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It’s brilliant that the premiere San Diego Fringe Festival is presenting what amounts to a Philip-Dimitri Galas retrospective. An incandescently talented artist, Galas invented his own genre, “avante-vaudeville,” to describe his combination of physical theater and explosive, poetic language, and the term seems Fringe-perfect.
For his finale after four superb Old Globe Theatre summer seasons, Adrian Noble finesses the early Tom Stoppard gumdrop, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a mixture of Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett with plenty of Abbott and Costello thrown in. As always, Noble aces it. Gonna miss the guy.
How better to kick off San Diego’s first-ever Fringe Festival than with a play that’s zany and bawdy, features human and puppet grotesques, and has a century-old absurdist pedigree? “Ubu Roi” (King Ubu) by French author Alfred Jarry premiered officially in 1896 (unofficially, Jarry staged it as a puppet play in 1888 when he was 15) and became a modernist classic. Max Fischer Players offered its version of Jarry’s play at – in fact, all over – the Searsucker restaurant on 5th Avenue this afternoon, as the first performance in the Fringe Festival, which runs through this weekend. (The show…
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