Our second visit to this year’s edition of the Minnesota Fringe Festival yielded these two shows:
- Juliet & Juliet: Improvised Shakespeare is a delightfully goofy improv show. The two leads take contributed themes and ideas and try, more or less successfully, to weave them into a mini-play set in Shakespeare’s time and language. Nothing serious here, but certainly fun.
- The Untold Myth of Medusa, The Musical; Part 1 retells the story of Medusa before she was saddled with that mess of snakes, coming up with the abuse of a brave woman. Painfully preachy in parts, badly sung in others, it appeared to me to be more of a graphic lesson of the dramatic disasters that occur when attempting to integrate the logic of humanity with the logic of the gods; or, a lesson in never interacting with the oversexed, under-challenged gods.
As uneven as a Fringe experience should be.
