Plays based on famous figures are a staple of the Fringe, and this year there’s a lot to choose from.
Laura Anne Harris‘s Pitch Blond (from Friday, July 8, at the Tarragon Main) takes a look at Judy Holliday, best known for her onscreen ditzy blonds although she had an IQ of 170.
There have been many shows and an Oscar-winning movie about singer Edith Piaf, but in The Sparrow And The Mouse: Creating The Music Of Edith Piaf (from Friday, July 8, at the Bathurst Street Theatre), Melanie Gall focuses on the 25-year friendship between Piaf and Marguerite Monnot, who composed songs for the chanteuse.
The recent death of actor Peter Falk should add poignancy to Boyfriends (continues from Saturday, July 9, at the Factory Studio), Nick Martin and Alexander Carson‘s look at Falk and his actor friends John Cassavetes and Ben Gazzara, who made lots of drama onscreen and off in the 1960s.
And in Abra-Cadaver! (continues from Sunday, July 10, at the Tarragon Extra Space), writer Jenna Turk plays legendary wit Dorothy Parker as a 100-year-old hoping to kill herself (a Parker obsession).
