Overheard at Fringe
“I like ‘hobbit,’ because the hobbits saved the world, and I’m down with that.”
- actor/director Suzanne Richard, explaining under the Baldacchino that ‘midget’ isn’t the preferred term for little people like her
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9:05 am
Suzie ROCKS!!!
1:15 pm
[...] Fringe!) at the Fringe and Purge blog, which you should all bookmark and check regularly, for the hobbit references, and because a whole bunch of us will be bloggy-bloggy-blogging there nonstop until Fringe [...]
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“Is there ANYBODY OUT THERE?”
A NEW CABARET Directed by Suzanne Richard
an OPEN CIRCLE THEATRE Production
http://www.opencircletheatre.org/
Flashpoint Mead Theatre Lab
916 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
HOW DO WE COMMUNICATE and what the hell do we have to say? Join a group of disabled and non-disabled performers as we wrestle with this simple question with song and sign. Suzanne Richard, OCT’s Artistic Director and a Helen Hayes Outstanding Director nominee, directs Is there ANYBODY OUT THERE? with the same fresh, fun, and thoughtful viewpoint that she applies to all of her projects.
July 10 & 11 at 8pm (Friday & Saturday)
July 17 & 18 at 8pm and 10pm (Friday & Saturday)
All performances will be:
Sign interpreted
Assisted Listening
Audio description on demand
Wheelchair accessible