{"id":40701,"date":"2024-08-04T21:30:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T02:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40701"},"modified":"2024-08-04T21:30:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T02:30:49","slug":"minnesota-fringe-festival-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/08\/04\/minnesota-fringe-festival-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Fringe Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our second visit to this year&#8217;s edition of the <strong><em>Minnesota Fringe Festival<\/em><\/strong> yielded these two shows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/minnesotafringe.org\/shows\/2024\/juliet-juliet-improvised-shakespeare#tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Juliet &amp; Juliet:<\/em> Improvised Shakespeare<\/strong><\/a> 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&#8217;s time and language. Nothing serious here, but certainly fun.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/minnesotafringe.org\/shows\/2024\/the-untold-myth-of-medusa-the-musical-part-1#tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Untold Myth of Medusa, The Musical; Part 1<\/a><\/em><\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As uneven as a <em><strong>Fringe<\/strong><\/em> experience should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our second visit to this year&#8217;s edition of the Minnesota Fringe Festival yielded these two shows: Juliet &amp; 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&#8217;s \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/08\/04\/minnesota-fringe-festival-4\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40702,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40701\/revisions\/40702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}