The adage of theatre holding a mirror up to society is fitting. While is not the only medium to reveal the human condition, live theatre is aptly suited to the task. For us to gather in the same room, breathe the same air and witness someone just like us transform before our eyes and tell another person’s truth is inspiring and powerful. Stephen Spotswood (Andromeda Breaks) brings a deep sense of theatrical tension and release to a story we thought we know, the original damsel in distress. Farah Lawal Harris (America’sWives) gift at using many layers of language, poetry, prose brings a sense of deep tradition and culture to a modern, contemporary world. Matthew Capodicasa (The City Of . . .) pulls us down a rabbit hole into a world that is both scary and familiar, far off but also quite intimate as we seek what it means to remember. In all of our thirteen years, each Fringe Festival schedule always has a bit of Shake- speare and adaptations of classical texts. It is clear that DC audiences love classical texts and the wisdom they contain.With the goal to continue to adapt and evolve our programs, Fringe commissioned three new plays drawn from folklore or myth for this year’s Capital Fringe Festival.We brought together a design team, hired the directors and actors and set to collectively craft each stitch, sound, light, word, action and search for meaning. Myths are stories from ancient times. Stories of a search by human beings to find meaning.We are searching for stories of experience.We are searching to add to our story.We hope our three new play adaptations spark a story in you or enable you to remember a truth you might of lost. OLD MYTHS. NEW PLAYS. Founder/CEO
Festival Producer
Guiding Quotes & Statements Where are we starting from, and where are we going?
What’s past is prologue.
We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before us.The labyrinth is throughly know. . . we have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where had thought to find an abomination we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves. And where we had thought to travel outward we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we shall be with all the world. Joseph Campbell
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