K L Brisby's "The Yellow Hell of Vincent Van Gogh: a memoir of music and Blood" at San Diego International Fringe Festival 2017 post 3
KL Brisby, William B.J. Robinson, Delores Fisher, Paul Arajo San Diego Fringe Festival 2017 presented another definite hit show with the cast of K. L. Brisby's historically researched script "The Yellow Hell of Vincent Van Gogh: a memoir of music and blood." KL Brisby and Gingerlily Lowe are San Diego theater icons. I met them approximately 30 years ago when I was cast as Uncle Remus in a show with Brisby. It was a slightly controversial yet innovative theater story project. As I remember it, lead male actors pulled away from the show due to socio-cultural community "fall out." Encouraged to try the role, I helped to create a cross generational/gender role. Uncle Remus-a male character based on the Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus folktales, is played as an aging slave almost 80 years old. The musical played to a packed house for children and adults every show. As with my stage work at other theaters and with so many other nationally acclaimed Sa...