FRINGEPVD The Providence Fringe Festival
  • 2025 Artists
    • 50% of Presence
    • A Wolf in Ex's Clothing
    • Actress Waiting to Audition
    • Apocalypse King; Or, the legacy of small hands (an anti-anti intellectual play) also known as, No one panic! It’s just late stage capitalism!
    • Beastly: An Autobiographical Feminist Folk Tale
    • Blue Cow Bells: Six Short Plays
    • Childhood Nostalgia
    • Chin Up
    • CHRONIC PAin au chocolat
    • Circumscribed: A True Tall Tale of One Father, Two Sons, and Thousands of Foreskins
    • Clémence et Virgile Présent: VOYAGE
    • Connecting the Dots
    • Drunken Folk Music
    • emotion/truth
    • Fatso Goes to McDonald's (and other short plays)
    • fidget. spinster.
    • Folk Music for the 21st Century
    • franny keeps live
    • Golden Arches
    • How Much Can You Change for Someone You Love?
    • How to Get a Second Husband
    • husk/vessel
    • I Am Going To Die (And All They Gave Me Were These Lousy Cupcakes)
    • I Love You, Satan
    • In A Minute
    • Jacob and the Jellyfish
    • Literary Monsters
    • Marge the Pizza Presents: A Slice of Life
    • Me'leven
    • MetroGnome: A Fully Improvised Musical
    • Modern Butchood
    • Ms. Steak's Mistakes
    • Murder, Meth and Mayhem: a folk opera
    • My Rocket Ship Crash-Landed
    • Obsessive Comedy Disorder
    • Of Petals and Fire
    • One Dead, One Alive
    • One Providence Place: A Mall Musical
    • Persistence
    • Pierrot < 3 Moon
    • Piggy Wants to Fly
    • PROMISCUOUS METALS
    • RHODE DAWN!!!
    • Shelter from the Storm
    • TBA 8&1 Dance Company East
    • The Call to Adventure: An Improvised Epic
    • "The Clothes Make The Man: A Loving Satire On 'Mrkn Fashion Featuring 'The Man In White' And The Developing Country Band"
    • The Con
    • the estate sale
    • The Farm
    • The Fear is Becoming Normal
    • The Gospel According to Susan: Confessions of a (Transgender) Serial Killer
    • The Greatest Betrayal
    • The Lady of Shalott
    • The Navel Gazers
    • The Stronger
    • The Waste Land
    • Too Fat for China
    • Travel “Whore”: The Backside of International Relations
    • Trolley Stop(s)
    • Two Passengers
    • Unscripted: The Everchanging One Act Play
    • Whatever Fate Decides
    • When Cayden Came
    • WomenInShorts Part Deux
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 Blue cow bells: six Short play

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Blue Cow Bells: Six Short Plays
The Blue Cow Group

​Hometown: 
Providence, RI

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DESCRIPTION OF PIECE

Ring, knell, toll, clang. Jingle, jangle, rattle, chime.

Bells of all kinds--call bells, sleigh bells, school bells, handbells, and more--feature in each of our very different short plays.

Come check them out! We'll be here with bells on.

Pavlov's Bells: A Political Parody (or is it?)
by Dorothy Abram

Sleigh Bells Ring
by Elaine Brousseau

All the Way, Up
by Susan Buttrick

Ascension
by Susan Cat Collyer

The Sunday Scaries
by Martha Douglas-Osmundson

Building Up
by Jayne Hannah

Cyrus Orion Busteed is directing.


ABOUT THE ARTIST
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The Blue Cow Group is a Providence-based playwriting group of members Dorothy Abram, Elaine Brousseau, Kay Bullard, Susan Buttrick, Judith Clinton, Susan Cat Collyer, Martha Douglas-Osmundson, and Jayne Hannah. Members' plays have been produced at venues across the country, including the Boston Theater Marathon, Wilbury Theatre Group, Culture*Park, Acme Theatre, Orange Players, Gallery Players Brooklyn, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Boxfest Detroit, Emerson Theatre Collaborative, Green Room at Barker Playhouse, Contemporary Theatre Company, Actors Studio of Newburyport, Urbanite Theatre, Fusion Theatre, Pan Theater, WomensWork Theatre Collaborative, Neil LaBute Festival, and United Nations Committee on Refugees, Immigrants, and Mental Health. This is the group's 10th year participating in PVD Fringe!

