FRINGE 2013: Festival Preview

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MARC MARON PAGE 22

INTERVIEW

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RETURN OF THE FRINGE

INTRODUCTION | BY ERIC REZSNYAK

A year ago Rochester still didn’t really know what to expect from a Fringe festival. But after five days of dancing on buildings, light shows, A-list comedians, improvisational puppets, gospel choirs, geriactors, drag queens, kids shows, physical theater, and dozens of other acts, the people got it. More than 32,000 people turned out for the festival’s inaugural year, way outpacing organizers’ expectations. In response, the 2013 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival has expanded to 10 days, taking place September 19-28. That’s double the time to take in all the dance, visual art, music, comedy, theater, and family shows being offered up in 28 venues in downtown Rochester.

The Rochester Fringe Festival is put on by a nonprofit corporation kickstarted by some of the area’s key cultural institutions, including Geva Theatre Center, the George Eastman House, Garth Fagan Dance, and Eastman School of Music, among others.

What makes Fringe different from other arts festivals is that participating venues curate their own shows. Acts applied in spring 2013 and the various theaters, galleries, cafes, etc. picked the shows that best fit their venues.

Tickets for Fringe shows vary per venue, typically ranging between $6 and $16 with dozens of events totally free of charge. (The headlining acts in Kodak Hall and the Spiegeltent have higher ticket prices; see details below.) Tickets are available online at

2013 FRINGE FESTIVAL

BANDALOOP

Good dance performances are often mesmerizing. When they’re done in slow motion on the side of skyscrapers, bridges, and billboards? Then they’re epic. That’s what makes San Francisco-based BANDALOOP one of the most captivating dance acts in the world. The performances are so unique, they almost seem like they couldn’t be real. But they are real, and they’re spectacular.

BANDALOOP made a big splash as one of the headliners of last year’s Rochester Fringe Festival, drawing more than 10,000 spectators to its performances. This year it will again take the stage (well, the side of a building) at HSBC Plaza (100 Chestnut St.) on Friday, September 20, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, September 21, at 4 p.m.

The best vantage place for spectators is Manhattan Square Park.

Watching BANDALOOP is free, though food and drink will be for sale in the park. On Friday night free entertainment will be available 5-9 p.m. as part of Friday on the Fringe. — BY TREVOR LEWIS 20 CITY SEPTEMBER 11-17, 2013

rochesterfringe com, or in person at each venue starting one hour before show time. Fringe Fanatic Passes, which grant admission to all Fringe shows (except performances at Kodak Hall and the Spiegeltent), cost $190 and can be purchased online or at the box Spiegeltent Box Office (located at 460 E. Main St. September 14-28).

For a full schedule of the festival, a list of venues, maps, and other information, see the official Fringe Festival guide included in this issue or visit rochesterfringe.com.

City Newspaper will offer extensive coverage of the 2013 Fringe Festival. Look for daily blogs during the run of the festival, with photos, reviews, and our critics’ picks for best of the fest, and make sure to pick up the Fringe Review in print in the September 25 issue.

HEADLINERS BANDALOOP • DAVE BARRY • MARC MARON • SPIEGELTENT

DAVE BARRY

Dave Barry has written more than 30 books, and at one point his newspaper column appeared in more than 500 papers nationwide. He won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for commentary (which he misplaced for several years), and his newest book, “Insane City,” has drawn rave reviews from critics and readers alike. On Friday, September 27, Rochester will get a chance to get the inside scoop from the man the New York Times declared the funniest man in America.

Barry takes the stage at 8 p.m. at the Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.), and tickets cost $20-$65. — BY TREVOR LEWIS

MARC MARON

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INTERVIEW | BY RON NETSKY

MARC

MARON

Comedian Marc Maron has sometimes had trouble fitting in over the course of his twodecade career. He’s had problems with drugs and alcohol, two failed marriages, and a radio show that got cancelled. But for a Fringe festival, Maron may be the perfect fit.

A few years ago, with no prospects on traditional media and few comedy gigs on his calendar, he started a podcast. All he needed was a Mac computer with GarageBand and a recording studio --- his Los Angeles garage.

