Milwaukee Fringe Festival opens this weekend with performances from around the country. One of those performances is a new work from Elizabeth Fuller and Conrad Bishop, who started their theater careers in Milwaukee.
Their new work is called "Survival," a solo show performed by Fuller on Aug. 25 as a part of the Fringe Festival. The show's characters (yes, there are two) both stem from Fuller herself. The first is Lou, a small-town handy woman who has done all sorts of things to survive life for 77 years, and the second is Bozo, her inner clown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZqh5lFgSHg
Fuller and Bishop were two of the people behind Theater X, an experimental Milwaukee-based theater group whose alumni include Willem Dafoe, John Kishline and John Schneider, a co-founder of Fringe Fest. They also founded The Independent Eye in 1974.
Fuller and Bishop joined Bonnie North in the Lake Effect studio to talk about their lives together as performers and all things theater:
