Better Said Than Done is taking July off – partly because it’s too hot to think and partly because there are so many amazing shows already going on as part of the Capital Fringe Festival. Many of the shows are starring some of the overly talented storytellers you’ve seen at Better Said Than Done. I don’t want to play favorites, but I’m gonna anyway.
Here are our top picks for the Capital Fringe Festival.
Apocalypse Picnic
starring Derek Hills and Jason Pittman
Amid the devastation of the apocalypse, survivors are having a little trouble letting go… Day spa, anyone? Group therapy? As self-obsessed as ever, their new world’s an inventive and hilarious culture of denial… and mutant cockroaches. Watch our heroes struggle to hang on to the civilization they once knew and ponder, in their own ways, the eternal question: Can humanity survive? With cameos by Jesus and Superman.
Dr. Science’s Science Time Science-va-ganza
starring Adam Ruben and Chuck Na
In this hilarious parody of science demonstrations, the charismatic Dr. Science takes the audience on a science–tastic journey filled with dry ice, potato clocks and a baking–soda–and–vinegar volcano…until something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Horribly.
McGoddess
starring Vijai Nathan
“Can I eat a Big Mac, and still be a Hindu?” wondered Vijai since she was five. Caught between her Marxist father, born–again Christian sister and superstitious Hindu mom, Vijai hilariously struggles to find the meaning of faith in America.
Mitzi’s Abortion
starring Amy Couchoud and Kevin Boggs
Mitzi’s Abortion continues the Washington Rogues streak of bringing powerful, politically attuned and risky new plays to local audiences. Mitzi’s Abortion is the fourth production from The Washington Rogues, producers of previous Fringe hits Eight, Busted Jesus Comix and The Teacher’s Lounge, or One Child Left Behind.
Pushing Boundaries
starring Ellouise Schoettler
Like Mad Men? Ever wonder how women went from that kind of world to our modern American life? Ellouise Schoettler was there to see it, and help make it happen. An ERA Memoir, a 2010 Capital Fringe TOP PICK returns to the 2012 Capital Fringe Stage at the Goethe Institut.