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Back to Fringe, After a Purge: A Long Preface to My WaPo Capital Fringe story

Chris Klimek

I am not a performer, but I think of myself as a Capital Fringe veteran. 2006, the summer of the first Capital Fringe — our unjuried and aesthetically unreliable but gloriously democratic performing arts festival, open to anyone who can fill out some forms and cough up a relatively modest enrollment fee — was my first as a resident of the District. I had a part-time job at the Studio Theatre that year, which I’d gotten as a result of having come to Studio in the employ of a performer who’d done a show there the prior spring. But I was only just becoming a theater person, an interest that would deepen as I began to cover theater for DCist, may it rest in power, in 2007. My first Washington Paper City cover story was about the fifth Captial Fringe, in 2010.

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categories theatre
tags Capital Fringe Festival, The Washington Post, Pinky Swear Productions, Mike Daisey

Kinky Reboots: Mies Julie and Bondage, reviewed.

Chris Klimek

Hilda Cronje and Bongile Mantsai in Mies Julie. (Rodger Bosch)

My reviews of Mies Julie, a South African August Strindberg update, and Bondage, a 1992 David Henry Hwang play from locals Pinky Swear Productions, are in today's Washington City Paper.

While their origins and scale differ, it's useful to compare the productions to one another. Both plays use the sexual negotiations of an interracial couple as means of discussing the troubled racial histories of their native lands.

Bondage reminded me of David Ives' Venus in Fur, while Mies Julie recalled uncomfortably a slavery-era exploitation flick from 1975 called Mandingo that's come up lately in discussions of Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave. I don't imagine that's what adapter-director Yael Farber was going for, but nothing exists in a vacuum.  Anyway, read.

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categories Theater, theatre
tags play reviews, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Pinky Swear Productions, Toni Rae Salmi, Yael Farber, Ken Norton, Mandingo, Mies Julie, Bondage, David Henry Hwang, August Strindberg, Hilda Cronje, Bongile Mantsai, Washington City Paper, South Africa