He called it, appropriately enough, “WTF” (“What The Fuck”) and, from the outer margins of the media world, he built it into a successful business.

In the meantime his bookings increased, he landed a sitcom (“Maron,” which will return for a second season on the Independent Film Channel next year), and he recently published a memoir, “Attempting Normal.”

“WTF” has a simple format: 10 or 15 minutes of Maron’s monologue, which could be about a near-death experience or about going to the bathroom, and 45 minutes to an hour of conversation with his featured guest. Over the course of more than 400 podcasts he’s interviewed almost every comedian on the face of the earth

and a host of filmmakers, actors, writers, and rock stars.

The conversations go deep. Carlos Mencia defends himself against accusations of joke-stealing. Robin Williams explores a bout with alcoholism. Louis C.K. and Maron get into an emotional exchange about their past relationships and C.K.’s failed marriage that brings C.K. to tears.

A biography on Maron’s website quotes a fan who told him: “You’re like an Iggy Pop Woody Allen.” That about nails it. He’s cerebral and philosophical but in a raw, primal-scream kind of way. His book and podcast can make you literally laugh out loud or make you wonder about the paths you’ve chosen in life.

Maron and I crossed paths in the late 1970’s when, as a teenager, he attended Lighthouse Art and Music Camp in Pennsylvania. I was teaching art and he was studying guitar with my brother, Steve. He remembers it well.

“That had a profound effect on me the two years I went there,” said Maron. “It was a mind-blowing place for kids that were into the art thing. I don’t even know if a camp like that could exist now. Jesus, they let us smoke there. It was crazy.”

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Comedian Marc Maron, one of the headliners of the 2013 Rochester Fringe Festival, averages nearly 3 million downloads per month for his podcast, “WTF.” On it he has interviewed comedy legends as wide-ranging as Mel Brooks and Louis C.K. PHOTO BY LEIGH RIGHTON

When I reached Maron by phone we talked about how he got into comedy and some of the comedians he admired. But we mostly spoke about the psychological stresses of comedy and why it’s so important to him. The following is an edited version of our conversation.

CITY: What was your childhood like?

Marc Maron: My parents were very

young when they had me and they were

both from New Jersey. What was that old joke I had? They belonged to the first generation of Jews to move as far away from their parents as possible for reasons other than fleeing a country.

Somehow or another we ended up in New Mexico. We were dramatically displaced East Coast Jews growing up in Northern New Mexico. They were both fundamentally selfish people but I think they meant well.

Did any particular comedians inspire you when you were young?

I remember being profoundly affected by stand-ups on television, primarily watching people on “The Merv Griffin Show” or “The Mike Douglas Show” after school.

I remember seeing Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett, Jay Leno even, early on. The first season of “Saturday Night Live” was mind blowing to me. I thought that was the best thing in the world. I was 13 or 14 years old.

The first comedy show I went to, I believe, was George Carlin when I was in fourth or fifth grade. That was pretty monumental. And also seeing Richard Pryor’s “Live In Concert” movie when I was in high school was a pretty lifechanging experience.

You’ve called Pryor the greatest comedian of them all. Why?

Because he put his heart on the line. You felt like when he was doing comedy he was all in it and there was a lot of emotional risk there.

Some of the most legendary comedians — Pryor, Lenny Bruce, Freddie Prinze — had a pretty rough time. What is it about comedy that attracts so many troubled people?

It was pointed out to me that there are plenty of plumbers with drug problems. I think because celebrities are celebrities, the ones that go off the rails draw a lot of attention because people want to connect that trouble to that disposition. But I’m not sure in terms of proportions or percentages that there are not just as many drug addicts and alcoholics in other professions. So I think that struggle is organic to an individual.

I don’t know if it’s related to the business I’m in, but I think that creative people are overly sensitive and it’s a lot to shoulder sometimes. I don’t think people do it for relief; there’s an alcoholic or drugaddicted disposition.

But comics are there on the stage alone.

There’s not even a guitar between them and the audience. Do you see that as a vulnerable position or a powerful one?

It’s different for everybody. After a certain point the ability to get on stage, for most comics, is just part of the job. Eventually you lose that fear of taking the stage.

