TAMPA FRINGE | Roller Derby Saved My Soul (Broken Turtle Productions)

Roller Derby Saved My Soul is an old friend of sorts - it played at Orlando Fringe last year, and returns there this year again, too. The show premiered on the Canadian Fringe Festival Circuit back in 2011, and is now the ripe age of 6 years old.

Here's what hasn't changed: Nancy Kenny gives an engrossing solo performance as a young woman who enters the (surprisingly not seedy/seditious) world of roller derby, discovers a lesbian love interest, and finds glory. Or something like that – it's told autobiographically, but you never know. There's a lot of physical comedy involving the skating and mental fantasizing...including probably the most erotic-comedic act of putting on roller skate gear that you could imagine. 

Roller Derby Saved My Soul may not be new, but it's very neat. You might just play a "Roxanne" drinking game afterwards.