Michael Shaw Fisher

A show after my own heart. I loved every damn moment Roger Wodehouse was throwing his glam around. Don't argue with me or I'll bite your face off... Wait... If the show taught me anything it is that people are entitled to their own opinions... Some people are cats and others dogs... Some are both. Ah yes... I take back my hostility with my apologies. Bow-wow-meow;) PS. You may need to SEE the show to get that last reference.... full review

For personal reasons I found the story difficult to watch at times but there is NO questioning the level of quality put into this production. The performers devote themselves 100% to the story and this is not easy material to navigate. The invalid older man is "dying" (or so he says) and it seems everything he touches is marked to whither alongside him. He's a vacume of a former star who does not know how to handle the humiliation of old age nor how to claim his nature again. The last image th... full review

Rarely does one develop such affection for a performer as I did for Deanne Flaysher in the course of one hour. Her depiction of Butt Kapinski was the perfect blend of mysterious, absurd, and inventive childishness. The show is billed as a" film noir fantasi"a which it is but it all takes place within Butt Kapinski's child-like fantasy like a 7 year old on the playground creating an inaginary world in which every single audience member provides one piece of the puzzle. The show began with a s... full review

That was certainly the most original and weird experience I've had at the fringe thus far. Divine camp - that's what it is. It's not even the outrageous moments where the show pays off (the babysitter breast-feed rape or the bloody finale), it's in the ever-outrageous presentation of every single line and beat that makes this show a bit of a monster… The stage design just like the performances. Are equivalent to technicolor vomit that does not let up for the full hour in 25 minutes. Of course ... full review

A backwoods beat poetry noir performed among the clink of cocktails and the blanket of throbbing red lights and leering shadows. A sort of ritual with no purpose but dig and dig and dig, and as the search opens to rhyme and the rhyme falls into rhythm, the strange man in the fedora and a bottle in his hand leads us to wonder and marvel at both the maddening syncopation of his craft and the false duality of heaven and hell. It's common knowelege that Aaron Lyons already was a devil, a growling, ... full review

This show is about believing in yourself no matter what other people say. Even though this piece needs lots of work (one problem being her statistics which a lot of people are not going to agree with) she succeeded in pulling me in and respecting her bravery. Having a show of my own at the fringe and being addicted to reading reviews, I am sometimes tempted to become distracted with popular opinion - but this isn't, or in my opinion shouldn't be the primary reason why we make the art we make. ... full review

A Jerry Springer wet dream. So glad I was in attendance. Such a devoted cast and great direction. Keep going guys!!!!... full review

Alex has taken something special to him and made us special to us. He has given the fringe the gift in NO STATIC AT ALL. I loved every second of it. I came out loving HIM, his depreciation of self, his wind-ups to u expected outcomes. Revelation after revelation, he is in the moment completely and allows us to follow each step of his thoughts in this loving/living history. Thank you, Alex. I hope Josh calls soon - he has a true brother in you.... full review

If you need your Shakespeare fix at the 2013 HFF, here it is! HILARIOUS TO THE POINT OF RUPTURE OR RAPTURE. THIS SHOW IS AN ACE. The cast are dynamic in that they are both classically trained and uninhibited comedic maniacs. I came early and wasn't sure I had the energy after such a late night but they were better than a cup of coffee. Every singe person was spot on in this inventive mash-up of the Bard's most memorable works. There is such irreverence and reverence at the same time for Sha... full review

A fun deconstruction. I admit it is often confusing, but then I haven't read A Dream Play since college. The "project" centers mostly around Miss Julie her struggle, or more specifically the-actor-playing-her's struggle to find an interpretation of Miss Julie that she can apply to herself - or unlock Julie's secrets for a successful show. Along the way she the Dream Play is used to break into the many levels of interpreting Julie's story in a Pirendello-character-in-search-of-an-author quest, ... full review