“Honestly, our show is probably going to bring variety shows back to the popular consciousness. In the end, this will end poverty, racism, and stop people from leaving their carts loose in the grocery store parking lot.”
Responder: Charles Parrott, Producer
Name of Company: The Parliament of Owls
Name of Show: Short Attention Span Variety Hour
- Why should people see your show?
The Short Attention Span Variety Hour is the perfect combination of contemporary content and classic stylings. Inspired by vintage variety shows, this prodigious program promises to delight and edify anyone loves to see a lot of different things happen very quickly.
- What about festivals intrigues you? Any why the Atlanta Fringe?
The fact is, we all go WAY back with the Atlanta Fringe. Various parts of the Parliament of Owls have shown up at this festival in multiple iterations for many years. Fringe festivals are the research and development of the performance world and we are thrilled to be a part of this awesome event.
- What inspired you to create this?
The Short Attention Span Variety Hour lives and breaths with the synergy of multiple artists and different performance genres getting mixed together into a delicious stew of artistic goodness. The uncertainty and electricity of these unexpected combinations inspire us to create.
- This year ain’t normal and there’s no sense pretending it is. How has Covid affected what you’re doing for this festival?
Mostly, COVID has kept us at arms length from audiences. We are tremendously excited to be back in front of real live people again.
No one iteration of the Short Attention Span Variety Hour is the same as another, so we are always in motion and always evolving. That means every show is a little bit different than we expected.
- There’s a mysterious stranger in the back row of your show, wearing a big ol’ N95 mask and a baseball cap and there’s something weirdly familiar about them, and then they come up afterwards to tell you they loved your show. In your WILDEST DREAMS, who is this mysterious stranger? (Bonus points if your mysterious stranger is an Atlanta celeb.)
Oh wow! Look! It’s future Georgia Governor Stacey Abrams and she loves our show! And she’s giving us a grant and taking us out for barbecue! What’s that? Of course we’ll read a draft of your new romance novel–yes please! This is the greatest night of our lives!
- Fringes are the place to really push the boundaries so we gotta ask: are you inviting your family to this show are “Hey, maybe sit this one out you guys…”
While we don’t get dirty, our show isn’t designed with the littles in mind–so kiddos should not come.
- We’ve asked this question every year for the past ten years or so but it hits different this year: Will your show change the world?
Honestly, our show is probably going to bring variety shows back to the popular consciousness, subsequently demonstrating the importance of difference and diversity. In the end, this will end poverty, racism, and stop people from leaving their carts loose in the grocery store parking lot.
- Zoom meetings: dress up head to toe or Donald Duck it?
We’re going to go full-Winnie the Pooh on this one: shirt, no pants, big jar of honey
- We’re making an excellent Fringey Feelings playlist. Describe your show in two or three songs we can add to keep the jams flowing.
Let’s try Look at Grandma by Bo Diddley and The Muppet Show theme
Sounds incredible, right? Gonna need to nab those tickets, right? Click here to reserve your seats today!
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