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#FringeFemmes Check-Ins: I Am Not A Spy. This Is A Magic Show

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by Thea Pueschel

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: Katrina Kroetch

WHAT: I Am Not A Spy. This Is A Magic Show

WHERE: Madnani Theatre, 6760 Lexington Ave

WHY: What happens when you go to a magic show, but it is actually a spy convention? The spy, no… the magician/writer Katrina Kroetch takes us on a comedic noir caper with magic, mentalism and a bit of spy craft. What better cover to infiltrate secret organizations than magic? As an audience member you might be the sleeper agent, but you are definitely a world-famous spy. This is a clever, funny, impossible-not-to-enjoy show. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: have fun, solve a mystery and laugh.

HOW: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/13348

#FringeFemmes Check-Ins: Mr. Ow

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by Constance Jaquay Strickland

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:  Tozy

WHAT: Mr. Ow

WHERE: The Cats Crawl, 660 N Heliotrope Dr.

WHY: Wild! I loved this show and found Tozy to be a magnificent worm. This show truly pulls at your heartstrings in the sneakiest of ways. I thought I would enter the show, hide and view it from the stands – you know, a spectator of sorts. NO! Mr. Ow was not having it. He did not allow us to sit together in a shared space while still in individual isolation.

One by one, moment by moment – in the most poetic, profound of ways – Tozy brought us out of our shells and closer together. Midway through the show a young man walked onstage to become Tozy’s assistant and that whimsical action changed the course of the show. It became a beautiful thread that tied the entire show together… or perchance it revealed exactly who we can become as a society when we allow ourselves to connect. At first we may seem to be strangers, until we realize that we truly are interconnected and more similar than different.

Don’t miss this show.

HOW: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/13261