FringeNYC Previews

Fancy Guts and Ghosts

Author: Amanda Raleigh and Karina Wolfe

Fancy Guts & Ghosts is an absurdist two-woman show that attempts to explore the prevalent themes of birth, death, and friendship, and the rituals inherent in them. The situations that are offered up are abstract, and the rhythmic language and dynamic physicality of the characters reflect this limbo-like state where nothing is being fully accomplished, yet a myriad of characters are struggling to accomplish the unseen.

With Fancy Guts and Ghosts, we are inviting you to join us on our mission to actively explore the unspoken, the suppressed — all of the organic impulses and unrealized spaces that are rarely considered or embraced in the theatre today. We want to honor and shine light on the often disregarded, yet necessary connections that are inherent when performers and audience members breathe and surrender in a room together. Our show begins in an inflatable pool filled with packing peanuts filled to the brim. Because we choose to move, there is no way to contain them neatly.

We are not attempting to represent anything neatly with our show.  We want to make a mess with everyone in the room, and we certainly are not going to talk about or embody the mess neatly either.  Our process, performance and package reflect the fact that we know nothing and we have no answers for you. We are more interested in questions we might all share, and the journeys we are willing to take to answer them. This ensures that each moment is the only moment that matters and we are all in it together.

Karina Wolfe, co-writer/co-director/co-performer