chicago)
- Stoned Laughs
- Cannastock
- Charm City Fringe
- Word Bookstore (Jersey City)
Thursday night
10:00PM to 11:00PM
Location: Dynamic El Dorado - 572 Edgewood Ave SE #116, Atlanta, Georgia, 30312
Liquid Courage
Bobby Wesley
Orlando, FL
Storytelling - General Audience - 60 Minutes
Bobby Wesley is a storyteller, but he doesn’t always trust his brain.
Family legends feel like tall tales. Too many drinks lead to hazy recollections. And memory itself is a fickle thing, ain’t it?
A veteran performer at storytelling festivals and “the Moth” stage in New York, Bobby recollects a misspent youth of southern shenanigans, hipster cocktail nonsense, and a whirlwind reconstruction of the mind.
Liquid Courage spins these yarns into an interwoven storytelling show about family legacies and the gap between what we remember and who we are.
Thursday night
10:00PM to 11:00PM
Location: Metropolitan Studios - 1259 Metropolitan Ave SE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30316
Get Home Safe!
Michael Williams
Atlanta, GA
Improv - General Audience - 55 Minutes
Get Home Safe is the improvised variety show where 2 transplants from NYC in their PJ’s open a box of cereal and then create & perform a one act play based on your suggestion, live before your eyes with no safety nets or second chances for when things inevitably get weird! And like any good sleepover, some of our besties are gonna come over and guest star in the fun! No promises but Get Home Safe will make you feel things and teach you how to laugh again. It’s basically fancy-pants dinner theater!
Thursday night
10:00PM to 11:00PM
Location: The Marianna at Wrecking Bar Brewpub - 292 Moreland Ave NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30307
