CALENDAR OF EVENTS

UNFINISHED WORK (Russell Kaback)
Show Description: A family oral history about a gutsy, clever teenage boy who enlists to go to a wartime labor camp. He promises his mother he will return, but his Nazi overseers have only one plan for him – work and annihilation.

ELSINORE BARNVILLE FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE (Finyette Productions)
Show Description: Broadway legend Elsinore Barnville battles with demanding producers as he creates a one-person show about his life. A comedic tale of cherished memories, the fear of being forgotten, and the love of theater.

DISAPPOINTMENT (Kellie Ryan)
Show Description: The home, the altar, the place where family systems develop and disappoint. Perhaps, if we consolidate our feelings and findings of this life into miniature worlds, playing with dolls, and praying to our ancestors, we remember a truth about our altar, our home.

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BLOOMERS LEFAYE WALKS INTO THE FUTURE (Jared Mongeau)
Show Description: Bloomers LeFaye Walks Into the Future is a continued exploration of the elusive and misunderstood Red-Nose Clown. Actor Jared Mongeau returns to the genre in live performance after creating the virtual This is Just Intermission, presented by Mad Horse Theatre Co., in 2021. Bloomers LeFaye is a character six years in the making, initially seen in In the Trenches, Jared’s MFA thesis, which appeared on the main stage at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, the largest theatre festival in North America.

PLAYFIGHT (Dani Robbins)
Show Description: PLAYFIGHT explores the dazzling world of professional wrestling through two imperfect, aspiring wrestlers in a deconstructed “heel vs. babyface” match. As the match rumbles forward, the duo assumes multiple increasingly unreliable personas, decomposing into a chaotic pool of movement and text..

LOVING YOUR FAMILY HURTS: A SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCE FOR PORTFRINGE (Maya Williams)
Show Description: This is a spoken word show exploring the aspects of grief; what causes it, where it comes from, and how to navigate it within given and chosen families. Please stick around for fellow PortFringe performers Jared Mongeau and Dani Robbins!

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BALDERDASH ACADEMY’S APHRODITE PRIME AND THE INVADERS FROM VENUS 12 (Balderdash Academy)
Show Description: It is the distant year of 1999. When the earth is threatened with invasion the United States of Space call upon an unlikely hero to save the day in this 1930s-style comedy adventure from Balderdash Academy’s On the Air.

WINDOWS 95 RELAUNCH (Kerry Anderson)
Show Description: Start me up, again. You’re invited to a Windows 95 Relaunch party with different tech energy this time around.

IT’S COMPLICATED: THE MUSICAL (LinCo Media)
Show Description: A married couple works through a challenging therapy session in this funny and poignant short musical theater piece, brought to you by the songwriting team at LinCo Media.

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A MAN CLAMS UP (Orthogonal Arts)
Show Description: What is a man to a clam? On a wintry Maine morning a man and a talking shellfish dig into the weighty questions of gender and the things we wish for most as the consequences of one bad night bear down on them both.

OCCUPANT OF HOTEL ROOM 429 (Eric Darrow Worthley)
Show Description: As day breaks in a hotel room, a dangerous criminal is apprehended and society is made safe once more.

TITLE GOES HERE (MTWTFSS Theatre Co)
Show Description: This is a short description of our show as we wish it to appear in all PortFringe marketing materials. *fart noise*

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VILLAINY!…OR SOMETHING. (Chimera Theatre Collective)
Show Description: VILLAINY! (…or something?) is afoot. Though honestly we don’t know if we really thought this whole thing through… so just… give us 20 minutes of your time… or else your will shall be mine! Erm… ours? Anyway… we shall see. *dramatic cape flip* And then maybe we’ll all learn something. So there!

JURASSIC JO’S DINO SHOW! (Jurassic Jo’s Dinos)
Show Description: Join Jurassic Jo and her Cretaceous Crew in this interactive, family-friendly musical, where we bring baby Dinosaurs back to life and do our best to take care of them!

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SEX LIVES OF THE RECENTLY WIDOWED (Elizabeth Freeman)
Show Description: Can we all just laugh about it? A humorous take on widowhood and the journey back to (sex)life after death.

AS OF YET, UNTITLED (Inventing Trees)
Show Description: What would convince you that something is real? What are you afraid of?

THE BRIDE (Tandem Theatre Collective)
Show Description: 
The scars of the heart are
All spirals
Nothing so clean or quick
As the words that pierce it in the first place
We sew as fast as we can
But we sew in circles.
Fueled by rage, inspired by gothic image, folk horror, the wine dark sea, and the charms we learned in childhood, Tandem blends movement, folksong, and original text to tell the familiar story of a woman betrayed. And what happens when the “meek” inherit the earth.

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YOU’VE ALWAYS LOVED THE SUN (On a Dare Productions)
Show Description: A man was casually watching his gentle neighbors one day. They were in their front yard. He heard them speak only one sentence. This man then told me what he heard and saw. He was surprised. So was I. And I wondered if I could tell their story in only one sentence.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE? BY NIKOLAI CHERNYSHEVSKY (The Tibbus Group: Elliot and Michela!)
Show Description: A word-for-word stage adaptation of the Prologue and Preface sections of Chernyshevsky’s What Is To Be Done?, a science fictional utopian socialist political-tract-disguised-as-romance-novel written from a Russian prison in 1863. Credited as the forefather of populism, political nihilism and the Russian Revolution itself, Chernyshevsky’s literary and dramatic merits are, to our protestation, rarely contemplated. Performed by two clowns, puppet-lite.

THEY TOLD YOU ABORTION WAS UGLY: POETRY ABOUT REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE (Megan Tripaldi)
Show Description: Remember the whirlpool from The Odyssey? Yeah, I knew you forgot. But she didn’t. And she’s on her way.

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Show Description: The Reykjavík Fringe winner of The Maine Award comes to PortFringe 2022! “Hedy Lamarr, glamorous siren of the silver screen, was more than ‘The Most Beautiful Woman in the World’. She invented Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Technology that makes the world of wireless communication tick. From Austria to Hollywood, WWII, torpedoes, ecstasy, and intrigue to the very cell phone in your pocket, Hedy Lamarr is there!”

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