FRINGE 2025: July 13-26, 2025


​FRINGEPVD : The 2025
Providence Fringe Festival®
​​IS PRESENTED BY
 THE WILBURY THEATRE GROUP
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  • 2025 Artists
    • 50% of Presence
    • A Wolf in Ex's Clothing
    • Actress Waiting to Audition
    • Apocalypse King; Or, the legacy of small hands (an anti-anti intellectual play) also known as, No one panic! It’s just late stage capitalism!
    • Beastly: An Autobiographical Feminist Folk Tale
    • Blue Cow Bells: Six Short Plays
    • Childhood Nostalgia
    • Chin Up
    • CHRONIC PAin au chocolat
    • Circumscribed: A True Tall Tale of One Father, Two Sons, and Thousands of Foreskins
    • Clémence et Virgile Présent: VOYAGE
    • Connecting the Dots
    • Drunken Folk Music
    • emotion/truth
    • Fatso Goes to McDonald's (and other short plays)
    • fidget. spinster.
    • Folk Music for the 21st Century
    • franny keeps live
    • Golden Arches
    • How Much Can You Change for Someone You Love?
    • How to Get a Second Husband
    • husk/vessel
    • I Am Going To Die (And All They Gave Me Were These Lousy Cupcakes)
    • I Love You, Satan
    • In A Minute
    • Jacob and the Jellyfish
    • Literary Monsters
    • Marge the Pizza Presents: A Slice of Life
    • Me'leven
    • MetroGnome: A Fully Improvised Musical
    • Modern Butchood
    • Ms. Steak's Mistakes
    • Murder, Meth and Mayhem: a folk opera
    • My Rocket Ship Crash-Landed
    • Obsessive Comedy Disorder
    • Of Petals and Fire
    • One Dead, One Alive
    • One Providence Place: A Mall Musical
    • Persistence
    • Pierrot < 3 Moon
    • Piggy Wants to Fly
    • PROMISCUOUS METALS
    • RHODE DAWN!!!
    • Shelter from the Storm
    • TBA 8&1 Dance Company East
    • The Call to Adventure: An Improvised Epic
    • "The Clothes Make The Man: A Loving Satire On 'Mrkn Fashion Featuring 'The Man In White' And The Developing Country Band"
    • The Con
    • the estate sale
    • The Farm
    • The Fear is Becoming Normal
    • The Gospel According to Susan: Confessions of a (Transgender) Serial Killer
    • The Greatest Betrayal
    • The Lady of Shalott
    • The Navel Gazers
    • The Stronger
    • The Waste Land
    • Too Fat for China
    • Travel “Whore”: The Backside of International Relations
    • Trolley Stop(s)
    • Two Passengers
    • Unscripted: The Everchanging One Act Play
    • Whatever Fate Decides
    • When Cayden Came
    • WomenInShorts Part Deux
    • Working Title: THE CALLING, or BROKE
    • "Would I Lie to You?" Played by PIG Performers
    • Zauber Magic Flute Enchantée
  • Special Events
    • "Let's Fringe!" Opening Night Party
    • Sims Ave Fest + Family Fringe!
    • Haus of Codec LGBTQQIA+ Resource Fair & ART Marketplace
    • Busking at the Fringe!
    • Motion State Arts Dance Classes
    • Writing at the Fringes - LitArts RI
    • Artist Mixer
    • Closing Party
    • What the Fringe?! Panel
  • Venues
    • 50 SIMS
    • ALCO
    • Buttonwoods Brewery
    • Farm Fresh
    • ISCO
    • LitArts RI
    • PUBLIC
    • Teatro ECAS
    • The Steel Yard
    • Troop
    • WaterFire Arts Center
    • Wilbury Theatre Group
  • About
    • FAQ's
    • About The Wilbury Theatre Group
  • Support
  • swag