FRINGE REVIEW: Scout

POSTED: Saturday, September 22, 2012, 10:45 AM

Filed Under: Arts | On the Fringe Theater

Every year, there's hundreds and hundreds of performances at the Philly Fringe and Live Arts Festival, and unless it's one of the big shows, it's sometimes hard to tell what you're going to get. Here at Critical Mass we're sending writers to as many shows as we possibly can for 75 pocket-sized reviews over the course of the fest. Check back in with us at On The Fringe every day for real talk on what these things actually are!

SHOW: Scout

GROUP: Fur Collective

GENRE: Theater

ATTENDED: Mon., Sept. 17

CLOSES: Wed., Sept. 19 (Note: this review slipped through the cracks, apologies! —ed.)

BRIEF SELF-DESCRIPTION: This piece is ripe with patriotism and controversy. Using these entities this piece explores entitlement, occupation of space, and the world we inherit. Scout allows us to be critical of a country full of contradictions while still being completely enamored by its charm.

WE THINK: Three boy scouts (Hannah DeKeijzer, Yasmin Roberti, Anna Szapiro) sit around a campfire with a bag of marshmallows. The game is Chubby Bunny, and the objective is to speak while filling your mouth to maximum capacity. The scouts are attempting to finish the line "America is..." which makes a good deal of sense considering they are the Boy Scouts of America, after all. The responses sound about right in the beginning ("America is baseball," "America is babes"), but once the declaration comes out that "America isn't all that it's cracked up to be" then things take on a tone a bit heavier than just mere spitballin'. However, the heady debate goes unresolved as our characters quickly move onto a swimming hole, and with a running time of just under thirty minutes, it's never revisited. The premise is novel enough and the dialogue engaging, but the sudden ending leaves way too much on the table.

—Chris Brown

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