Once that goes away you’re freed up to do whatever you are going to do.

But being up there, that struggle to create new material, or finding the courage to explore different things -- that’s pretty rough stuff. The struggle that goes on when you don’t do new stuff, or you don’t take chances, or the self-criticism you put yourself through --- all of that stuff is part of it.

But the idea of being on stage, or getting on stage, after a certain point --- and it took

me a long time --- the fear goes away. And then you have the freedom that wasn’t there before, because you’re no longer pretending not to be afraid.

So what are you going to do up there?

That becomes the real battle. I think it’s different for all comics. Some comics offer a lot of themselves, some settle on the part of them that’s evolved into the performer they are. They’re professional about it. But the ones that really take emotional risks up there are rare, and they do seem a bit troubled.

You would put yourself in that category, wouldn’t you?

Yes. I’m not going to compare myself with anybody, but I do know from my own experience that getting up there, I want a relationship with the audience that will enable me to push myself. So I do have emotional expectations. It’s not spoken and only I can feel it, but I don’t want to be at odds with an audience. I want to connect, and it’s not just about getting laughs. It’s beyond the job.

On a recent podcast with Douglas Rushkoff, who writes about the dangers of the digital world, you coined the phrase, “Big data is watching you.” But that’s kind of ironic because I can’t think of a person who has willingly exposed more about his life than you have.

The inner life goes on beyond the time I spend doing monologues at the beginnings of those podcasts, or the hour or two I spend on stage. I still wake up with me and there’s some sort of private ongoing ebb and flow of emotion, fears, and everything else.

It’s still framed in a certain way. If you really look at the living my life and thinking my thoughts versus the time spent where I’m publicly talking about them, there’s still a lot of privacy there in my head.

On your podcast, you seem to inspire other comedians, like Louis C.K., Robin Williams, and Carlos Mencia, to reveal a great deal of pretty heavy personal stuff.

I don’t like the pathology framework, the idea of therapy. I just think they’re heartfelt conversations. I think the reason they happen is I feel very close to people fairly quickly based on very little emotional evidence.

I have an ability to become fairly deeply codependent with somebody I’ve made assumptions of in terms of who they are.

Also, I have an emotional need that persists to connect with somebody in a real way, to really feel like I’m in an authentic exchange. I think that that, coupled with talking to peers, and also having learned to be a more empathetic listener, is how those elements of the conversations evolve.

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“The 24-Hour Plays” I have

to admit, this sounds like my worst nightmare: being forced to conceive, write, memorize, and perform six short plays in 24 hours. (It took me longer than that to write this paragraph.) However, I do know there are stouter souls than I out there, and I look forward to seeing them grapple with this theatrical challenge. It does sound like “theater at its most raw and immediate,” as it is advertised — and it might be theater at its most fun, too. (Monday, September 23, 8 p.m., Writers & Books, $10) “The Goldberg Variations” Not to be confused with the play “33 Variations”; those variations are Beethoven’s. The background for this performance piece by John Borek and Rebecca Solomon is J.S. Bach’s great set of keyboard variations. Bach’s music, along with actors and dancers, is enlisted to tell an unsettling story: the collision (often disastrous) between German and Jewish cultures over three centuries. (Sunday,

September 22, 9 p.m., MuCCC, $8)

“Macbeth: Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair”

Along with all its other good work, Webster’s CDS Monarch sponsors the Monarch Players, an acting troupe of performers with and without disabilities. The group is not afraid to tackle the biggies: the Players’ presentation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” was a sell-out at last 24 CITY SEPTEMBER 11-17, 2013

I guess the group’s term “physical storytelling” sums it up as well as any other description.

