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Cincy Fringe Encore of SOMETHING SOMETHING NEW VAGINA from Rebecca King

KNOW THEATRE and the CINCINNATI FRINGE FESTIVAL present
A Cincy Fringe Encore of SOMETHING SOMETHING NEW VAGINA from Rebecca Kling!

A solo performance about laughter, surgery, activism, and a brand new vagina.

CFF_Something Something New VaginaThe Cincinnati Fringe Festival and Know Theatre of Cincinnati are proud to announce the return of Rebecca Kling’s hit 2014 Fringe show, Something Something New Vagina. This Cincy Fringe Encore will take place January 9 & 10 at 8PM in The Underground at Know Theatre.

Something Something New Vagina is a solo performance about loving one’s self and one’s body. It’s also about a vagina: Rebecca Kling’s fancy new vagina. Prior to her performance of this show at the 2014 Cincy Fringe, Kling was seen in Cincinnati at the 2012 Fringe with Storms Beneath Her Skin. She’s delighted to be back (she was never one to call it clits) and is ready to tackle issues of identity without ovary-acting. Climaxing with a Strip Q&A, you’d be doing yourself a dis-cervix if you miss it.

Something Something New Vagina was a 2014 Cincinnati CityBeat Critic’s Pick.

About the Artist: Rebecca Kling is a transgender artist and educator who explores gender and identity through solo pieces and educational workshops. Her multidisciplinary performances incorporate conversational storytelling, personal narrative, humor, movement, and more. Kling takes the position that sharing accessible queer narrative with a wide audience is a form of activism, and that understanding combats bigotry. She regularly tours to colleges, universities, and theatre festivals across the country, and has received praise from media outlets coast to coast. In 2013, Kling was named as part of the inaugural Trans 100, a list celebrating excellence in the transgender community. In 2014, she was named as the as one of 25 Writers to Watch by the Guild Literary Complex.

Tickets for this Cincy Fringe Encore are just $15! Call our box office at 513-300-5669 or visit https://know.tixato.com/buy for tickets.

Since 1997, Know Theatre has been dedicated to creating explosive and evocative live entertainment. We value a playful artistic community where artists can collaborate and grow.

Know Theatre’s work is made possible, in part, by the generosity of community contributions to the ArtsWave Campaign. The Ohio Arts Council helps fund Know Theatre with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. Know Theatre is also supported by The Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, helping to change our communities for the better through collaboration and innovation, and the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, which provides a simple, powerful, and highly personal approach to giving.

 Know Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group and an Associate member of the National New Play Network.

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[FRANKENSTEIN] Runs Oct. 27-28

Harper Lee & Dylan Shelton.

Harper Lee & Dylan Shelton.

[FRANKENSTEIN]
Presented by Know Theatre of Cincinnati
Oct. 27-28
Over-the-Rhine

Cast: Merritt Beischel, Dylan Shelton, Harper Lee & Alex Talks

A mysterious disease rages; wiping out women in a place and time not far from here and now. Baffled by the sickness and drowning in his own grief, a brilliant scientist develops a radical solution. A (very) loose adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, [Frankenstein] is told through music, movement, drama, and film.

  • Mon-Tue, Oct. 27-28 at 8pm

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KEVIN THORNTON TALKY CONCERT THINGY on Oct. 21

KTC_Kevin Thornton ThingyKEVIN THORNTON TALKY CONCERT THINGY
Presented by Know Theatre of Cincinnati
Oct. 21
Over-the-Rhine

Cincy Fringe favorite Kevin Thornton [Sex, Dreams, and Self-Control, I Love You (We’re F*%cked), Bryyann Loves You] returns with new songs, new stories, and new underwear. Join him for a hilarious, semi-unscripted evening of music, storytelling, and comedy in Know Theatre’s Underground.

  • Tue, Oct. 21 at 8pm

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Double Your Play Pleasure at CPT With Two Honored Shorts in October

Double Your Play Pleasure at CPT
Two Honored Shorts take the Clifton Stage in October

SARGE and THE MONKEY’S PAW written by Kevin Crowley Fri. Oct 10 – Sun. Oct. 19

Christine Dye as Jerry Sandusky's wife, Dottie, in Kevin Crowley's SARGE.

Christine Dye as Jerry Sandusky’s wife, Dottie, in Kevin Crowley’s SARGE.

Can a person be so close to evil it leaves them blind? This question and others are examined in the play “SARGE.” The short by Kevin Crowley was the Critics Pick for Best of Fringe at the 2014 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The play and its title character were inspired by the recent headlines surrounding football coach Jerry Sandusky.

Jerry Sandusky’s wife, Dottie is re-imagined in monologues. In the Jerry Sandusky scandal, one figure remains the most enigmatic to the public, his wife, Dottie, or Sarge, as she was known. People tend to dismiss her as complicit, a liar, naive or delusional. “Sarge”, imagines her in three settings over the course of a year as the Sandusky scandal plays out. The play is the work of actor/writer and director Kevin Crowley, who when not acting on the silver screen, calls the Clifton Performance Theatre home.

Crowley has created a script that leaves one grasping at every word from the title character, looking for a moment to lay blame. Crowley says he does not want the story to provide answers, “I never wanted to make anyone love or hate her. I really just wanted to know, for my own edification, what was it like to be in that situation as the wheels came off their life together. The words are carefully crafted and presented with great precision by actress Christine Dye. Dye’s turn as the tough den mother to wayward boys takes you on a roller coaster ride of emotions. Is she villain, victim or both? Catch “SARGE” now before it heads south for a run in New Orleans.

Carol Brammer & Dylan Shelton in THE MONKEY'S PAW.

Carol Brammer & Dylan Shelton in THE MONKEY’S PAW.

The second play on this double feature is another short by Crowley called “The Monkey’s Paw.” The cast includes CPT regular Carol Brammer and actor Dylan Shelton. It is tale of two people consumed by the anxieties of early parenthood. Mike, a new father, is terrified and jealous of his son. Meanwhile his wife is fighting her own building fear of the world outside the for walls of their home. “The Monkey’s Paw” is a dark comedy exposing parenting on a different level.” Nat Cassidy of NY Theatre Now says, “ It’s smart stuff on Crowley’s part.”

  • October 10 Friday 8pm
  • October 11 Saturday 8pm
  • October 12 Sunday 7pm
  • October 16 Thursday 8pm
  • October 17 Friday 8pm
  • October 18 Saturday 8pm
  • October 19 Sunday 3pm
  • October 20 Monday 8pm

You can order tickets online at https://cpt.tixato.com/buy or call 513-861-SHOW (7469). The Clifton Performance Theatre is located at 404 Ludlow Ave.

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SARGE and THE MONKEY’S PAW Run Oct. 10-20

CP_Sarge and Monkeys PawSARGE and THE MONKEY’S PAW
Presented by Clifton Players
Oct. 10-20
Clifton

Written and directed by Kevin Crowley

SARGE was the critic’s pick in the 2014 Cincinnati Fringe Festival, hailed as “a solid, unflinching portrayal of a woman in a state of crisis, yet trying to hold her life together.” [My Fringe review -Rob]

THE MONKEY’S PAW is a hilarious, surreal look at parenting and marriage. Mike and Tish’s son is missing. Tish can’t leave home until he returns and Mike can’t ever get the house clean enough. This play has been produced in London and NY and will have a limited run with SARGE.

  • Fri-Sat, Oct. 10-11 at 8pm
  • Sun, Oct. 12 at 7pm
  • Thu-Sat, Oct. 16-18 at 8pm
  • Sun, Oct. 19 at 3pm
  • Mon, Oct. 20 at 8pm

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