Mixing Colors at the Minnesota Fringe 08/09/2011 11:30pm

Editorial
So I strolled in to the theater today with my head held high, cutting bodies waiting in line, with my GOLDEN PASS in my purse. I have to say, it felt different and powerful to be walking around the world with all this privilege. (Fringe world that is.) As soon as the play began I started to cough, then it evolved into a cough attack that wouldn't stop. I walked out of the theater and into the lobby and there was no sign of anyone there. Only a counter full of wine, beer, and plastic cups. I followed the light in the hallway and there were fringe volunteers counting money on the floor. Through a cough I managed to ask if I could buy a water. After repeating myself twice, they told me the girl who was sellin water already left, (only 5 minutes into the play?). They continued to tell me directions on how to find a water fountain: "back into the lobby, through that one door and then turn to the left, walk down and it'll be on the right" (Lucky for me I've been at this venue before) When I walked back into the empty lobby, I marched my a** behind that counter and grabbed a plastic cup. I have to admit, I did look around, but NO I didn't steal a glass of wine or beer. I stole a plastic cup and walked to the drinking fountain and helped myself to fountain water. I thought about pulling out my privilege card, thinking it might get the volunteers to get off the floor and look in the refrigerator under the counter, but when you've never had something, you don't know how to use it when it IS there- plus, I had to tend to my cough.