PUSH Physical Theatre creates a sensation wherever it appears, and it is back again after great success at last year’s Fringe Festival. This year’s program of three shows includes the Rochester premiere of “Red Ball” (featuring PUSH + iPads), and a previous favorite, “Job,” which matches PUSH with a giant, spinning, steel wheel. (Saturday, September 21, 4 p.m. & Saturday, September 28, 7 and 10 p.m., Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music, $15)

year’s Fringe Festival, and it will be back this year, retelling another Shakespeare tragedy — the “Scottish Play” — through spoken word, dance, and music. (Saturday, September 28, 2 p.m., Blackfriars Theatre, $11)

“New Eyes” It got rave reviews in Los

Angeles, has toured America to equal acclaim, and now Israeli-American actress Yafit Josephson’s “New Eyes” will play the Rochester Fringe Festival, and later the JCC CenterStage. Josephson’s script ranges from hilarious to dead serious as she illustrates how her mandatory service in the Israeli army led to an acting career in the United States — one specializing in villains and terrorists. Based on clips, she gives a funny and moving one-woman performance, playing 18 characters from five different countries. (Saturday, September 28, 8 p.m., TheatreRocs Stage at Xerox Auditorium, $16)

“The Old Maid and The Thief” Gian Carlo Menotti’s one-act opera, a whimsical variation on the old farmer’s daughter and traveling salesman story, is not performed much anymore, though it was a staple of school and small companies for decades. Rochester Lyric Opera and RAPA offer the chance to catch an American classic with some very fresh young talent – area high-school teenagers, directed by local actor made good Kevin Green. (Saturday,

September 21, 10 p.m. & Monday, September 23, 7 p.m., RAPA’s East End Theatre, $10)

PUSH Physical Theatre presents PUSH Plus PUSH is not dance, not pantomime, but

it is definitely theater, and a very pure form of theater and a surprisingly profound experience.

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This year you’ve got double the time to take in all the dance, visual art, music, comedy, theater, and family shows being offered up in 28 venues in downtown Rochester.

“The Beauty of Rochester”

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by Ellina Chetverikova celebrates the lovely landscapes and unique architecture of our home. The intention is to remind residents to take in what might have become visual white noise, and to share the love with visitors to the city. Preview Chetverikova’s work at ellinachetverikova.blogspot. com. View the show for free during the following hours: Thursday, September 19, 5-10 p.m.; Friday, September 20, 5-11 p.m.; Saturday, September 21, noon-10 p.m.; Sunday, September 22, 1-8 p.m.; Monday, September 23-Thursday, September 26, 5-10 p.m.; Friday, September 27, 5-11 CONTINUES ON PAGE 26

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“reggae ballet.” This movement vocabulary has roots in Caribbean Modern techniques and urban popular world cultures, is distinctive in its lilting dance style, and expresses varied cultural concepts and themes. The show combines interactive

It’s an evening that promises to be magical, astounding, and a little bit naughty.

Monday-Friday, 6:30 a.m.midnight and SaturdaySunday, 7 a.m.-midnight.)

“Crocodile” Set in suburban upstate New York, “Crocodile” begins as a typical enough story, with 17-year-old Ernest, an awkward highschool senior who, while navigating the painful path to adulthood, falls hard for the new girl in town. Truly getting to know someone happens in stages, and soon enough, our hero learns that his new girlfriend, Sasha, has more complexities than she initially owns. Presented by Brain Crane, the screening is free to attend, and recommended for ages 17 and older. (Friday,

September 20, 9 p.m., Little Theatre 1, Free) “Emerging Artists” This show features new visual-art works by recent RIT alumni that was selected by Class of 2013 alumni Joseph Tarantelli and Ho Moon. View the work for free while stopping for a bite during the following hours: Thursday, September 19, 5-10 p.m.; Friday, September 20, 5-11 p.m.; Saturday, September 21, noon-10 p.m.; Sunday, September 22, 1-8 p.m.; Monday, September 23-Thursday, September 26, 5-10 p.m.; Friday, September 27, 5-11 p.m.; and Saturday, September 28, 12:30-11 p.m. (Little Theatre Cafe, Free)

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(Sunday, September 22, 5 p.m., MuCCC, $10)

