Jul 31, 2006
Dr. Robert Hubbard, theatre and speech, will perform his solo show, "Dancing with Jimmy," at the Minnesota Fringe Festival Aug. 3-13.
The play depicts a near-fatal rock climb in the Black Hills as seen through Hubbard’s comic hindsight. As darkness descends, three stranded climbers find themselves cold, injured and completely outmatched by the vertical landscape. Trapped by darkness, they ruminate on friendship, morality and 1980s popular culture.
Hubbard debuted “Dancing with Jimmy” at a theatre conference in New York City to positive critical response and has since performed it in a variety of venues including the Thunder Bay Fringe Festival in Ontario, Canada, and the Solo Performance Festival in Baltimore, Md.
Lowry Marshall, theatre professor at Brown University commented, “As his story unfolded, I was transported out of my cozy chair to a mountain top where life and death hung in the balance. I couldn’t take my eyes away.”
Hubbard plays himself, his friends, Dan and Lee, and Jimmy Crow, a member of the Santee-Lakota Tribe. A fifth “character” in the play is the Black Hills, whose beautiful danger is communicated through Hubbard’s descriptive passages. Hubbard’s witty presentation of this foolish expedition adds a playful feel to the adventure narrative.
Theatre and speech
