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Running Time: 55 minutes Venue: Hanke 2 Thu, 06/02/2011 - 08:30 Sat, 06/04/2011 - 09:15 Wed, 06/08/2011 - 08:15 Fri, 06/10/2011 - 07:00 Sat, 06/11/2011 - 08:00 |
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Biting the hand that feeds, one finger at a time.
From: Matt Johnson and Artistic Compatriots
Most Fringy Thing: This thing will be completely different every night, there is no script, but plenty of rhyme although iffy on the reason. We have a plan but like sausage and democracy you'd be better off not knowing how its made. Truly alive and honestly dangerous this promises to be the Fringiest of Fringe shows. Love it or hate it you will never forget it. Tooth and 'Nuckle (I ate the fucking K)
Brief Description: Part meditation. Part freak out. All righteous theatrical indignation. This improvised treatise is aimed at the intersection of the tooth and the knuckle; when the feeding hand of benevolence spreads its flesh to the mongrel tooth of freedom. Interdisciplinary and insane with a rotating cast this show is never even remotely the same. Make the choice: Tooth or 'Nuckle? Either way you'll have blood on your hands.
Artist/Company Biography: Matt is thankful for whomever showed up tonight to risk their reputation, their career, and quite possibly their life by "performing" in this performance of Tooth and 'Nuckle. Matt has written, performed, directed, and designed for many Cincinnati theaters but mostly for Cincinnati Shakespeare Company where he was the Associate Artistic Director and an ensemble member for nine seasons.
Previous Fringes: Cincy Fringe 2003 (You Don't Exist to Me)
From: Newport, KY
Critics' Reviews
Review: CityBeat
by Nicholas Korn
"Matt Johnson’s solo improvisational piece, Tooth and ’Nuckle, at the very-out-of-the-way and very cool Hanke 2 space (1128 Main St.), might not be for the faint of heart, even by Fringe standards. The setup is pretty straightforward. A bare stage sports a phalanx of masks and puppets fashioned out of grocery bags, and audience members are invited make a selection for Johnson to use as starting points for off-the-cuff scenes and soliloquies."
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Review: The Conveyor
Expectations have been a recurring theme for me in my reviews this year. When I read that Matt Johnson was doing a show this year, I had a set of expectations. I've seen his work before. In Tooth and 'Nuckle I got the Matt Johnson I was expecting. He is on the edge at all times, pushing you, sometimes with a very pointy stick. If you go to Fringe festivals and expect that everything is going to make sense, then I think you are missing out. We need bizarre shows, with vagina puppets made from grocery bags. We need raunchy sex crazed stuffed animals manipulated by Johnson as a puppet that then mock audience members for not wearing the right color clothing (pink for girls, blue for boys).
For the full article check it out on theconveyor.com.
Review: Behind The Curtain Cincinnati
I’m not sure how to react to TOOTH AND ‘NUCKLE. And I have the sneaking suspicion that that is exactly the reaction Matt Johnson wants from his audiences. The show seem to have been birthed from too much free time spent alone with his young children’s toys and his strangely unique sense of humor. The result is sometimes dark, sometimes uncomfortable and sometimes just plain weird. There is also some interesting commentary and a few good laughs.
Reviews
Tooth & 'Nuckle
I do not know yet what will be best of Fringe, by I am sure I know my worst of Fringe. When I think of this show, the words that come to mind are vapid, pretentious, formless, meandering, self-indulgent, juvenile, boring, callow and twaddle.
Fringiest Show yet this year!
Again, my rating system (and I am sticking to it.)
1*= Sorry I saw it; 2*= Glad I saw it; 3*= Recommend it;
4*= Would see it again
Last year I added the adjectives-
Fringy (solid Fringe wierdness/entertainment),
Fringier (unusual even in a Fringe context), and
Fringiest (weird in any context)
Tooth and 'Nuckle Fringiest
Suzana 3* Randy 2.5* Ross 2.5* Klara 2*
This may well be the Fringiest show this year. The
ratings are perhaps artificially low due to some
technical difficulties that had the background voice/music
track overwhelm the on stage patter. Even with that, we
enjoyed ourselves. A description is tough, since it is
a totally improvised show, and it is hard to guess how the
next show might go. Here is what we got: loud background
of sound, music, and rumbling voice (God?), a man on stage
who begins with a paper bag mask and proceeds to
improvise stories prompted by that rumbling voice and
paper bags of props. Will the next show(s) have even
the same voice behind the scenes and bags of props?
If so, what might the voice say and the props be? Too
damn fringy to predict, but if you are adventurous, check
it out and let me know.