ON THE FRINGE: Win two tickets to see Tribe of Fools' Dracula

There's something intriguing about a show so spooky, they make you sign a waiver (for real!) before you sit down. Dracula, playing Sept. 2-6 and 8-11 at St. Stephen's Theater, is such a performance, and we're dying (get it?!) to go. Here's what Molly Eichel had to say about the show, in her monster-riffic Fringe roundup: Instead of some clichÃ©d BÃ©la Lugosi knockoff, Tribe of Fools is digging deeper, focusing on the brain fever suffered by hapless solicitor Jonathan Harker from Bram Stoker's OG novel. "The stuff that we're playing with comes from us doing about a year of research about fear — both the psychological and biological mechanisms," says Tribe artistic director/Dracula director Jay Wojnarowski. The idea is to work your amygdala over pretty good. To win a pair of tickets to the 7 p.m. show this Saturday night (Sept. 4), answer me this:

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ON THE FRINGE: Win two tickets to see Tribe of Fools' Dracula

POSTED: Friday, September 3, 2010, 3:00 PM

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There's something intriguing about a show so spooky, they make you sign a waiver (for real!) before you sit down. Dracula, playing Sept. 2-6 and 8-11 at St. Stephen's Theater, is such a performance, and we're dying (get it?!) to go.

Here's what Molly Eichel had to say about the show, in her monster-riffic Fringe roundup:

Instead of some clichÃ©d BÃ©la Lugosi knockoff, Tribe of Fools is digging deeper, focusing on the brain fever suffered by hapless solicitor Jonathan Harker from Bram Stoker's OG novel. "The stuff that we're playing with comes from us doing about a year of research about fear — both the psychological and biological mechanisms," says Tribe artistic director/Dracula director Jay Wojnarowski. The idea is to work your amygdala over pretty good.

To win a pair of tickets to the 7 p.m. show this Saturday night (Sept. 4), answer me this:

What are two real-life conditions that are sometimes described as brain fever?

E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win. [UPDATE, 11:17 a.m.]: Big ups to CritMass reader Carrie, who correctly identified the conditions as meningitis and encephalitis (though she points out, "Brain fever sounds much cooler. I put it up there with crotch rot, square dancer cancer, and the hippie hippie shakes.") We couldn't agree with you more, Carrie.

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