“Sun Boxes” When Rochester Contemporary’s “State of the City: Street-ish” exhibition opened in August, one of the artists included in the show was represented only with a video to introduce his work, and a few of his silent “Sun Boxes” as props and a hint of what was to come. During Fringe Fest, 20 speakers, each operating independently and powered by the sun via solar panels, will be set up in the small park adjacent to Rochester Contemporary (137 East Ave.). Created

by Arkansas-based artist, Craig Colorusso, these “Sun Boxes” will emit ambient waves of B-flat notes, creating a solar-powered sonic landscape. The work will be activated

performance group, blending talented musicians and movers from Africa and the African diaspora, including Guinea, Ghana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ivory Coast, and the United States. Artistic director Kerfala “Fana” Bangoura was a long-time member of Guinea’s prestigious performance groups Les Ballets Africains and Les Percussions des Guinée, and was

Thursday-Saturday, September 26-28, noon8 p.m. Passersby and park visitors can enjoy the installation for free.

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Everybody Dancing If you

don’t like to just watch, Thomas Warfield’s “Everybody Dancing: The Interactivity of Creativity and Innovation” is an audience-participatory (optional) presentation and performance that examines the effect of everyday movement communication, gesture, and dance on our lives and relationships. In addition to Warfield, RIT assistant professor in NTID’s Cultural and Creative Studies Department, members of the RIT/NTID Dance Company will take part. Company members run the gamut from deaf to hearing-impaired to hearing.

The workshop/performance is a project of PeaceArt International Inc., a non-profit outreach organization Warfield started in 1990 to use the creative process and the arts to build community and foster world peace. (Saturday, September 28, 3:30 p.m., Little Theatre 1, Free) Futurpointe Dance “PsychoPomp & Pageantry” Futurpointe dancers train in

projection art and short theatrical vignettes into four acts choreographed by Guy Thorne, N’Jelle Gage, and Heather Roffe. Look to be transported as the choreographers act as artistic guides of the expressed ritual and customs in a nonnarrative format. And psychopomp? Those are traditionally angels, deities, Valkyries, or other creatures that help transport the spirit of the deceased to the next world.

(Saturday, September 21, 9 p.m. & Sunday, September 22, 1:30 and 9:30 p.m., Geva Theatre Nextstage, $16) “The Goldilocks Score and Other Dances” Red Dirt Dance is a

contemporary company formed by Karl Rogers. Originally from Oklahoma, Rogers is now an assistant professor of dance at Brockport. He has danced with the highly regarded contemporary group David Dorfman Dance; now Rogers choreographs and dances for his own company.

During Fringe it will be presenting “The Goldilocks Score” in a split bill of works by Rogers and Paul Matteson.

Rogers’ world premiere “We Too Cling” imagines a conversation between two 20th century artists, the playwright Tennessee Williams and the pop-art painter David Hockney. Matteson, also a Dorfman

dancer, gives us “Take it OVER,” his newest work. The production is recommended for mature audiences only. (Thursday, September 19, 6 p.m. & Friday, September 20, 6 p.m., Geva Theatre Nextstage, $16) Mariah Maloney Dance Mariah Maloney brings a wealth of rich experience to the Rochester dance scene.

For almost 10 years she was a principal dancer with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, a company at the forefront of the postmodern dance movement.

Her company, Mariah Maloney Dance, performed at the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival last summer.

Maloney’s new piece, “LIGHT,” was partially inspired by a sparkler dance her father performed for her as a young child, when they were living in an Alaskan cabin with no electricity. Her dancers wear LED costumes, so we should be in for some stunning visuals.

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September 19, 8 p.m. & Sunday, September 22, 6:30 p.m., TheatreROCS Stage at Xerox Auditorium, $12) “Merged: A Dance Concert” You can also catch the sensual choreography of the ambitious Heather Roffe in this collaboration with Heather Roffe Dance and James Hansen Assemblage Dance.

Hansen performed with both modern and ballet companies for 15 years before forming his own widely touring company.

