Tag Archives: Jennifer Ashe

#FringeFemmes Check-Ins: Strange Beings

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by Jennifer Ashe

Quick peeks at #HFF26’s “Women on the Fringe” by Fringe Femmes who are behind the scenes this year. Click Here for all Check-Ins

WHO: Nicole Knudsen

WHAT: Strange Beings

WHERE:  The Broadwater (Black Box), 6322 Santa Monica Blvd

WHY: Nicole Knudsen does a masterful job as writer/director as she asks us to explore what it means to be human. Two space travelers facing impending disaster finally find their voices to declare responsibility in their painful relationship from years earlier. Little do they know their shared pain could save or destroy mankind.

The direction creates urgency, intimacy and in true Fringe fashion, PVC pipe and mimed control panels work to make the audience believe these two are trapped in space with only minutes to live. Victoria Gluchoski and Joshua Verges are wonderful as they take us through the nuances of love, pain, fear that comes with giving yourself to another person. Trying to find understanding, forgiveness or simply closure for a life that might have been. How many ways can we hurt one another? Love one another? See for yourself.

HOW: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/13389

#FringeFemmes Check-Ins: Napolean’s Wh*re Sister

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by Jennifer Ashe

Quick peeks at #HFF25’s “Women on the Fringe” by Fringe Femmes who are behind the scenes this year. Click Here for all Check-Ins

Fringe Femmes

WHO: Shannon Corbeil

WHAT: Napolean’s Wh*re Sister

WHERE: The Broadwater (Second Stage), 6320 Santa Monica Bl

WHY: Shannon Corbeil has written an all-female romp taking us back to the very beginning of Napoleon’s rule, a time in which his sister, Pauline, is not behaving. Set at a party where the audience doubles as the guests, this broad and raunchy comedy uses improv, audience participation and just straight up silliness to shout out the inequity of the sexes and how society demands perfection from women… and punishes them if they dare to revel in their own sexuality.

The cast – Shannon Corbeil, Deborah Lee Smith, Sarah J. Eagen and Shelley Regner – is clearly having a blast. You will learn a bit of history and celebrate a woman who says, “I am who I am and I don’t give a damn!”

HOW: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/11772

#FringeFemmes Check-Ins: A Minor Inconvenience

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by Jennifer Ashe

Quick peeks at #HFF25’s “Women on the Fringe” by Fringe Femmes who are behind the scenes this year. Click Here for all Check-Ins

Fringe Femmes

WHO: Faye Widjaja and Cerulean Long

WHAT: A Minor Inconvenience

WHERE: Actors Company (Other Space Theater) 916 N. Formosa

WHY: This ambitious project brings a young production team together to sing and share the struggles to find oneself on the brink of adulthood. They explore the fear of the future, the heartbreak of loss and the hope for the life ahead. This is a sung-through musical with some lovely voices and harmonies.

HOW: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/9750

#FringeFemmes Check-Ins: This is Water

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by Jennifer Ashe

Quick peeks at #HFF25’s “Women on the Fringe” by Fringe Femmes who are behind the scenes this year. Click Here for all Check-Ins

Fringe Femmes

WHO: Rain Perry

WHAT: This is Water

WHERE: The Broadwater (Second Stage), 6320 Santa Monica Bl

WHY: Rain Perry wrote and performs this self-reflective journey with both story and song. Struggling with her white privilege, she dives into her own family history and she asks us to recognize the oppression and racism non-white people have endured through the ages. In this political climate, I was intrigued to see how she saw herself and how she believes we can make a difference.

Karen Hammock on the keyboard and Jeff Turmes on percussion and guitar bring the music to life, rounding out the cast.

HOW: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/11376