Want to see the wonkiest, craziest, silliest, most ridiculous show at the 2008 MN Fringe?  Their next show is Thursday at 10pm.  Playwrights Dylan Frederick and Anders Nerheim serve up a giant helping of absurdism while sweet Kiana Adams ties a bib around your neck and calls over Amy Stockhaus to cram the entire thing down your throat with her gigantic spoon of funny.  The play starts to lose just the slightest bit of steam toward the end, but you won’t care.  It’s such a crazy-random show, you’ll actually welcome that slow-down so you can catch your breath.  And the fact that these are high school kids should provide hope to any old, jaded theatre folks out there who are currently mourning the death of this art form.  Audish proves that there is, indeed, a next generation of creative theatre minds…and they hate auditions.

Joseph Scrimshaw teams up with his wife, Sara Stevenson Scrimshaw, to tell the story of a man who is held captive by a “whisky faerie”.  As nice as this idea sounds, the show drags.  Both Scrimshaws are good performers, but that fact matters very little when the average human body is only able to ingest about 30 minutes of the stance genre (story/dance).  ZING!  On the plus side, the show is not half as bad as this stupid-ass review.  I need more sleep.

Walking Shadow Theatre Company has quickly become the best small theatre company in the Twin Cities.  So it comes as no surprise to me that they decided to throw Shakespeare and zombies against the wall and come up with another smash hit.  As fine as most of the performers are, they are all upstaged by the script.  John Heimbuch pens an absolute beauty with this one; tossing out some fun for the hard-core zombie fan, and then spinning around to verbally titty twist the 22-year-old, currently studying for that motherfucking Theatre History final.  As always, Amie Rummenie’s direction is like butter, David Pisa gets the tech things in order and eats flesh — and just like that, this  production probably becomes the best-selling show at the 2008 MN Fringe.  Don’t be the only re-re in town who misses this show.