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Running Time: 60 Minutes Venue: Media Bridges Wed, 06/02/2010 - 08:45 Fri, 06/04/2010 - 09:00 Sat, 06/05/2010 - 02:00 Mon, 06/07/2010 - 09:00 Tue, 06/08/2010 - 07:00 |
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Multiple award-winning English comedian arrives at last!
From Jimmy Hogg
Show Description: Fringe veteran Jimmy Hogg arrives in Cincinnati to discuss his life of petty crime. Physical, fast-paced hilarious storytelling with a car crash and plenty of tangents. “Hold onto the arms of your seat: Hogg will take you spinning.” –Orlando Sentinel “His characterizations are spot on, and while the piece jumps from story to story-centering on a traumatic night out that ends with the threat of prison looming over the young narrator's head-Hogg juggles them like a trained master with three chainsaws and a flaming baton in the air.” -City Pages, Minnesota. “Managing to fit so many entertaining characters, hilarious anecdotes, and witty pop-culture references into 60 minutes is a difficult test of endurance, a test Hogg passes with flying colours.” ***** (5 out of 5) Eye Magazine, Toronto. " Dickens would love this guy." –Orlando Sentinel. Best of Fringe- Victoria 2009, Toronto 2007, Minnesota 2007 & 2006, San Francisco 2006
Most Fringy Thing: It's a chance for the people of Cincinnati to see a well-established Fringe circuit veteran and international touring artist who speaks in an English accent for a full hour and guarantees laughter during his show.
Artist/Company Bio: Jimmy Hogg is an actor, writer, director and comedian from England. He has been involved in more than fifty theatre productions and toured a dozen countries. He studied clown, Lecoq and physical theatre in Barcelona, Commedia dell'Arte in France and Drama and Theatre Arts in London. He has spent the last four years touring North America with his outstandingly successful solo shows.
Hails from: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Previous Fringes: Toronto Fringe (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010), Minnesota Fringe (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010), Orlando Fringe (2007, 2008, 2009), Boulder Fringe (2006, 2008, 2009), Montreal Fringe (2009), Ottawa Fringe (2009), Victoria Fringe (2009), Winnipeg Fringe (2008), Vancouver Fringe (2008, 2010), and San Francisco (2006).
Reviews
TheConveyor Review: A Brief History of Petty Crime
Jimmy Hogg's one man show A Brief History of Petty Crime is a fast paced tale of a troubled youth and his best friend trying to fit into society, but shop lifting along the way. Hogg's Karma is fucked. He is going to Hell. Well, not really, but he made mistakes as a kid, more than most people did, and is sharing the struggles he had in finding a way to start and make it in life.
This is a classic One-Person Fringe show, but it stands out with well written humor, a reserved charm, and the honesty Hogg shares with every anecdote. Of the many of this style of show that have come through the Cincinnati Fringe Festival over the last 7 years, this ranks among best. It is fresh. It moves fast, but will slow down when it needs to be slower. Hogg was able to play to the audience. His show is flexible in that way and that adds to the experience. It gives you something different, not set in stone. He wants to share his story, but wants you to have fun doing it.
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rating systems:
1=Disappointed 2=Enjoyed 3=Recommend 4=Encore
Fringe rating
FRINGY=what you only expect to see at a Fringe festival
FRINGIER=even at a Fringe festival you think- wow, that
was different
FRINGIEST=pushes the boundaries of what you ever see anywhere
A BRIEF HISTORY OF PETTY CRIME Randy 3.5 * Suzana 3 * * FRINGY *
I love a good story. Even more fun is a series of good stories that support and
feed one another though it is not always obvious how or when. Even better is
funny. And beyond that are break outs of audience interaction that may or may
not be spontaneous, but sure seem to break down the distance between us and
the artist. Jimmy Hogg does all this, and you just have to take his word for it
that it is about petty crime. That is why I will see it again, though at another Fringe.
I couldn't take it all in on the first go, and I figure I'll end up laughing just as much
the second time.
Enquirer Review: 'Petty Crime' is wacky and fun
by Jackie Demaline
There's a delightful hour to be spent with Jimmy Hogg on his road trippy monologue "A Brief History of Petty Crime," which performs through Tuesday at Media Bridges. "Petty Crime" is an easy to recommend entry in Cincinnati's Fringe Festival.
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CityBeat Review
by Julie York Coppens
Critic's Pick
A pack of gum, a can of grapefruit juice, a pair of baby booties hand-knitted by Granny — these are the modest spoils of Jimmy Hogg’s A Brief History of Petty Crime, one of four Cincy Fringe solo shows assigned to the small platform stage at Media Bridges. The unassuming title, no-frills setting and even the rumbling Race Street traffic all serve Hogg well: At one moment on Wednesday’s opening night, a clunker passed just as Hogg spoke of his first illicit joyrides in his dad’s car.
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by Julie York Coppens
Mostly, Jimmy Hogg blames his dad. “He was kind of a cheapskate. He’d sneak into the circus or the zoo if he could get away with it,” says Hogg, explaining how a nice lad from southwest England became a juvenile delinquent.
A Brief History of Petty Crime tells the whole sad tale and as funny as it is — he's snatched Best of Fringe in Toronto, San Francisco and elsewhere — the solo artist has serious ideas about crime’s root causes, chiefly, unemployment and inequality. “No one wants to be a criminal,” insists Hogg, who’s grateful he can now make an honest living as … an actor.