Take
a Seat on the Fringe Side
1997 marked the 50th
anniversary of the first fringe theater festival held in Edinburgh,
Scotland. Today the annual Edinburgh Fringe has grown to include over 1000
events, and fringe has emerged as a major theater movement. festivals are
held in no fewer than 19 major cities throughout the United States and Canada
and numerous others in Europe and Australia
As a proponent of
contemporary theater achieving national attention for its programming, Theater
LaB Houston was ideally suited to take the lead by initiating and introducing
the fringe festival as part of our repertoire. In 1997 we produced the
first Houston Fringe Theater Festival. It has become an established
annual theater event for the City of Houston. Fringe Festivals are
expected to be showcases of theater that is daring, exciting and
adventurous. their programs offer an array of theatrical works -- the
Houston Fringe Theater Festival meets this challenge.
As of 2003, the Fringe Festival is not a
part of our regular programming.
THE
FESTIVALS
1st
Houston Fringe Theater
Festival
May 1997
Liza Vann
The Top of the Bottom Half
An Evening With the Keeper of All
Knowledge
Joe CHVALA & The
Flying Foot Forum
(presented at & by DiverseWorks)
Niobe Ngozi, Joni Lee
Jones & Rise Collins
Righteous Women Raging
Righteous Women Rising
Steve Patterson
Beauty
Eve Ensler
The Vagina Monologues
2nd Houston Fringe
Theater
Festival
June 1998
Tim
Miller
Shirts & Skins
Mark Dendy Dance
What Becomes a Legend Most?
(presented
at & by DiverseWorks)
Jill
Morley
True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl
Ntozake
Shange Ellington
is Not a Street
& Kahil El-Zabar
3rd
Houston Fringe Theater
Festival
June 1999
Deborah
Boily
Out on a Limb
Sing Sweet Gospel
celebrating the history of gospel music
at St Pauls A.M.E. Church
Tim
Miller
My Queer Body
Body Ratio 1:8
Women's Works Project on Breast Cancer
Jackie
Clune
Chicks with Flicks (American Premiere)
4th
Houston Fringe Theater
Festival
June 2000
Diane
Tobola
Spice! Sizzle! and Sheen!
Women's
Works Food Sex & Longing
The 3 things women think and
talk about the most
5th
Houston Fringe Theater
Festival
June 2001
Tim
Miller
Glory Box
This project is funded in
part by a Grant from the City of Houston and the Texas Commission on the
Arts through the Cultural Arts Council of Houston / Harris County.
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