His choreography has been produced by such prestigious dance festivals as Jacob’s Pillow. Hansen will present his newest piece, “Stag Line,” which uses a sound design he created from 1960’s sitcom dialogue, Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, and more. Roffe premieres a piece that deals with the personal and social perspectives of fear. (Wednesday, September

25, 6 p.m. & Friday, September 27, 5:30 p.m. & Saturday, September 28, noon, Geva Theatre Nextstage, $16) “Transient Being” When I learned that Alaina Olivieri, a Rochesterian performing artist and elegant dancer, was performing a piece in which she interacts with liquid paint, I knew I needed to recommend it. The work was created at the artistic direction of Eran David P. Hanlon in collaboration with Olivieri, and by visual artist Joseph Tarantelli, with the assistance of Asuka Hiraoka. Hanlon choreographed Olivieri’s movement to relate to the projected video, his documentary “FALL WINTER SPRING,” which shows the creation of the painting which shares the same name. Hanlon describes “Transient Being” as a metaphor for the inextricable simultaneity of creation and destruction.

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“The 39 Steps” Before the

advent of the TV, the boob tube, the one-eye babysitter, folks would gather around the radio for broadcast entertainment.

Local theater group Screen Plays tackles Hitchcock’s 1935 spy thriller “The 39 Steps” with vintage equipment and foley stage to give the audience a rare, behind-the-scenes look at radio in its golden era. Note that Geva Theatre Center will be doing a satirical take on the play as part of its 2013-14 season. (Saturday, September 21, 2

U.S. Oh! Show The

brazen beauties who bump ‘n’ grind in Deadly Dames Burlesque are sure to put the tease in striptease and the tits in titillating. Ooo la got-damn-la! Dig it way down as gals like B.B. Blues, Big Bertha Boleyn, Eva Scarafore, Onyx Blaze, and Sybil Disobedience peal and squeal for the audiences’ joyous appeal. This show’s theme is centered around our troops, with a USO-style nod to patriotic cabaret. Come on down and wave the flag. Or better yet, you can salute.

(Friday, September 27, 10 p.m., MuCCC, $10)

p.m., George Eastman House Curtis Theatre, Free) Dead Metaphor Cabaret Ask yourself, which came first: The lyric or the poem, or the lyrical poem? Here to shed a folksy, artsy, bluesy, cabaret (we’re seeing this word a lot in this Fringe Fest, aren’t we?) light on the conundrum are Curt and Nani Nehring Bliss. The duo’s original exploration may not make the difference any clearer, but in this debate, everyone is right. (Thursday,

(Thursday, September 19-Saturday, September 28, 8 p.m., except Friday, September 20, 9 p.m.

Family-friendly matinees held both Saturdays of the fest and Sunday, September 22, at 2 p.m., Spiegeltent, $31 or $180 for VIP booth)

September 26, 8 p.m. & Saturday, September 28, 4 p.m., Writers & Books, $8) Hiroya Tsukamoto A Japanese ex-pat living in Gotham, Hiroya Tsukamoto has bopped with his group at joints all over, from his native land to the States, including the prestigious Blue Note in NYC. Tsukamoto is an innovative guitarist who fuses folk, jazz, and world music. But hey, ain’t it all world music? Get a listen at hiroyatsukamoto.com. (Thursday, September

SpeakFathom: A Language-Musical Cabaret Without getting too creepy,

SpeakFathom skirts a sort of eerie cabaret netherworld couched in the flexibility of language and its sound as music, as opposed to mere dialogue. Performed by F’loom, Speakfathom is described it as a tour of the underbelly of psycholinguistic reality. Uhhuh. To help get your head around that, check out floom.com. (Saturday, September 21, 6 p.m. & Sunday, September 22, 5 p.m., Writers & Books, $11)

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Friday, September 27, 11 p.m., RAPA’s East End Theatre, $8.)

T H E M A G I C C RY S TA L

A new addition to this year’s Fringe Festival, the Magic Crystal Spiegeltent is an antique-style Belgian “magic mirror tent” that will be set up at the corner of East Main Street and Gibbs Street. But it’s not a house of mirrors. This is a performance venue, and the Magic Crystal will be holding a variety of events for all ages throughout this year’s festival.

Cirque du Fringe, a Cirque du Soleil-type show created exclusively

for Rochester, will have performances Thursday, September 19, through Saturday, September 28; tickets cost $31. The other big draw, Silent Disco, is a dance event where you listen to the music through headphones instead of over speakers. The Disco will take place Saturday, September 21, Friday, September 27, and Saturday, September 28, 10 p.m.-midnight; tickets cost $5-$7.

