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Capital Fringe Festival 2012 This year’s festival offers another grab bag of DIY theater — from clowns to cabarets to steampunk ballets.
Playwright Ron Litman's Fringe show, "DC Trash," is a musical and satirical look at the District through the eyes of a garbage-truck driver.
Marvin Joseph
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Playwright Brian Feldman is going to friend you at the Fringe. His show, "BFF," offers one-on-one "friend building" experiences, billed as "perhaps the most conceptual offering in Capital Fringe history."
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Hiromi Yano plays the title character in "A Day in the Life of Miss Hiccup."
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Hiromi Yano
Elaine Qualter and Joshua Drew in dog and pony dc's production of "Beertown," about a small town’s annual time capsule ritual.
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The Faction of Fools show, "3rd Annual 'Fool for All': Tales of Marriage and Mozzarella," features more than 40 actors performing traditional Italian commedia dell'arte.
Faction of Fools Theatre Company
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Capital Fringe Festival
"Airswimming (Abridged)," by Alison Bauer and Julia Smith, is about two women who form a friendship in a London asylum.
Alison Bauer & Julia Smith
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Capital Fringe Festival
Greenbelt Arts Center presents a new take on "Alice in Wonderland. "
Greenbelt Arts Center
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Capital Fringe Festival
Bob Bartlett's show, "Bareback Ink," is a contemporary retelling of the Ganymede myth, but featuring a young man and his asexual tattoo artist.
Bob Bartlett
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Capital Fringe Festival
In Richmond Productions' "Beef Encounter," a rambler is confronted by a herd of cows.
Richmond Productions
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Capital Fringe Festival
Onalea Gilbertson's show, "Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame," shares generations of history, beginning with the Great Depression.
Onalea Gilbertson
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Capital Fringe Festival
Cecily Marlborough and Gwendolyn Hamm, "time-traveling Victorian social anthropologists," return to Fringe with "Cecily and Gwendolyn's Fantastical Capital Anthropological, Inquisitorial Probe."
Cecily and Gwendolyn's Fantastical
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Capital Fringe Festival
Ombelico Mask Ensemble, another commedia dell'arte troupe, will perform "Dead Man's Mambo."
Ombelico Mask Ensemble
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Capital Fringe Festival
Clown Cabaret describes its show, "Delusions of Grandeur," as "Shakespeare, death, pies and laughter."
Clown Cabaret
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Capital Fringe Festival
"Dr. Science's Science Time Science-va-ganza!" by Adam Ruben and Chuck Na, is a parody of scientific demonstrations.
Adam Ruben and Chuck Na
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Capital Fringe Festival
Dylan Fresco presents "Domino's Pizza Saved My Life," a collection of personal stories about young love and summer camp.
Dylan Fresco
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Capital Fringe Festival
"Donna Has a Boyfriend: A Collection of Works," is a trio of performances by darlingdance company.
darlingdance company
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Capital Fringe Festival
"The Extermination Machine," by SeeNoSun OnStage, tackles the story of Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
SeeNoSun OnStage
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Capital Fringe Festival
Moveius Dance gives ballet a futuristic Victorian twist in "Flight of Fancy (A Steampunk Ballet)."
MOVEius Dance
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Capital Fringe Festival
"President Harding Is A Rock Star," produced by the Landless Theatre Company for the 2008 Fringe, returns to the stage this year.
The Landless Theatre Company
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Capital Fringe Festival
"Raising Cane: A Family Portrait," presented by Grain of Sand Theatre, is the story of a violent backwoods family.
Grain of Sand Theatre
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Capital Fringe Festival
"SINGLEMARRIEDGIRL" navigates the difficulty of jumping into the dating pool after a decade of marriage.
Tasty Monster Productions
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Capital Fringe Festival
"Superhero Celebrity Rehab: The Musical" goes behind the closed doors of a facility for troubled heroes. The show is produced by William Segal and Brendan Snow.
William Segal & Brendan Snow
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Capital Fringe Festival
Paden Fallis takes the audience courtside in a big game in "The Play About The Coach."
Paden Fallis
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Capital Fringe Festival
"The Underdeveloped and Overexposed Life and Death of Deena Domino" introduces audiences to a former child reality star.
Skinny B---- Jesus Meeting
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Capital Fringe Festival
In "Thomas is Titanic," actor Thomas Choinacky plays all of the parts in the famed James Cameron film.
Thomas Choinacky
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Capital Fringe Festival
"Wild Night: A Choose Your Own Burlesque Adventure" invites the audience to determine the course of a burlesque escapade.
Photographer: Dale Ghent
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Capital Fringe Festival
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