Come see Joshua English Scrimshaw in the 2009 Minnesota Fringe Festival!
The Twin Cities' very own sibling detectives, Fred and Jack Hearty, tackle another thrilling mystery in this affectionate parody of children's adventure novels! Action for the kids, wit for the adults, comedy for everybody!
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Joshua English Scrimshaw and
Levi Weinhagen
FEATURING
Joshua English Scrimshaw, Levi Weinhagen,
Ari Hoptman, Leslie Ball, Arnie Roos
Andy Kraft, Sulia Altenberg
and Spencer Levin
with original music by Marc Doty
DATES and TIMES:
Fri July 31st - 7:00pm
Sat Aug 1 - 4pm
Wed Aug 5 - 5:30pm
Sat Aug 8 - 2:30pm
Sun Aug 9 - 5:30pm
WHERE:
University of Minnesota Rarig Center Thrust
330 21st Ave. S. in Minneapolis
TICKETS*
Adults: $12
Kids ages 5 to 12: $5
Students & Seniors (must show ID): $10
*A one time purchase of $4 Fringe button required for
admittance to all Fringe Festival shows
Visit www.fringefestival.org and include
The Hearty Boys in The Case of the Limping Platypus
in your Fringe Schedule!
For pictures, cast bios, blogs and other fun stuff
visit the Official Hearty Boys Website!
Joshua can also be seen in
Ari Hoptman's Fringe Festival Production:
See you at the Fringe!
A ONE HOUR, FIVE ACT SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY
BASED ON THE REAL LIFE OF A RANDOM AUDIENCE MEMBER!
WRITTEN and PERFORMED by JOSEPH SCRIMSHAW!
FEATURING ORIGINAL MUSIC by DENNIS CURLEY!
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WHAT:
Joseph Scrimshaw's Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of You is a unique combination of storytelling, improv, music, audience interaction and traditional theater! Joseph Scrimshaw weaves the real life ambitions and tragic flaws of the audience volunteer into a complex mad-lib story of murder, madness and comedy!
Continuing his experiments with high quality interactive theater, Joseph's new show examines what strengths and weaknesses connect all people by replacing Shakespeare's traditional royal protagonist with the real life of a random audience member. What kingdom will they rule? Who will they ruthlessly murder and why? What tragic flaw will bring about their inevitable destruction? In addition to the audience-based protagonist, Joseph will also portray such Shakespearean characters as: the wise old man, the clown, the traitorous friend, the doomed love interest and the invading Norwegian!
WHO:
Written and performed by Joseph Scrimshaw!
Live music by Dennis Curley!
WHERE:
The Bryant Lake Bowl
810 W Lake St
Minneapolis, MN 55408
On the corner of Bryant and Lake in South Minneapolis
WHEN:
EVERY FRIDAY in APRIL!
Fri, April 3rd; Fri, April 10th;
Fri, April 17th; Fri, April 24th
ALL SHOWS at 7 PM!
Doors open at 6 PM for dining and drinking in the theater!
HOW MUCH:
Regular admission: $14
Fringe button holder/Student/Senior: $12
For reservations call 612-825-8949 or
buy tickets online by clicking here.
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The Scrimshaw Brothers are a Minneapolis comedy team specializing in sketch and theatrical comedy. The Brothers are staples of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, among City Pages'2002 Artists of the Year and the creators of two Twin Cities' late night cabarets, Look Ma No Pants and The Scrimshaw Show. The Pioneer Press calls the Scrimshaw Brothers “the Twin Cities' sharpest sketch comedy team” and in 2003, Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine named The Scrimshaw Brothers as one of the Twin Cities' top ten family owned businesses.
Joseph Scrimshaw is an actor, writer, and producer. Joseph has performed with Bedlam Theater, Mystery Cafe, the History Theatre, the MN Shakespeare Project, and is a resident performer of children's theater at the Old Gem in New Richmond, Wisconsin. As an independent writer and producer, Joseph has created multiple top ten best selling Fringe shows including Worst Show in the Fringe Die, Clowns, Die!, and Macbeth's Awesome Scottish Castle Party; and is an occasional arts commentator on MPR and The Current with Mary Lucia. Joseph is now an internationally produced playwright. His hit romantic comedy Adventures in Mating has appeared in New York, Seattle, the UK, Bulgaria, and every Monday night at the Bryant Lake Bowl right here in Minneapolis. Joseph has been described as "clever and inventive" by the Star Tribune, "physically fearless" by Pioneer Press and "King of Comedy" by MN Monthly. For more info on Joseph and his projects visit josephscrimshaw.com.
Joshua English Scrimshaw, as chance would have it, is also an actor, writer and producer, not to mention a "clever and inventive voice in comedy theater"(Star Tribune). In 2002, he collaborated with choreographer Adrienne English to create the dance and silent comedy show Shut Your Joke Hole, named by City Pages as one of the Twin Cities' ten best theater productions of the year. Joshua also teamed with Shanan Wexler to write and produce From Here to Maternity, one of the top selling shows of the 2007 Minnesota Fringe Festival. In addition to writing and producing, Joshua has performed with many local theater companies playing such diverse roles as Orestes in Bedlam Theater's production of Jean Paul Sartre's The Flies, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Theater in the Round's production of Twelfth Night and D.B. Cooper in Cheap Theater's original production DB Cooper Didn't Die. A frequent collaborator with Hardcover Theater, Joshua was featured in the final three installments of the hit Victorian serial London After Midnight and co-wrote Johnny Bocca's Sex Farce for Swingin' Lovers, an adaptation of the saucy Medieval classic, The Decameron. Joshua can be seen sporadically as part of the Actors Theater of Minnesota production of Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding and next year will reunite with Hardcover Theater for an adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's classic comedy novel, Right Ho, Jeeves!
Please visit 10000comicbooks.com
The website of our Scrimshaw Show co-star Tim Uren!
Photos on this site courtesy of
Jen Scott, Scott Pakudaitis and Dan Hetzel