Archive for Minnesota

07.08.08

I can has collaboration?

Posted in Minnesota at 8:46 am by Ryan

Five fifths of Romeo & Juliet - a teaser for the Minnesota Fringe. Take a play, cut it into five pieces, give them to five Fringe companies, and see what they come up with… sounds awesome.

03.13.07

What is Fringe?

Posted in Articles, Ryan, Minnesota at 11:10 am by Ryan

A script writer with some shows in the Minnesota Fringe recently got asked some questions by a local student and is posting his responses on a website. There is no RSS Feed, no way for me to subscribe or add him to the Blogtracker, so I don’t consider it a blog, despite its overt “blogginess”. I can say the same for the official Minnesota Fringe site, as well as our own OrlandoFringe.org - they should at least link to a myspace blog feed or something. I know most of the audience won’t care about subscribing, but we can make them care if we work together.

Here is Matthew A Everett’s response to “Why would someone choose a Fringe performance as opposed to traditional theater?”

(it was, as you might imagine with me, a multi-part answer…)

The first reason why…

It’s faster

One of the many things that’s great about the Minnesota Fringe Festival is, you’re not investing an entire day or evening of your time on any one production.

Love it or hate it, nearly all the shows are over in under an hour.

So if you like it, it feels like time flew by, and if you don’t connect with it, well, it’ll be over soon and you can try something else.

Even the longest shows in the Fringe are only 75 minutes (an hour and fifteen) long, so it’s theater in a more compact package.

Easily digestible, leaving you room for more if you want.

You can read more by visiting this page of Matthew’s site - he says he will be posting a new answer every day - I think the list of questions at the top are the ones remaining to be answered.

My advice to Matthew and anyone else looking to do serious online promotions - get a Wordpress.com account or a MySpace and blog there - provide an email subscription link (this is very easy to do with FeedBurner), it doesn’t cost you a dime for either one of those.