ON THE FRINGE: Water Bears in Space

Candra Kennedy (who also wrote/directed the fantastic Rails in Fringe '09) finds melodrama in the least likely places.

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ON THE FRINGE: Water Bears in Space

POSTED: Sunday, September 4, 2011, 12:40 PM

Candra Kennedy (who also wrote/directed the fantastic Rails in Fringe ’09) finds melodrama in the least likely places — in this case, the day-to-day lives of the titular microorganisms (scientifically, tardigrades) and the professional wranglings of the scientists who study them. Here are two parallel, quasi-archetypal narratives: a quest saga starring three plucky, adorable microbe puppets and a laboratory power struggle featuring the always-dynamic Kate Black-Regan as a gleefully demented, thumbless mad microbiologist. Act I ends with a chorus line of dancing thumbs, and by the second act, as gravity and sanity lose their grip, things rocket past creatively campy to utterly, transcendently bizarre.

Runs through Sept. 16, 7 p.m, $10, Circle of Hope, 1125 S. Broad St. MORE INFO HERE.

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