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A psychological thriller that will make you laugh, cry, and squirm in your seat!
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Ybor City is hosting the first annual Tampa Fringe Festival (TiFf) in May. Over a four-day period, 112 performers will appear in 29 different shows totaling 87 performances in 6 different venues.
Why is the psychological thriller DARK VANILLA JUNGLE the one you can’t miss?
Look at its track record: director Staci Sabarsky’s production of Philip Ridley’s dark masterpiece earned four- and five-star reviews in its 2015 North Carolina premiere and a 2016 revival at the Camden Fringe Festival in London. It comes to Tampa as the first production of an innovative, provocative new theater company: Innovocative Theatre.
Londoncitynights.com’s four-star review celebrated Dark Vanilla Jungle’s “gripping performance tapestry” in “an ambitious, beautifully performed and smartly directed gem of a production” at the Camden Fringe. In his five-star review for INDY Week, critic Byron Woods called the show “the most compelling local production I’ve seen in quite some time. Drop everything; this you’ve got to see.”
Andrea, the central character in this riveting one-person show, is a young London girl who wants to love and be loved in return. But, as the Londoncitynights.com review explains, “life can't stop kicking her in the teeth: her father disappeared soon after she was born, leaving her to be raised by her [negligent] Mum, who callously and suddenly disappears upon his return. Abandoned in a grotty flat, she tiptoes along the borders of mental illness until she's 'rescued' by her never-before-seen grandmother.”
Things go from bad to worse when she meets an attractive older man who gives her the love and attention she desperately wants, but for all the wrong reasons. “As we watch with concern and increasing horror,” notes the INDY Week review, “we can see an elastic young mind gradually rewiring itself in response to the damage it’s known. As it does, something dark and very hungry blossoms in a bright young girl.”
Ridley takes audiences on the ride of their life as Andrea reveals and relives key mome
Why is the psychological thriller DARK VANILLA JUNGLE the one you can’t miss?
Look at its track record: director Staci Sabarsky’s production of Philip Ridley’s dark masterpiece earned four- and five-star reviews in its 2015 North Carolina premiere and a 2016 revival at the Camden Fringe Festival in London. It comes to Tampa as the first production of an innovative, provocative new theater company: Innovocative Theatre.
Londoncitynights.com’s four-star review celebrated Dark Vanilla Jungle’s “gripping performance tapestry” in “an ambitious, beautifully performed and smartly directed gem of a production” at the Camden Fringe. In his five-star review for INDY Week, critic Byron Woods called the show “the most compelling local production I’ve seen in quite some time. Drop everything; this you’ve got to see.”
Andrea, the central character in this riveting one-person show, is a young London girl who wants to love and be loved in return. But, as the Londoncitynights.com review explains, “life can't stop kicking her in the teeth: her father disappeared soon after she was born, leaving her to be raised by her [negligent] Mum, who callously and suddenly disappears upon his return. Abandoned in a grotty flat, she tiptoes along the borders of mental illness until she's 'rescued' by her never-before-seen grandmother.”
Things go from bad to worse when she meets an attractive older man who gives her the love and attention she desperately wants, but for all the wrong reasons. “As we watch with concern and increasing horror,” notes the INDY Week review, “we can see an elastic young mind gradually rewiring itself in response to the damage it’s known. As it does, something dark and very hungry blossoms in a bright young girl.”
Ridley takes audiences on the ride of their life as Andrea reveals and relives key mome
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