If that wasn’t enough, the Spiegelgarden, an outdoor beer and wine lounge adjacent to the Spiegeltent, opens Thursday, September 19, and it will hold several events of its own. The Pedestrian Drive-In, a moviegoing experience similar to the Silent Disco, will shows three classic movies. On Sunday, September 22, catch “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (the good version, starring Gene Wilder); on Tuesday, September 24, see “The Big Lebowski”; and on Thursday, September 26, it’s “The Breakfast Club.” All films start at 7:30 p.m.

Then on Wednesday, September 25, at 7:30 p.m. put your arts and culture knowledge to the test with TriviaCity: An Arts & Culture Quiz put on by the fine folks at City Newspaper. This free event will include questions based on the arts, pop culture, and Rochester, and prizes will be awarded to the top teams.

Dupre on Krol The For information on all of the Spiegeltent events check rochesterfringe.com.

Rochester International — BY TREVOR LEWIS — Jazz Festival may be over, but that doesn’t mean you have to suffer through the symptoms of withdrawal.

Mark Gindick brings his quirky one-man There are plenty of great live jazz performances show “Wing-Man” to the Rochester Fringe. lined up for Fringe, including Dupre On Krol.

In the tradition of Charlie Chaplin and the Featuring Eastman School of Music students Marx Brothers, the production is a silent Jacob Dupre (piano), Jeffrey Krol (drums), comedy about big ideas as Gindick examines and Matthew Krol (bass), the jazz trio will topics ranging from social media to love in class up your night with their unique take on the modern age, all without uttering a single some classic tunes from the great American word. (Thursday, September 26, 9:30 p.m.; songbook. (Saturday, September 21, 8:30 p.m.,

26, 8 p.m., Bernunzio Uptown Music, $9) Low Standards Here’s a fo’ sho’ show that may need a shoe horn. The Fairport-based Low Standards has actually raised its standards and plugged itself into a performance cocktail of comedy, cabaret, and a splash of va-vavoom a la Big Apple Burlesque bombshell, Candy Janes. I’m gonna go twice. Check reverbnation.com/lowstandardsfairportny for more info. (Wednesday, September 25, 9 p.m. &

Fringe. There’s no more immediate way to get back in touch with your childlike sense of wonder than a circus aerial and acrobatics show. But when you meld that to the more adult entertainments of cabaret and burlesque, it’s bound to make for an unforgettable experience.

The show will deliver a lineup of 11 national acts, showing off their skills and performing an array of breathtaking feats. Held in the already glitzy Magic Crystal Spiegeltent, there will be no shortage of good old-fashioned razzle dazzle on display. It’s an evening that promises to be magical, astounding, and a little bit naughty.

“All Your Questions Answered”

The vague description for this show -- “an evening of short, silly, subversive, satirical plays, and charming musical numbers” -- makes it sound innocuous enough. But when that material is springing from the mind of Greg Kotis (a two-time Tony Award-winner for the acerbic musical “Urinetown”), it promises to be anything but. I’m not entirely sure what to expect, and truthfully, that makes it all the more exciting.

(Thursday, September 19, 9 p.m.; Saturday, September 21, 7 p.m.; Sunday, September 22, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, September 28, 3 & 8:30 p.m.; Geva Theatre Nextstage, $16) Cirque du Fringe I love a good spectacle, so naturally I’m excited about Cirque du

Java’s Café; Friday, September 27, 5:15 p.m., Gibbs Street Main Stage, Free)

Friday, September 27, 7 p.m.; Saturday, September 28, 1:30 & 7 p.m., Geva Theatre Nextstage, $16)

“Nosferatu Bemshi!” One of the wackier-sounding shows on the Fringe schedule, “Nosferatu Bemshi!” combines a screening of the silent 1922 vampire film “Nosferatu,” about the amorous intentions of fiendish bloodsucker Count Orlok, with an accompanying live alternate voice-over from performers David Esposito and G. E. Schwartz featuring poetry, flash fiction, and a “soundscape” of some sort. The show is sure to be one of the more unusual experiences Fringe has to offer. (Friday,

