Know Theatre - The Bengsons


		The Bengsons present music from Hundred Days performers of Ain't That Good News at the 2010 Cincinnati Fringe Festival & Music From The Proof as part of FringeDevelopment at the 2011 Festival. On Stage: August 10 & 12, 2012 Know Theatre Underground Tickets are $10 or $5 if you bring any Cincinnati Fringe memorabilia (t-shirts, passes, guides, etc.)


Overview	At the 2011 Cincinnati Fringe Festival, husband and wife duo The Bengsons, participated in a workshop as part of FringeDevelopment. Other artists participating in the Festival joined The Bengsons to rehearse and present selections of their new folk-opera, Hundred Days. Know Theatre of Cincinnati is excited to announce that The Bengsons will be returning to Cincinnati and will present an early showing of music from this new work. Performances will occur at Know Theatre of Cincinnati on August 10 & 12, 2012 at 8pm. Hundred Days is the fierce, triumphant story of a young couple who fall in love, only to have their time together cut short by illness. They decide to reject treatment and take the one year they have left together and try to live it as though it were the 60 years they had thought they would have together. They transform their apartment into a world where they can try to literally condense time, to move through their 20's, 30's, 60's, 80's, and create the experiences of a full life. Hundred Days has been developed through workshops across the country, including at the 2011 Cincinnati Fringe Festival, and a full production will debut at Z Space in San Francisco in 2014. The Bengsons also presented Ain’t That Good News at the 2010 Cincinnati Fringe Festival to sell out audiences.
Cast	.The Bengsons, a musical duo made up of Abigail and Shaun Bengson, are the best in vaudevillian indie folk and young stars of the NYC experimental music and theater community. They have performed their original shows, performances pieces and original musicals, Ain’t That Good News and The Magic Show: The Story of the Barefoot Angels, across the country and around the world. The Bengsons are also activists and teachers, who have taught students with autism in NYC’s public schools and Cambodian immigrants in Massachusetts, as well as internationally at the Market Theater Lab of Johannesburg, ZA, the Tijuana Christian Orphanage of Tijuana, Mexico, and ASAPROSA, in Santa Ana, El Salvador.
Reviews & Articles	"Not only a tremendous musical talent, but also a raw honesty and sincere righteousness." The New York Times "There is just no easy way to describe the experience... It's a little bit of everything and also unlike anything you've seen and heard before. There's no show quite like it... on any stage anywhere" Cincinnati CityBeat "Inspired... worthy of Bob Fosse's Cabaret work, as funny as it is horrifying." EDGE Entertainment “Beautiful and artful.” NYTheater.com “Friendly, fresh-faced and downright enchanting... audiences are bound to sit up and take notice.” Addison Independent “A rare and compelling talent.” Rachel Chanoff, Artistic Director of Celebrate Brooklyn and MASS MoCA
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