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Running Time: 50 minutes Venue: 1423 Vine Sun, 06/05/2011 - 08:15 Tue, 06/07/2011 - 09:15 Wed, 06/08/2011 - 07:30 Fri, 06/10/2011 - 07:00 Sat, 06/11/2011 - 05:00 |
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Acclaim Recommendation, Acclaim Nominations: Staging, props, and general creativity.
Danger, intrigue, the end of the world! BUM BUM BUM!
From: Four Humors Theater
Most Fringy Thing: This show will celebrate humor and laughter every way it can. We take our humor seriously so you don't have to.
Brief Description: Danger. Intrigue. Dashing men. Clowns. Sexy women. Double crossing. The bad guy has a cat. Secrets. Dazzling Special effects. Puppets. The world is in peril and there is only one person who can save it! A new ridiculous comedy from Four Humors Theater and the artists who brought you The Finkles' Theater Show.
Artist/Company Biography: Four Humors strives to create art that celebrates the humor,... stupidity, and beauty of our world by letting the artist connect with the audience in a vulnerable and honest way. We make the beautiful foolish and the foolish beautiful.
From: Minneapolis, MN
Critics' Reviews
Review: The Examiner
by Richard O Jones
The campiest and most outlandish thing I saw at this year's Cincinnati Fringe Festival was "You Only Live Forever Once," a high-energy puppet show from Minneapolis-based Four Humors Theater, a wacky parody of the James Bond thrillers.
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Review: The Conveyor
If you've seen the movie True Lies, Bill Paxton plays a used car salesman who pretends to be a spy. Now, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Four Humor's newest show, You Only Live Forever Once, but if you imagine the pretend spy world that Bill Paxton's character would be living in, it might be something like this show, including the puppets.
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Review: CityBeat
by Rick Pender
CRITIC'S PICK
Humor involving puppets and live action, spies and parody can be dicey. It’s easy to slip right off the edge and down the slippery slope of silliness. But the creative talents who comprise Four Humors Theater in Minneapolis (back for their fourth consecutive year at the Cincinnati Fringe) have solid footing when it comes to knowing how far to push things. They make their James Bond-ian satire, You Only Live Forever Once, work in a way that’s constantly amusing, varied and entertaining. The script, written by the company’s artistic director, Jason Ballweber, is being presented in the white-box venue at 1423 Vine St.
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Review: The Conveyor
If you've seen the movie True Lies, Bill Paxton plays a used car salesman who pretends to be a spy. Now, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Four Humor's newest show, You Only Live Forever Once, but if you imagine the pretend spy world that Bill Paxton's character would be living in, it might be something like this show, including the puppets. Secret Agent Dave Johnson, played by Ryan Lear, is a James Bond-esque (as might be imagined by Jim Carey) spy in a battle of wits and puns with Wealthy Industrialist Kitty Cougarton, played by Matt Spring. Sock puppet henchmen and stick figure puppets interchange with their live action counter parts in a non-stop 50 minutes of laughs.
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Review: Behind the Curtain
The best way I can describe YOU ONLY LIVE FOREVER ONCE is James Bond meets the NAKED GUN in the style of THE 39 STEPS on a shoe string budget. All the spy movie elements you expect get the Four Humors treatment and the result is a clever, fun and imaginative homage with tongue firmly planted in cheek.
Reviews
I'll bet you haven't seen a show like this.
Again, my rating system (and I am stuck on 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)
You Only Live Forever Once Fringier
Suzana 3.5* Randy 3.5*
I have been a fan of Four Humors of Minneapolis for four years, having seen 4 of their fringe shows in 3 years. Four Humors has an unusual sense of what makes for good entertainment, which they then combine with minimalist staging and maximalist acting. I was not disappointed this year. As you may gather from the title, this bears some relationship to the archetypical spy, James Bond. It is, in fact, a parody of a Bond film. Now comes the fringier part. We get live action
sewn into a fabric that includes cheap stick puppets, over the top plot twists, Austin Powers style exaggerations, a sound track, two dimensional props, and special effects. Most importantly, this whole (potentially stupid and lame) concoction is fun, funny, and skillfully done. Austin Powers
eat your heart out.