Fringe Festival: Entry (or, you think you know me)

"Entry (or, you think you know me)", written by S. Thomasin Barsotti and directed by Taylor Stark, is presented by Boston University School of Theatre as part of the 2024 Fringe Festival.

Some time after a personal tragedy, Coye and Whit retreat to a lakeside cottage to rest and recover. There, what begins as a benign vacation morphs into a nightmare as they begin to obsess over strange entries in the cottage’s guestbook–entries that describe their emotional experiences; entries that detail their actual grief; and even entries that appear to have been written by them. As they begin to lose themselves in the narratives of the book and confuse their own stories with those they are reading, they are tossed into a whirlpool of the uncanny in which identities shatter, memories change, and the darkness of the past threatens to swallow the future. Before they can leave this place, they must confront how well they really know each other, and whether they will ever find each other again.

The Boston University Fringe Festival, now in its 28th year, is a collaboration between the College of Fine Arts School of Music: Opera Institute and School of Theatre. The festival’s mission is to produce new or rarely performed significant works in the opera and theatre repertoire, bringing performances and audiences together in unique theatrical settings. For almost three decades, Fringe Festival at Boston University has celebrated and amplified new work, shown in spare and minimal productions.