Fringe Festival 2007, Part 3

Long day with four plays. But I did experience the joy of the traditional green onion cake.

Dishpig

Good play. Basically Office Space for the kitchen staff. The actor does an okay job of pretending to be the various people at the restaurant. The only thing I could ask for would be a more defined ending. It just petered out. (7 out of 10)

Picasso At The Lapin Agile

I enjoyed it. It is by Steve Martin, but it wasn’t wild and crazy guy. It was a more intellectual piece than just flat out slapstick. I went in expecting that a theatre school was involved because it had so many actors, but I stand corrected; professional actors who know what they are doing. (7 out of 10)

Indulgences

This play is what would happen if a Shakespearean play (complete with iambic pentameter) had the devil wandering through trying to help things along. This could have been a better play, but it went on too long. The first 45 minutes dragged and it was hard to pay attention. However, things started wrapping up nicely in the last half hour, greatly improving the quality. (6 out of 10)

Badaboom!

Puppet burlesque; At times explicit puppet burlesque. There is audience participation in this, and strangely, the front row seems to be the safest spot to sit if you are introverted. A guy in the back middle got harassed the most. (5 out of 10)