2011 Berkshire Fringe

Join us for our best season ever!

It’s outrageously original and entirely new!

The Return of the Pi Clowns

July 30 to August 15

They’re back and this time they mean business!

Featuring Andrew P. Quick, Leah C. Gardner, Jon Deline, Tyler Parks and Bruce Glaseroff

Delightful mayhem and glory await you as the Pi Clowns make their return to The Berkshires. With a heaping helping of new buffoonery, they will have audiences of all ages rolling on the floor with laughter.

Our Man – August 3 to August 7

Goat in the Road Productions
Conceived and performed by William Bowling and Christopher Kaminstein, with key collaboration by Sascha Stanton-Craven.

Filled with rapid-fire dialog and agile physical comedy, the play explores the contemporary political landscape through the lens of a surreal 1950’s era radio broadcast. Two men inside a small glass box narrate the life and exploits of one of the “The Gipper”, who is deftly portrayed by a wooden tennis racket.

FACE – August 4 to August 8

Written and Performed by Haerry Kim, Video/Projection by Yuni Moon/ Timothy Kim, Lighting design by Jakyung Seo, Sound design by Eun Jin Cho

Inspired by testimonies of Korean Comfort Women during World War II, FACE reveals the harrowing and true story of one woman at war with her past. By unveiling vivid images and asking daring questions about history, violence and sexual slavery, FACE constructs a lyrical exposé of survival.

What Happened to Bill Viola?

August 10 to August 14

Written by Cory Hinkle, Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh

On leave from her Banraku puppet piece on Amelia Earhart, Violet Foster brings the Berkshire Fringe her tour de force inquiry into the life of Bill Viola and a personal look at obsession. Guerrilla video, emotional ballad and ground-breaking performance art converge to ask THE ONLY QUESTION THAT MUST BE ANSWERED.

Tangled Yarn – August 11 to August 15

Tangled Yarn”>Written and Performed by Anaïs Alexandra Tekerian, Featuring live drawings by Kevork Mourad, Original music by Armenian a capella folk trio Zulal

Using poetic narrative, Tangled Yarn unravels the story of Ismene, a heroine living in the shadow of her famed sister Antigone and without a fate of her own. Obscuring the lines between past and present, legend and invention, Ismene must untangle the stories of her Armenian and Latvian Grandmothers in order to determine her own destiny.