| Adult Petting Zoo
Thursday - Saturday, May 6 - 8, 8pm
plus a midnight show on Saturday!
Buy tickets online!
New Orleans Fringe presents the second annual Adult Petting Zoo, transforming the Marigny Theatre and Allways Lounge into a den of theater antics and live unnatural acts. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased online at www.nofringe. org or at the door. Raising an eyebrow and asking yourself, "Hmmm, just what is an Adult Petting Zoo?"? In addition to being a brazen initiative of FATI, the Fringe Alternative Theatre Incubator, and a welcoming platform for challenging, risky performances, Adult Petting Zoo brings together a range of original theater for a weekend affair that is titillating, thought-provoking, and fun.
Emilie Whelan, newly anointed Performance Coordinator for the New Orleans Fringe, is thrilled to direct this event because, as she pronounces with an irresistibly come-hither allure, "there is nothing too big, too bold, or too dangerous for Fringe." Jazz Hand Job returns from Providence, RI with the Fringe Festival favorite, "Rigorous Disco of Doom," reinvented as the main feature. A crackpot swamp wedding turns into zombie mayhem as "Rigorous Disco of Doom" celebrates the writhing undead with exploding mirror balls and throbbing suits of sound. This dark dance of comedy is by turns gruesome and jubilant; a sepulchral story of love, lust and lascivious last rites.
Foreplay is on offer, to suit a variety of tastes - audience members are invited to circulate through a number of "exhibits" in the lounge. Goat in the Road Productions takes us behind the curtain of government "in action" as our legislators wrestle with each other over morality and pornography in an interactive installation piece, "The Meese Papers - A Government Mandated Performance Investigation" . Skin Horse Theater plays doctor on issues of gender and sex in a surrealist night club variety act based on a medical treatise in "Psychopathia Sexualis with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual Instinct". Local playwright, Gabrielle Reisman works the street performance life, Alyson Perry teasingly plays with what it is to be a clown, and Monique Moss draws out passions through her delirious dance. |
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