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2023 FRINGEARTS FESTIVAL
The Moor. The maiden. The mother. The madman. When the bested queen of Goths is unfettered, chaos erupts, and Rome is embroiled in a bitter war of retribution. Pledge your loyalty, plot your revenge, and prepare yourself to experience the madness of Shakespeare’s oldest tragedy like never before.
The Artist’s Debt
2023 FRINGEARTS FESTIVAL
Creation fosters creation, in all of its forms. Tyler Palma’s multimedia gallery invites audiences into his love letter to artistic inspiration. Exploring the intrinsic ties between performance, creativity, and community, Tyler celebrates the webs of interconnectedness that have drawn artists together from time immemorial.
Rising from a Thousand Thrones
2022 FRINGEARTS FESTIVAL
Victor Frankenstein invites audiences into a radical experiment at the home of authoress, Mary Shelley. Piece by piece, a hideous progeny takes shape. Mary is besieged by an ancient power that reaches out from the fathomless ocean depths, and she must confront the specters and scandal of her past to save her literary child from an unspeakable fate.
Fragments from the Maelstrom
2022 FRINGEARTS FESTIVAL
In this exhibit, artist and photographer, Phineas K. Gage pulls back the thin veil of reality to peer into Forgotten Lore Theatre’s immersive world, Evermore. In his unique style, Gage’s images and abstractions give voice to a dark and inexpressible reality devised from the interwoven imaginations of some of history’s greatest literary minds.
Lovers and Madmen
2021 FRINGEARTS FESTIVAL
Romp with lovers. Rehearse with mechanicals. Revel with fairies. Revere the goddess. Something wicked stirs in the wood outside Athens. The Amazon queen, Hippolyta plots to liberate herself from her captor and would-be husband, Theseus. With only four nights before the royal wedding, Hippolyta takes flight into the forest to invoke the favor of an ancient goddess setting into motion a series of misadventures for the Athenian citizens and misfortunes for the fairy denizens of the wood.
Illimitable Dominion
2020 FRINGEARTS FESTIVAL
1859. Poe was dead to begin with. The dominion of the Red Death grows, infecting the streets of Charles Dickens’s London. Blending and bending the legacies of two literary icons, audiences are taken into a socially-distanced immersive experience that explores the emergence from isolation into a world re-imagined by Poe’s most lethal creation.
Ashes of a Dead Philosophy
2016 FRINGEARTS FESTIVAL
January, 1850. Edgar Allan Poe is dead, but his creations are restless. At a masquerade gone mad guests are plunged into the fictive but all too real world of the late author’s imagination. Guests become pawns in a violent game played by Poe’s most infamous characters that questions the fate of art after the artist.
Dissever My Soul
2015 FRINGEARTS FESTIVAL
“The Red Death held illimitable dominion over all”… even its creator. Opposed by the characters that people his work, Edgar Allan Poe unravels the mysteries of life and death through the very words he penned to overcome the forces that keep him from his lost love, Virginia. A love story only America’s master of horror could tell.