Forward, then back

This festival, at four years of age, is still a baby by any measure, but I guess it's been around long enough to establish some traditions, anyhow.

I had the pleasure of seeing the performances of two of the more established artists from the Infringement fold this afternoon.

First, "Byrdbrain" a one man play produced/directed/acted by Scott Andrew Kurchak at Rust Belt Books. This was an engaging one act piece about an Ontario high school English teacher's battle with himself while locked in a classroom closet over a holiday weekend. Tight/unflawed production/execution.

Then, "Box" from TheatreFiguren (Michelle Costa) another of her accessible but moving puppet theatre presentations. This was staged at the Crane library. Mostly free of dialogue, her poetic figure action was supported by various bits of accordion music. Delightful.

Both performers have a clear following; these were two of the best attended performances of the festival.

Summary of Thursday's & Friday's events from this audience member will have to wait. Seems like today I'm viewing things from fellow Infringement organizers all day. Headed down shortly to see Jason Klinger's "Too Much" later Ronawanda's "Shakespeare in the Parking Space" and MUCH later, Kurt Schneiderman's "And they put handcuffs on the flowers....".