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Boxcutter Harmonica
By Paper Soul
Written by J. Merrill Motz
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Show Description
Just what is "Boxcutter Harmonica"? Deal with the devil gone wrong, a 400 year murder mystery solved or the second fiddle's blues? Two existential detectives finally have the answer.
Genre and Content
Content Warnings
The creators say this show is appropriate for ages 12-15 and up
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Seat Reservations and Show Tickets
| Add to Schedule | Date | Time | Ticket Options | Quantity | Purchase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 08/02 | 8:30 PM | ||||
| Sun 08/03 | 7:00 PM | ||||
| Wed 08/06 | 5:30 PM | ||||
| Sat 08/09 | 10:00 PM | ||||
| Sun 08/10 | 2:30 PM |
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Cast and Crew
Martin Dockery
Detective WhiteMartin Dockery is a theater artist who's played in just about every type of venue, from large theaters to intimate trailer homes to solitary performances broadcast from a front porch. He spends the majority of the year touring and performing his twelve one-person shows and seven two-person plays to festivals and theaters in Canada, Australia, the UK, and the US. If you visit the About page of his website you can peruse the various festival awards he's won since he started touring in 2009. During the pandemic, he broadcast a brand new show every five weeks about the personal effects of social distancing. Entitled RIGHT NOW, the show lives on both this website and on YouTube. (Search for "Dockery Right Now.") He's also played the Mayor of New York City in The SoHo Playhouse's immersive theater production Tammany Hall. Most recently, he played Renfield in PUSH Physical Theater's touring production of Dracula. He has a BA in English from Kenyon College (where he won the Paul Newman Award for acting) and an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University. He met his wife at a fringe in London, ON, and they now have a beautiful, engaging, kind-hearted daughter. Check out Martin's 2025 Touring Schedule at: https://www.martindockery.com/
J. Merrill Motz
Inspector BlackMotz (rhymes with boats) wishes his bio looked more like Martin's, but whatever. You may have seen him recently as Solyony in Theatre Pro Rata's simultaneous productions of Three Sisters/No Sisters or as Professor Mathers in Fortune Fool's Lincoln's Children. He received his MA in Playwriting from Ohio University and a BFA in Acting from Central Michigan University. He works for the University of Minnesota, serves on the Board of Directors for Theatre Pro Rata, sits on the Artist Committee for the MN Fringe, and will be appearing this fall in Theatre Pro Rata's production of Lauren Gunderson's Book of Will as Richard Burbage. How's that? www.papersoul.org
Thomas Buan
DirectorThomas M Buan is a Twin Cities based Theatre Person. Previous favorite MN Fringe appearances include The Invention of Baseball, Good Friday the 13th, The Peter Pan Cometh, and Who’s Afraid of Winnie The Pooh? Previous MN Fringe Directorial experiences include How To Kill A Horse and Welcome to the Food Chain (Both productions winner of The Golden Lanyard Award). Come to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for Thomas’s next onstage appearance in the international tour of Clevername Theatre’s The Peter Pan Cometh, right after MN Fringe
Jay Fosgitt
Poster ArtJay P. Fosgitt has illustrated and written for Disney Publishing Worldwide, Marvel, Image, Boom! Studios/Archaia, IDW, King Features, Simon and Schuster among others, and worked on many popular characters as well as his own creations. He lives outside Detroit, Michigan. https://www.jayfosgitt.com/
Alexander Gerchak
Production AssistantMore Information
A remounting of the "Sleeper Hit of the 2013 MN Fringe", featuring MN Fringe Favorite, Golden Lanyard winner, world-wide Fringe Festival Touring Circuit extraordinaire Martin Dockery! Named "Audience's Pick", "Producer's Pick", "Patron's Pick", "Critic's Choice Best Show", "Best of Fest", "Best in Fest", "Best Solo Show", and "Best Storyteller"! Check out Martin's 2025 Touring Schedule at: https://www.martindockery.com/
Also featuring J. Merrill Motz (rhymes with boats).
So just what is "Boxcutter Harmonica"? Deal with the devil gone wrong, a 400 year murder mystery solved or the second fiddle's blues? Two existential detectives finally have the answer.
It's all a con, they say.
A new song unearthed in the Library of Congress Archives, believed to be the long lost, long fabled 30th recording of Robert Johnson, arguably the greatest of all delta blues guitarists?
Impossible!
The song is the Second Fiddle's Blues, because, the legend goes, Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil to learn how to be the greatest. What would someone else be willing to do to take his place?
Furthermore, an unsolved murder from the days of the Renaissance of a colleague of Michelangelo on the eve of helping him paint THE LAST JUDGMENT at the Sistine Chapel bears striking resemblance. Was he murdered? Had he made a deal with the devil to get out from Michelangelo's shadow?
What do these two men, 300 years apart, one a painter, the other a blues man, have in common?
Luckily, Inspector Black and Detective White of the prestigious* "Black, White, & The Blues Historical Investigation, LTD: We Start Where Wikipedia Ends" firm bring their Award-Winning* Deductive Reasoning to shed some light on this mystery, and will not allow you to leave until The Truth (capital T's both) is revealed.
* - Notation Needed.
2013 MN Fringe Audience Reviews:
"phenomenal, hilarious, and sneakily profound"
"This show requires the audience's undivided attention and participation."
"Cerebral and emotional, dark and humorous"
"Motz tosses the fourth wall and traditional theatrical structure into the wood chipper."
"Amazing presentation, fascinating topic, wonderfully told."
"captivating with a beautiful ease; charismatic without being showy."
