Tipping the Bucket Video Preview: #2

Welcome!

Did you find this site from the 2008 Minnesota Fringe Festival?  Or Chris Kidder’s City Pages column?  If you did, welcome.

Tipping the Bucket premieres at the U of M Rarig Center Arena Stage at 8.30pm on July 31st, with subsequent shows at:

• Saturday August 2nd, 7pm (ASL Interpreted!)
• Friday August 8th, 5.30pm
• Saturday August 9th, 4pm
• Sunday August 10th, 2.30pm

On the sidebar you’ll find a category named Myth Me.  This was the old title of the show, and much of the show grew out of musings in that category.

Peruse.  Have fun.

And we’ll see you at the Fringe.

–Allegra J. Lingo

A new clock

I need one.  Time is rushing by.  It needs to slow down.

We said yes.

Video Preview of “Tipping the Bucket”

From the July 7th Fringe For All:

And…silence

In the wake of this whole St. Joan controversy, Katherine Kersten wrote a column on it for the Star Tribune.  KK is the Strib’s equivalent to, well, I’m not sure.  A woman who is strong in her conservative and religious convictions (neither of which I have a problem with, and many times I do agree agree with her positions), but often uses faulty logic or the omission of fact to make her arguments (which I don’t agree with).  Some of my friends were, for awhile, a bit obsessed with picking apart her thoughts and hypocrisies (of which there are many).  One awesome dude even made this tshirt.  I read her blog everyday.  I find it makes me strive to be a better writer and avoid fallacies in my arguments.  And then I read all the comments for the stupid things that make me laugh (and there are always many).

She timed it to come out on the Sunday of Pride.  Since I had just written a blog entry on my take on the topic, I wrote her an email with a link to it (full text of my email after the jump).

And I also offered her two comp tickets to the opening night of Tipping the Bucket.

I have heard nothing.

However, the next day’s entry on her column was entitled “more mini-golf and fishing for the disabled, but no monkeys“.  A subtle shoutout to our favorite traveling simian, perhaps?

I didn’t expect to hear anything.  I am all too familiar with the types that make their grandiose opinions heard and then refuse to sit down and rationally discuss the issue with someone on the other side.

So, help me out.  Let’s get Katherine Kersten to the Fringe.

And here’s her email: kkersten@startribune.com

Who’s gonna help me?

Da show. Is done.

I banged out some edits on the show and wrote the “epilogue” section of Tipping the Bucket today.  It feels good.  I think I dig it.

Last Wednesday Anthony came over to, like, rehearse.  He asked what my process usually is once I get the script done.

“Well, I usually do a few showcases and see how some of the sections feel when I speak them.  Then I go to my tech rehearsal and tell the technician “just make me look nice up here”.  And then I run the show once and Zoe tells me not to speak so fast.  And then the show opens.”

He just kinda shook his head.

And then we spent nearly an hour on three minutes’ worth of material.  And…I liked it.  And realized that there’s a long way to go in terms of staging and stuff.

But it’s cool.  Nearly feels like a real show.

Welcome!

note to readers: All new blog entries between July 1st 2008 and August 10th 2008 will appear under this post.

Did you find this site from the 2008 Minnesota Fringe Festival?  If you did, welcome.

Tipping the Bucket premieres at the U of M Rarig Center Arena Stage at 8.30pm on July 31st, with subsequent shows at:

• Saturday August 2nd, 7pm (ASL Interpreted!)
• Friday August 8th, 5.30pm
• Saturday August 9th, 4pm
• Sunday August 10th, 2.30pm

On the sidebar you’ll find a category named Myth Me.  This was the old title of the show, and much of the show grew out of musings in that category.

Peruse.  Have fun.

And we’ll see you at the Fringe.

–Allegra J. Lingo

Fringe Website Day!

It’s the day when the new Fringe website, with all of the shows and info for the 2008 Fringe goes up.  This is my favorite day of the year.  I woke up all giddy at 5am, and managed to wait until after six before I started poking Amy away singing “it’s Fringe Website Day!  It’s Fringe Website Day!”

She grunted and in her sleep (I think) said “monkey.  annoying. love you dork” and rolled over.

So I’m up eating rice cakes and cherry coke on the couch, watching Wimbledon, and checking the website.

It isn’t up quite yet.  But that’s what the refresh button is for.