A Fringe Quickie (#33) with ‘A Play on Words’

Questions answered by Brian Dykstra.

Q1: Aside from this Quickie, what is the most desperate marketing tactic you plan on using to get bums in seats this August? 280 chars

I thought I’d set myself on fire while juggling buckets of mercury and firing off reams of flyers with counterfeit U.S. 250 dollar bills attached that the punters can use to purchase tix. It’s self-defeating AND counter-productive…

Q2: The Fringe is horribly expensive. How are you financing this run? Did you remortgage your house, sell your granny, or start an illicit side hustle?

There are tortilla chip billionaires, there just are. They have exotic tastes, in chips, in salsa, and in the kind of sorcery only someone with advanced degrees in English lit and metal shop can provide. I give them with what they “need.” They reciprocate. ’nuff said.

Q3: If you brought this show home for the holidays, how would your parents react to them?

Like a guppy in a shark tank.

Q4: If all the shows running right now were at a massive Fringe house party, what is your show doing?

Talking an emotional cue-de-sac around the fruit flies of reason attracted to the illuminated lampposts of logic while dodging the voracious swooping bats of alternative definitions.

About the show

A Play on Words

Date(s): Week 1 (Fri 7th to Thurs 13th Aug) • Week 2 (Fri 14th to Thur 20th Aug) • Final week(s) (Fri 21st to Mon 31st Aug)

Time(s): Afternoon (Between 12-noon and 6pm)

Ticket type: Paid

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