A Chris Davis Production, in the realm of genre, Fringe Performances, and one for its own category. How did this come to be? The fringe performances are a creative engine for individual theater artists to produce a show motivated, and driven to transcend the boundaries of Arts & Entertainment.
Chris has an amazing ability to imagine and reach his audience, while at the same time orchestrating different characters on stage. This theme brings up the topic of profiles, very specific roles, and popular personalities in the field of cinema and with repertoire personae.
Chris Davis is not only an actor, performer, and artist, but a producer in his own right. He is working with many in the community, including comedy, to extend the traditions of conducting and hosting a festival of art with perspective for new, and emerging artists.
Who thought? One could take a trait, almost like dementia or schizophrenia, and direct out of the entertaining quality of captivating a space and audience around this imagination, but that’s the fascinating part of this genre of performance art. The fringe genre creates a space for artists to create pieces that conceptually evoke, art for art’s sake, and it will draw a clear line to what is, ‘Contemporary Art.’
Visiting the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland exposes on to the limits and gusto of comedians and self promoting theater on the fringe of the Edinburgh International Festival. It was purposefully designed to compare to large budget theater, music, and expositions which were negotiated to showcase art of the world in one place. This festival of art recognized as the biggest art festival in the world, culminates international exposure for artists promoting their shows on the fringe of this global event. This is in light of Chris Davis’s profile, and showcase at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh.
The signature style which the critics of Philadelphia have talked about with so many of these solo performances is the ability to transform into character. The storyteller here is a vehicle to enthuse, and dance around the subject of our imagination. If the audience has taken anything away from these performances it is that definition of storytelling, that is, the ability to open our minds.
First, this is just the beginning of the talented One-Man Show, Chris Davis Production, because as we have seen in his recent work called, The Producer, he takes us through the dilemma of being criticized, labeled: amateur, or plain demoralized to individual artists backed by zero $$. This is opposed to large organizations that receive bigger donations, program grants, and benefactors.
It was “Apocalypse Now One-Man Show”, that started the whirl wind. You have all seen the movie, and you have all seen many one-man shows before, but has anyone ever thought of a One-Man Show, Apocalypse Now? There is this image of Marlyn Brando eating a papaya. It was the culmination of a series of events in order to arrive at this one moment that made it all worth it. The plot grew deeper and deeper into the psychology of the action, so much that, tensions dissolve instantly, and its just this Marlyn Brando character eating a papaya.
*Apocalypse Now, 2021, performed by Steve Wright. It was the first live performance at the return back from government mandated closures to stop the spread of COVID-19 .