[fringe] and then there was none

[reverancepavane]

After seeing Sherlock Holmes and The Saline Solution for a second time with some friends, I almost saw Time Ninjas. I would have, but having seen Lawrence and Andrew's previous shows, I didn't think their performance justified the $20-$30 price tag. [I am informed by an insider that the big price rise (from the $10-$20 price range of previous years) was mainly due to Lawrence having his own TV show on Auntie (starting RSN). Anyway I rounded the Fringe out with Club Cascadeur, which had a mixed bag of cabaret acts. Highlights were Sammy J doing some songs from his new CD Sticky Fingers, Shelby (from Sound & Fury) doing a Texas whip master,* a Gypsy belly-dancer whose name escapes me but whose style was interesting (and which I couldn't actually place, so it may have been Romany in fact), and Svetlana doing a burlesque song (although I didn't get to see much of that as I had her breasts pressed in my face at the time**). So I survived another Fringe reasonably whole, though it was hard. I'll be spending the next few days recuperating I think. At least until the middle of January 2010, when I go on another orgy of ticket-buying. Hopefully there will be a bit more serious theatre that strikes my interest and less music gigs. Not that I am necessarily complaining, although it did mean that I also bought a lot of CDs this Fringe. * I was good. When Shelby said "There must be some intelligent types here. How does a bullwhip work?" I refrained from answering "the diminishing diameter of bullwhip concentrates the cross-sectional energy of the wave induced along the whip until it accelerates the tip of the whip beyond the speed of sound, creating a small sonic boom." ** <ahem>

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[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know. If I were in the audience, I'd be giggling like mad at an explanation like that.

They did ask for "intelligent types" to explain this, after all...