Boston Fringe Festival

Dear Constant Reader, This past weekend I was unexpectedly able to attend two shows at the second annual Boston Fringe Festival, held, of course, in Somerville. The first was Our Lord and Savior, a play written, directed, and featuring the multitalented Alana Corrigan. I think it shows how much respect I have for Lani that I voluntarily, nay, eagerly, came to a production that started at 10pm. Our story is set at a Bible study group in Minnesota with five teens overseen by an overwhelmed youth pastor. He’s trying to get through the lesson of Sampson and Delilah. He’s also coping with the fact that his wife who left him for another woman. Beginning with the hymn “Our God is a Pretty Good God”, the humor was foremost. There is teenaged angst, exacerbated with Christian guilt. There are a number of hymn-inspired original songs, accompanied by an acoustic guitar of course, through which the characters let out some of their innermost anxieties. The play is clearly written by one who knows…