LA Weekly Says “GO!” to “A Mess of Things” at the Hollywood Fringe Festival June 18,22,23
June 17, 2011FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6/17
Adam Tinkle has tried on a bunch of tags for his new intermedia performance piece, “A Mess of Things,” playing 6/18-6/23 at the second annual Hollywood Fringe Festival. He’s called it a documentary music-play, a videographically illuminated radio opera, a looping folk fable of memory, repetition and hoarding. A solo performance featuring audio recordings, live music on saxophone and prepared guitar, songs, text and video, the piece blends the influence of multimedia opera pioneers like Laurie Anderson, sound collagers like the Books and Ira Glass’ This American Life.
LA Weekly drama critic Steven Leigh Morris’ feature article raves, “Among the show’s many virtues was that rarest of qualities we seek, in the theater and in life — authenticity. A man in an undecorated room, telling his truth without fakery or deceit. How often do you find that?”...
"A Mess of Things" brings unique fusion of radio documentary with live music to Hollywood's Fringe Central
June 07, 2011Press Contact:
Adam Tinkle, 207-653-7827, [email protected]
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MEDIA ALERT FOR THEATRE EDITORS, REVIEWERS, AND CALENDAR LISTINGS June 1, 2011
Composer and interdisciplinary artist Adam Tinkle will perform his new documentary music-play “A Mess of Things” four times this month at the Hollywood’s Artworks Theater as part of the Los Angeles Fringe Theater Festival. “A Mess of Things” is a bold, philosophical, funny, and ultimately tragic portrait of an eccentric inventor who keeps the remnants of his entire life’s work in storage units, and will challenge the way you think about the objects that fill our...
