TheTVolution Medal Listing for HFF21
The Hollywood Fringe Festival shows attended by The Tvolution, for 2021, are eligible for a “Medal” in one of FOUR categories. They are:
SUGAR AND SH*T … Bad Soup, Famished Horse or Baby with an Eye Patch.
By Ernest Kearney — “Sugar and Sh*t,” at the Hollywood Fringe Festival '21, is full of moments that clash and tumble and deprive both the actresses and their audience of the show that could have been. Which is a pity because
(It’s Been 76 Years and We’re) STILL WAITING FOR LEFTY… Who’s in a Rush?
By Ernest Kearney — With “(It's Been 76 Years and We're) Still Waiting For Lefty,” presented during Hollywood Fringe '21, Playwright Gregory Crafts has taken up the challenge of rekindling the 1935 theatrical fire set by Clifford Odets’s Depression Era drama.
WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD… A Radioactive Immersive Farce for Our Time
By Ernest Kearney — A time warped backyard BBQ where the hot dogs and burgers come with extra strangeness and squirt of inanity to go along with the mustard and pickles, in "Welcome to the Neighborhood."
LIES, ANGER AND FORGIVENESS… Celebrates the Salvation of a Human Heart
By Ernest Kearney — Saba takes us down the rabbit hole of the American dream in her HFF21 presentation of “Lies, Anger and Forgiveness,” and it is a thoroughly enjoyable trip.
Paige Fockler’s I’M FINE… Adventures in Her Brain
By Ernest Kearney — Paige Fockler sets up an interesting reality in her Hollywood Fringe one-woman show. She has barged into her therapist’s office without an appointment, hoping she’ll be able to squeeze-in between those in the waiting room with appointments.
VICE… Danger, Will Robinson! Danger! The Future Is Not Nice!
By Ernest Kearney — "Vice" is a futuristic, dystopian drama, chock full of revolution, the dominance of virtual reality to keep populations docile, a matriarchal dictatorship, families torn apart, techno-enforced totalitarianism, and an ever-present “Big Sister” to assure compliance.
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THE REICHSTAG IS BURNING… Hot but not Sizzling
By Ernest Kearney — At the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival, "The Girl Who Jumped Off the Hollywood Sign" —written and performed by Jenne Hartstone— earned a number of honors, including the Tvolution Award for Best Solo Show (female,) and left no doubts about
TOMB Buries Itself
By Ernest Kearney — “Tomb” borrows from Stephen King’s The Shining and George Lukas’ classic THX 1138. There’s nothing wrong with that, except they haven’t borrowed the interesting parts.
BLACK WOMAN IN DEEP WATER – The Hallowing of Sufferance
By Ernest Kearney — "Black Woman in Deep Water" written and performed by Makena Hammond, under Jane Fleiss Brogger’s, direction is a pearl whose value is reflected not in its size but in its perfection.