DC's Capital Fringe Festival features three of its most popular performers 11/11-22

November 6, 7:22 PMDC Art Travel ExaminerMarsha Dubrow

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Washington's Capital Fringe Festival is having a mini-encore, Fall Fringe, November 11-22  with 30 performances of three of its most popular performers.

"Fall Fringe features three favorite former Fringe performers, donating their time and ticket proceeds to the future of Fringe," the fest trumpets with alliterative enthusiasm.

And the faves are:

• "The Terrorism of Everyday Life", written and performed by Ed Hamell

"The Terrorism of Everyday Life" won not only the 2009 Capital Fringe Directors' Award, but also the famed Edinburgh Festival Fringe's Herald Angel Award.  Ed Hamell is "...a one-man punk band -- and by punk we mean (mostly) loud, fast music informed by politics, passion, energy and intelligence, played by a guy with a sharp tongue and a wicked sense of humor," according to Righteous Babe Records.

• "Fool for A Client", written and performed by Mark Whitney

"The Washington Post" dubbed him "the terrific Mark Whitney", and he also won the 2008 Fringe's Best Solo Performer. The "Fool" had a ten-year battle with the law, which led to a stint in a federal slammer. 

• "Splitting the Difference", written and performed by Kelly Bond

Bond, a DC choreographer, based her new work on a concept of artist Hans Bellmer -- best known for his erotic dolls -- “The body is like a sentence that invites us to reimagine it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through an endless series of anagrams.”

As Bellmer and Bond know, don't we all, an anagram is a word or phrase created by rearranging the letters of that word or phrase. For example: an anagram of "fringe" is "finger".

Performances are at “Fort Fringe” – The Shop, 607 New York Avenue, NW, in DC. Tickets are $15-$20 per show. A three-show pass is $30. Tickets can be purchased at the Fringe website http://www.capfringe.org/happening.html and at 866-811-4111.