Fringe Encore Series 2017

'Fruit Flies Like a Banana' is a high-octane variety hour where each piece is inspired by a different locale, and you choose the itinerary! Each night the audience selects the show order by picking cards from a deck, and even determines parameters for some pieces created on the spot.

The 4242 Intergalympics are finally here, and it’s up to the crew of the S.S. Albacore to prove that Earth isn’t the shabby dirt turd the Martians think it is. Ready, set, space! 'Turbulence' won Best Musical and Best World Premiere in the 2017 Hollywood International Fringe Festival.

At the age of 36, Franz Kafka was still living at home, a petty bureaucrat, a failed artist, a timid Jewish son. Ruling and ruining his life was his overbearing father, Hermann. What to do? Kafka wrote a 50-page letter to his dad in which he reveals deep connections between his life and his fiction.

In a whitewashed room with a white fridge, white sink, white porcelain toilet, and white everything else, Hey-Zeus frantically scrubs the white tiled floor with his toothbrush as his doting Quote Mamma watches. She tells us, "To live in clean is to live in perpetual orgasms." Their lives are a cycle of repetitions and restated experiences echoing impotent frustration and mindless obliviousness.

Welcome to an evening of exquisite acts and sensual titillation. A singer croons songs by powerful women in music such as Nina Simone, Etta James, Amy Winehouse, Beyoncé, and Christina Aguilera as Fafi and her cohorts celebrate female empowerment through movement.

'Edgar Allan' follows 11-year-old Poe in his first year at Manor House School, as he seeks to gain academic ascendancy over the student body. All goes according to plan until another boy named Edgar Allan arrives in class, which complicates his schemes of dominance. 'Edgar Allan' is a darkly comedic and musical riff on the obsessions, mania, and insanity that haunted the life and work of America's first professional writer.

Born in St. Louis in 1906, Josephine Baker achieved only moderate success in the United States, but became an international superstar after moving to France in the early 20s. Her adopted country gave her the opportunity to live freely without the racial oppression of her home nation, though she never stopped yearning for acceptance in America. Written for and performed by Tymisha Harris, 'Josephine: A Burlesque Cabaret Dream Play' won "Best Show" and "Outstanding Solo Performance" at the 2016 San Diego Fringe Festival and "Production of the Year" at last fall's Fringe Encore Series at the Soho Playhouse.

During this 85-minute show, the characters—ranging from a 19-year-old rock prodigy to an 87-year-old blues man—share their respective musical journeys through songs and stories.

From wide-eyed youthful idealism to the challenges of marriage and parenthood, this cheeky solo comedy pokes fun at everything from blue balls to birth and divorce. Original songs include 'Monogamy,' 'F*ck First,' 'I Want to Spank My Kids This Xmas,' and 'I’m Breaking Up With Jesus.'

Shakespeare's murderous couple cordially invite you to witness a hyper-speed rendition of their gruesome story, told entirely without words. Kings will die, nature itself will be twisted, and funny silent-film gestures will be made.

The Kinsey Sicks were founded in an effort to find joy during the darkest days of the AIDS crisis. Now that the era of Trumpism is upon us, they’re sharing their funny, inspiring, and at times heartbreaking tale, and showing that hatred and deceit can be fought with humor and heart.

With their large company suddenly on the brink of collapse, four panicking businesspeople make a desperate overnight attempt to save it–and their futures. Emergency proposals, email hacking, an animal sacrifice, a radical theory about the Ottoman Empire–will any of it work?

Each culture seems to have one thing in common: a well-known tale in which a girl does something horrible, or is the victim of something horrible, which ruins everything and everyone around her. From Eve and Pandora to Lilith and La Llorona, 'Blamed' brings these women to life.

A nine-to-fiver named Dennis stumbles into the trip of a lifetime when he consumes 2CR-100, a mysterious new research chemical. Magic and adventure quickly ensue with sexy creatures of the wood, angry old bug ladies, the nation's favorite TV game show 'Crimebang,' and the big man Satan himself.

Based on the book ‘Shell Shock: The Diary of Tommy Atkins,’ it was adapted for stage by Tim Marriott. It mixes emotionally charged scenes with lighthearted observations of everyday life–a dreaded trip to Ikea, a seemingly mundane post office queue, and more.

A beach in Brazil, 1979. An elderly man takes his routine morning swim. Out at sea he has a seizure and is washed ashore where he encounters a local woman, who he assumes has saved him. Flattered and entranced by this enigmatic presence, he is seduced into revealing himself. As he seeks to justify his life, he ultimately only succeeds in damning himself.

Best known for her role as aloof supermodel Liberty Baker in the ITV drama 'Footballers’ Wives,' Oruche, now in her 40s, has started to question who she really is. Spending more than two decades of her life taking on other people’s identities—first as a New York fashion model and later as an award-winning TV actress—has taken its toll.

Jimeoin's ever-evolving stand-up has earned him appearances on TV shows including 'Live at the Apollo,' 'The Royal Variety Performance,' and 'Sunday Night at the London Palladium.'