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To all who performed at our very first Fringe!
You made History on Nov 10 11 12 2011.

Big Thank you to our Sponsors
 Yelp Hawaii, Hawaii Indedendent, Freelance Clothing, Aloha Graphics, Tim Bostock Productions.

Fringe Venues
Thank you so much for hosting the Fringe, we could not have had one without your performance space.
ARTSmith -  Ong King Arts Center   
The ARTS at Marks Garage -  theVenue 

Fringe Team
Totally awesome. 

Volunteers
 It has been said that volunteers are the backbone of many events; we totally agree - You Rock!

Audience
You are super fantastic. Thank you for attending. Stay locked to OahuFringe - we will be back.

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Fringe Media
NonStop Honolulu
Honolulu Weekly
TGIF PEEPS
Ka Leo The Voice
The808Scenezine
Hawaii Independent
StarAdvertiser Honolulu Pulse
Hawaii Star

Hawaii Blog

  Leading up to our first Fringe we held two events of which you can read about at Fringe Bites. 


THE 2011 LINE UP

Brazil, Bellydance & Beyond

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 A musical and movement journey where culture meets creativity!  Featuring artists and cool collaborations featuring various performers from the annual Puja concert: Willow Chang, Jasmine Revolution Dance, Guilherme Alves- Derose Method Yoga, Samba Hawaii (formerly axe), beat boxer Jason Tom and a few other surprises!

Hokulani and Tutu's Garden

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In tough times, access to sufficient and nutritious food for healthy life can be challenging. Hokulani learns the importance of kalo in Hawaiian culture. She also discovers the joy of growing food to help her family to have fresh food.  Come and find out what grows in Tutu's garden.

It's About Time

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Time is fleeting, and how we spend it is the most important decision we make. Seven spirited high school actors and musicians from Kaua'i perform three short comedies by David Ives: "Captive Audience," " Arabian Nights," and "Variations on the Death of Trotsky." Spend your time  supporting high school theatre!

Lovely in her Space Suit

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Inspired by dreams, Kennon's LOVELY IN HER SPACESUIT is a collection of fantastical romances. Eric Kennon and Ocean Wales couple and uncouple in seven comedies across space, time, and species. A contempory cocktail of exotica, erotica, voodoo and  firefly farming makes a soulful, tender look at lost and found love.

My Life As Featured Ensemble

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A Bohemian Soprano Takes Us On A Musical Journey Through Her
Dysfunctional Relationship With Theatre, a Haiku:
Silly, bitter girl
Chose a life in theatre
Share a Martini?

My Mobster

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Awkwardly brave and oddly joyful, My Mobster is the true story of the romance that blossoms between a sheltered young woman and a foreign criminal. Add an hyper-religious mother and Joy's love-hate relationship with her virginity, and you get a story that leaves you laughing long after the tears are gone.

Ridente

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A physical theater show for all ages addressing the simple and important things people need in life; Food, Shelter, and Love. The performance approaches these subjects through Clown, Circus, and Sufi poetry.  Ridente debut at "Serata di Beneficenza per Le Donne Che Hanno Subito Violenza" in Arezzo Italy and toured throughout Umbria and Tuscany Italy.

The Set Up

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Can you keep, but not tell, time?...is too much not enough? Where is the &@! bass player?  In 'Gig Limbo' two musicians ponder such complexities while tonal interventions open new dimensions in The Set Up.  

Warning:  May contain banjo.

"Musicians live complicated lives" -  The New Yorker

What's in a Name?

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Convergence Dance Theatre is known for their physically dynamic movement and satirical humor in their contemporary choreography. The newest collaborative project : What's In a Name  offers thought provoking choreography  with salty sweet humor as the artists  return to the childhood chant; stick and stones may break my bones but words cannot hurt.

American Mixed Tape

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Life is a mixed-tape. What's on yours? American Mixed Tape explores the Asian American story through the use of pop-music. The show follows the author and his conflicted relationship with his country, his ethnicity, and himself with through the aid of the nostalgic medium: the venerable mixed-tape.

Cemetery Golf

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Jim Loucks' live-wire solo performance takes you back to the Deep South with preachers shoutin' from the mountaintops, mamas pickin' switches, and Hellfire just a heartbeat away.  Nationally-touring show with witty storytelling, quirky characters and down-home Gospel music.  Directed by Carol Rusoff.

Identities in Motion

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Identities in Motion is an evening of dramatic dance and theatre work, spanning the emotional range from intense to humorous, exploring the question: What values and life influences do we consciously or unconsciously embody or reject? Five performers present the imagined parameters of our cultural, working and living environments.

Laughtrack Theatre Company

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Laughtrack Theater Company (LTC), Hawaii's only theater devoted exclusively to the art, proliferation and instruction of improvisational theater, presents the best of Laughtrack at the first ever Oahu Fringe Festival. Laughtrack has classes and performances on-going, visit www.LAUGHTRACKTHEATER.com for more details.

Michael Wall's Rhythms of Change

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An inspiring, fun-filled adventure in percussion, song, and storytelling, celebrating Spirit and Spiritedness! Live performances are captured and looped,  creating rich instrumental and vocal layers. Audience members are "in the band" - clapping, singing, dancing, and offering dreams and visions. Heartfelt, hilarious, sacred and profane...it's a rollercoaster of revelry!

Ode to Vaudeville

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Kitsch, glam and exotica with a generous helping of sass, Cherry Blossom Cabaret offers you their latest project - Ode to Vaudeville featuring the ladies of CBC and sideshow wonder extraordinaire, Professor Pandemonium. Expect to be surprised, dazzled and thoroughly entertained by sideshow acts, burlesque, song, dance and many surprises.

Rule The World Tour

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Oil in the Alley were arena rock superstars twenty years ago and now they're back! That's the premise in reality R. Kevin Garcia Doyle and Sean T.C. O'Malley, veteran Honolulu improvisers backed by Eric Folk on drums and Bri Smith on bass, improvise all the lyrics of Oil's 'classic hits.'

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2,000 Leagues Under the Sea

The Waikiki acrobatic troupe will be performing fun and dynamic stunts involving both group work and pairs, They are an all ages, athletic troupe that will be gracefully performing people pyramids and hand balancing acts. Pamela Poles will be artistically performing circus style acrobatic pole dancing.


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