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News Last Chance To Help San Fran Fringe: Benefit Sixth of Streetcar Ends Aug. 25 San Francisco Fringe Festival, in an effort to raise money for the upcoming Fest, has been serving Bay Area audiences A Sixth of Streetcar. The final performance is Aug. 25 at the EXIT Theatre. This unique collaboration pits six directors against six ten-minute sections of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.

San Francisco Fringe Festival, in an effort to raise money for the upcoming Fest, has been serving Bay Area audiences A Sixth of Streetcar. The final performance is Aug. 25 at the EXIT Theatre. This unique collaboration pits six directors against six ten-minute sections of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.

The directors are Unconditional Theatre's John Warren, Art Street Theatre's Mark Jackson, Women In Time's Allison Tassie, Crowded Fire's Rebecca Novick and EXIT Theatre's Jason Ries and Meredith Eldred. Every ten minutes, the director and cast changes, creating a very different one hour Streetcar.

Tickets to A Sixth of Streetcar are $20. The EXIT Theatre is located at 156 Eddy Street. For reservations, call (415) 673-3847.

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For ten years, the San Francisco Fringe Festival has brought such comic gems as Antonio Sacre's My Penis -- In and Out of Trouble and Doctor Emile's Theatre Tremendo's It Came From Beneath the Kilt!!! to the City by the Bay. The Festival, celebrating its decitennial, brings more of the same Sept. 6-16 with such fancifully titled fare as Liebe Wetzel's Brace Yourself It's Polio and Sara DeWitt's The Last Smoker in Berkeley. An international and national Fringe Festival, San Francisco plays host to companies from around the world and around the States. Among the foreign entries are England's Fleshpuppets with Charlie's Angel, Spinning Wheel's Farewell to the Flesh and Yarn Productions adaptation of Heart of Darkness as well as Canada's Wee Theatre performing By a Thread. Featured Americans include Texas' Gypsy Baby with Loose Woman, Alaska's Barbara Brown in A Little Bit Pregnant and New York's 3 Noses Theater Company with The Macy's Account and Elisa DeCarlo in Toasted.

The Bay Area's own Stark Ravens Historical Players will present Alice in Wonderland, while Kaliyuga Arts stages The Pilgrim Project and Theatre Au Naturel, What Big Teeth You Have! or Little Red Bites Back.

The Bring-Your-Own-Venue shows, created for those pieces whose length or technical requirements would not allow their involvement in the Fringe, are Unconditional Theatre's outdoor staging of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, Ghost Town's sci-fi love story set underwater The Queen's Rain and Mark Kenward's The Yoga of Moby Dick.

Tickets are $8. All Fringe theatres are located in downtown San Francisco. For reservations, call (415) 931-1094. The San Francisco Fringe is on the web at http://www.sffringe.org.

— By Christine Ehren

 
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