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Philly Fringe @ the Bike
Yellow Bicycle Theater’s lineup for the Philly Fringe Festival this September features 8 outside productions from across the country, 2 co-productions from New York, a reading of a new play by a YBC actor, a workshop on producing at the Bike and an open-captioned screening of the winning films from Bicycle Shorts 2024 combined with in-person monologues about—you guessed it—bicycles. Check the listings below and see you at the Bike! #phillyfringeatthebike
SEPTEMBER 5-29, 2024
Outside Productions
Damned Without Vision
The Up & Rising Collective
Theater, Immersive/Interactive Experience
Run Time: 100 mins
Ticket Price: Pay What You Can (suggested $20)
Dates: September 20, 2024 – September 22, 2024
Set smack in the middle of our dangerous assumptions of what keeps us safe, what kind of justice we owe ourselves, a country leading a global prison economy, and what we could build instead. Right now. Today.
Ghosted
Celeste Walker
Theater, Storytelling
Run Time: 75 mins
Ticket Price: $20
Dates: September 12, 2024 – September 14, 2024
“With every wish, there comes a curse,” Bruce Springsteen. GHOSTED is a solo show about reconciliation with past ghosts, reclaiming an authentic self, and finding empowerment through resiliency. One woman tells a story, 35 years in the making.
NE-FAiRY-OUS!
Susan Sassi, When Susan Calls
Theater, Comedy & Improv, Music
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $20
Dates: September 6, 2024 – September 8, 2024
A multi-media musical solo show about a fairy changeling who is abused & left alone with no friends, talents, or control over her emotions or bodily secretions (sweat & tears). Desperate to find joy, she goes on an absurd quest through musicals, game shows, & cartoons to find her happy ending.
Noah’s No-Show Show
Noah Max Levine
Theater, Comedy & Improv
Run Time: 50 mins
Ticket Price: $10
Dates: September 5, 2024 – September 8, 2024
It’s opening night of a brand new play. With the cast and crew missing, can one actor take on every role and bring the performance to life? Well, Noah is going to try! This solo improvised comedy turns an audience-suggested title into a spontaneous work of theatre.
Penis Envy
Becky Bondurant
Theater, Spoken Word & Storytelling
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $20
Dates: September 13, 2024 – September 15, 2024
Monologist Becky Bondurant threads her coming-of-middle-age story through a Freudian needle, weaving from eating disorders and female orgasms to circumcision and breastfeeding against a backdrop of political crisis. Like a filthy and frank remix of “What the Constitution Means to Me.”
Rhymes With Orange
Rhymes With Orange
Theater, Comedy & Improv, Immersive/Interactive Experience
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $15
Dates: September 29, 2024
Rhymes With Orange is a multidisciplinary arts collective specializing in interactive improvisation, character exploration, and long-form audiovisual experiences. Our goals are to entertain, to connect people, and to spread an experience of playful joy.
Roominate
Roominate
Heavy Balloon Productions
Run Time: 40 mins
Ticket Price: $15
Dates: September 15, 2024 – September 17, 2024
Sometimes life keeps us up at night. Sometimes life makes us want to stay in bed. All Day. We can’t do that though, right?! This fun physical theatre piece asks the question: Why does it matter if I get out of bed in the morning? Come for the quick quippy witty writing and stay for the pillow talk.
Up In The Air
Bill Wadhams
Theater, Music, Storytelling
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $15
Venue: Yellow Bicycle Theater Dates: September 18, 2024
In 1985, MTV viewers were captivated by Bill Wadhams of the synth-pop band, Animotion as he sang the top 10 hit, “Obsession.” “Up In The Air” traces one man’s musical journey as he seeks to find his true voice, family, redemption, and home.
Co-productions
No Exit
Night Cook Studio
Theater
Run Time: 90 mins
Ticket Price: $25
Dates: September 26, 2024 – September 29, 2024
Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist classic introduces three characters in a plain, windowless room, one by one. Over the course of 90 minutes, they slowly realize that they are stuck in the room—and in each other’s constant presence—forever, with no way out.
Vigil
Stain’D Glass
Theater
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $10
Dates: September 25, 2024
Join the Barrett clan as they hold vigil for their beloved mother and grandmother. Vigil is the telling of the last days in the life of a family matriarch. The complexity of family dynamics and our relationship with death is met with gentle humor and nuanced drama in this new play by Deborah Glassman. The production is a rehearsed reading.
Without God As My Lover
Taproot Creatives
Theater
Run Time: 100 mins
Ticket Price: $25
Dates: September 19, 2024 – September 22, 2024
Following her estranged father’s funeral, staunch atheist TERESA looks for answers from the priest who took her father’s last confession. FATHER DANIEL’s faith lifts her chin just as she shakes his foundation. An improbable and altogether forbidden romance blossoms as the two go head to head.
Yellow Bicycle Productions
Bicycle Shorts
Yellow Bicycle Company
Theater, Film
Run Time: 105 mins
Ticket Price: Pay What You Can (min. $5)
Dates: September 29, 2024
Award-winning films from Bicycle Shorts Film Festival 2024 combined with in-person monologues by actors and filmmakers. You’ll see riveting travelogues, trippy animation, laugh-out-loud comedy. You’ll hear bicycling anecdotes, behind-the-scenes accounts, YBC’s origin story. There will be bikes!
How to Produce at the Bike
Yellow Bicycle Company
Theater, Workshops/Classes
Run Time: 90 mins
Ticket Price: FREE
Dates: September 15, 2024
YBC is rewriting the playbook on small theater rentals to help artists make art. Join YBC director Joshua Crone for a step-by-step guide to producing your show at the Bike, from casting and rehearsal to marketing and tech. Participants receive 20% off their next rental.