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The 2021 Orlando Fringe Festival is now in the history books with payments for participating artists sharply up despite a pandemic, improvements that will be sticking around and a new opportunity to examine how big the festival should actually be.
In a Fringe Festival filled with superheroes, self-aware refrigerators and other fantastic beasts,
Thrive is a place where you can encounter the most exotic creatures of all: actual human beings. Four brave members of the Orlando Story Club are getting on stage and publicly exposing their real-life narratives about overcoming adversity through overwhelming honesty. First, Ha’Ani Hogan wins our hearts by confessing that, as the daughter of a Casanova and a beauty queen, she’s been broken by appearance-obsessed online dating. Next, Logan Anderson opens for us an empathetic window into the traumatic brain injury that forced him to relearn how to walk, lift a glass of water or even cry. Then Elizabeth Brendel Horn shares both her painful struggles with eating disorders and infertility, as well as the pleasure of shoving her timid daughter down a snow-tube hill. Finally, Anthony Mauss utterly destroys us with his epic journey from small-town boy through the seminar
Orlando Fringe Festival reviews by Orlando Sentinel theater critic Matthew J. Palm: "It All Started at the Radisson Inn," "Thrive," "Mrs. Bliss's Titanic Adventure" and "Confessions of a Flirt."