VarieTEASE – Deconstruction
VarieTEASE – Deconstruction
Created by Blue
babyBLUESTAR Productions
Orange Venue, 2010 Orlando International Fringe Festival</strong>
The parade of small freaky child actors continues in this season’s VarieTEASE offering. Someone in the beer tent pointed out that every Fringe seems to have an unofficial theme – sometimes its excessive improv, or excessive male nudity, occasionally excessive Canadian monologists, but 2010 is the year of excessive underage female dancers. “Deconstruction” opens to a remixed “Live and Let Die” and a young, extremely flexible girl back flipping across the stage. Her mother enters with milk and cookies and as she leaves, the girl’s collection of stuffed animals comes to life and terrorizes the audience. Through some stage door magic, our youngster transforms into Blue who appear behind a silk scrim with her phantom lover. Ballet and expressive dance flow forward, but Blue and her lover can’t marry until mom gets around to dying. Along the way, Blue’s mixing skills give us music that sounds familiar yet can’t be placed. Rumors implicate The Tiger Lillies and Scissors Sisters, and I positively identified. “Good Morning, Good Morning” and “Getting High for Jesus” along with Depeche Mode and the gospel standards “You Can’t Hide.” A 6 foot joint appears and Chris MacIntyre passes it around the floor and into the audience, but there are no cookies for us. At the end, when mom dies we sort of feel sad, but then the wedding commences, and garters and bouquets hit the floor. While nothing will match the 2007 “Carnivale”, this show flows elegantly and mysteriously, and the young women float across the floor better than any of those in other shows.
This event is part of the 2010 Orlando International Fringe Festival. For schedule and ticket information, please visit http://OrlandoFringe.org
