Expand<\/a><\/p>\nPittsburgh clown Sara Kantner will bring\u00a0her one-woman comedy about a fictional British queen to Scranton. Performers like Kantner do everything from pass out flyers on the street to help set up their performance space.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe appeal of a fringe festival is that you are seeing really fresh, new work from creators who, I would say, have a lot of passion, because it\u2019s all self-produced work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
A new style of clowning is enjoying an uptick in popularity, according to a May article in The New Yorker magazine. Kantner\u2019s queen is a time traveler who needs a job. She\u2019s been working on the character since she was 16, but the queen comes out a little different each time.<\/p>\n
She has previously performed at the Montreal Clown Festival and at fringe festivals in Hollywood, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Her performances are Saturday and Sunday at the Workshop, a newly formed media and small performance space on Adams Avenue.<\/p>\n
One of the festival\u2019s other events is the first to take place while riding bikes. The Anthracite Bicycle Coalition Storyslam Ride-O-Brunch is Sunday.<\/p>\n
Scranton Fringe doesn\u2019t set a theme for the festival, but trends sometimes emerge. A few shows are spins on William Shakespeare, including \u201cShakespeare\u2019s Midsummer: A Gaye Olde Tyme (Almost A Musical),\u201d while \u201cRue\u201d and \u201cSweet Prince\u201d have their roots in \u201cHamlet.\u201d<\/p>\n
By category<\/p>\n
Events are not all theater. They include a 3D projection at the Scranton Iron Furnaces on Thursday and Friday, open mic nights, a silent disco, improv and a gay and drag dance party.<\/p>\n
Events with local ties include \u201cThe Ferment,\u201d \u201cMock Turtle Soup,\u201d \u201cShe Speaks,\u201d \u201cLIVE \u2026 From This Room!,\u201d \u201cFinding Matt Damon,\u201d \u201cSandglass,\u201d \u201cGlass Menagerie,\u201d a Banned Book Brunch and \u201cDown to Fifty-Four.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shows for kids include \u201cThe Curious Chemistry Live Science Show,\u201d \u201cThe Wind in the Willows\u201d and \u201cRecycled Puppets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shows that deal with race as a theme include \u201cStand\u2022Up\/ish: Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl,\u201d and \u201cThe Trouble with My Hair: Coloring, Cutting, and Coming into Who I Am.\u201d<\/p>\n
Open mic nights and children\u2019s shows have free admission. Other free events include Friday\u2019s opening event at the Scranton Iron Furnaces, the Banned Book Brunch at the Black Scranton Project Cultural Center and an evening of ghost stories at the Lost and Found Bookstore.<\/p>\n
Venues<\/p>\n
Some of the other venues include Strange Birds, Groove Brewing, the Electric City Trolley Museum, Electric City Improv, Black & Brass, AFA Gallery, the Scranton Cultural Center and Friendly Alien Bookstore.<\/p>\n
Tickets<\/p>\n
Tickets, the schedule, descriptions, age recommendations and content warnings are available at scrantonfringe.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 12th Scranton Fringe Festival begins Thursday with something for everyone \u2014 and some things that are decidedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1681,201,182,28,178,180,179,1483,289,50547],"class_list":["post-296995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-entertainment","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-theater","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-wgn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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