“Zero Gravity, Zero Hope: An Alien Horror Show” I’ve found that improv shows always

September 27, 10 p.m., Writers & Books, $6) “Wing-Man” Gifted physical comedian

and professional clown (literally, he was a popular member of the Big Apple Circus)

seem to have a much higher success rate when they’re focused around a specific theme, and this has a great one: extraterrestrial suspense films à la “Alien,” “Pitch Black,” or “The Thing.” Beginning with the familiar premise of a spaceship crew attempting to survive their encounter with a bloodthirsty extraterrestrial being, this show, from Geva Comedy Improv, is sure to take off (no pun intended) in some wild and wacky directions.

(Friday, September 20, 10:30 p.m.; Saturday, September 21, 10:30 p.m.; Friday, September 27, 10:30 p.m.; Saturday, September 28, 10:30 p.m., Geva Theater Nextstage, $16)

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MARC MARON CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23

Is there any separation between life and art for comedians?

Yes, some people are very separated. I just find that comedians and artists in general, whether they’re songwriters, musicians, comedians -not necessarily actors, but certainly the people that decide their own destiny in terms of their creativity -- they do a lot of thinking about a lot of things because that’s their job. They run the world through their perceptions in order to express themselves. So there are very few things that they can’t speak to.

On a recent show you said: “There’s a price to pay using your life for your art.”

Yes, there is. There are other people involved in your life and you are sharing your perception and theirs might be different.

You have a conflict as to what really happened. What is a betrayal emotionally?

What is your life and what is their privacy?

These are discussions and negotiations you have with yourself and with those people.

As a result of what you wrote in your book, you said on a recent podcast that

your father is not talking to you.

He started e-mailing me last week. I knew eventually the repercussions would not be as bad as he thought they would be.

You recently interviewed two of the most revered comedians alive, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks. Was there anything particularly interesting to you about them?

It’s pretty astounding. Whatever my slice of show business is, I am in show business and I have a weird sensitivity to both sides of show business. I often find when I’m doing a “WTF” live and I’m sitting next to somebody who’s talking, and there’s a huge audience there, I am just looking at this guy talking and I hear an audience laughing uproariously. There’s a magic to it, but I’m sitting there and there’s a constant sort of awareness of: that’s just a guy talking next to me, and look what all these hundreds of people are reacting to.

So when I interview people that are amazing geniuses and therefore have had long careers, I find that it’s overwhelming initially.

But when you sit down with them you realize it’s just a guy, a guy who’s done some amazing things, but we’re just people here.

It’s always an amazing thing to me, the difference between the work and the

Comedy gave me my voice, but it also provided me with a lifelong struggle to honor that voice. person. But it was definitely an honor to interview those guys.

In your talk with Brooks, you discussed the Jewish tradition in comedy. Do you personally connect with that?

Of course, those are my role models. The culture of being Jewish, of being American Jewish specifically, and we’re also subject to these stereotypes that you kind of grow up with. There’s a certain reality to the American Jewish experience, to the artists and heroes who we have, to the weird idiosyncrasies that we all share. So it feels very ingrained in me. I don’t know if I got it from my family or from Woody Allen movies or Mel Brooks movies. It’s hard to

know where it comes from but there’s an understanding of it.

Brooks was impressed with you and suggested a late-night talk show. Is that a goal?

I’d certainly like to try it. I like talking to people and I’d like to see if it could work.

The only comedian to walk off your podcast was Gallagher, who got upset when you brought up homophobic remarks he made.

Is anything off limits for comics?

I wasn’t telling him not to do something, I was just questioning the integrity of his intention. It’s a personal decision; everybody has to figure out their own limits.

There’s nothing off limits in general, and that’s probably best for everyone in terms of freedom of speech and to keep creativity and activism alive.

In your book you wrote: “Comedy saved my life but also destroyed it.” What did you mean by that?

Comedy gave me my voice, but it also provided me with a lifelong struggle to honor that voice.

One last thing: you take in feral cats. Is there some identification there?

I just like that you’ve got to earn their love, and even that seems tenuous. I like the excitement of that kind of relationship. 

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