Longtime Fringe-favorite writer/performer Martin Dockery is back in Orlando again with another brain-bending dramedy directed by Vanessa Quesnelle, which will linger in your mind long after its chilling final fadeout. "The Stakeout" sees two suit-and-tie wearing FBI agents — Dockery as a veteran of the can-and-string era on the eve of retirement, and Andrew Broaddus as a rookie on his first day out of the academy — sitting in a surveillance van, surveilling another van that’s surveilling them right back. After eavesdropping on a distressing domestic conversation, the younger one becomes vulnerable and verbose, triggering an increasingly surreal avalanche of circular conversations centered around cyclically repeated phrases.

Catherine (writer/director Melanie Bailey), a struggling journalist covering women’s issues, falls asleep sipping wine and is visited by the Spirit of Boss Bitches, who looks just like Orlando Fringe’s "Bikini" Katie Thayer. She pixie-dusts Catherine with some powdered empowerment, then summons a coffee klatch of history’s fiercest females to deliver a pep talk through burlesque song and dance. Black Magix Royal does dangerous-looking high kicks as Queen Nefertiti and Martha P. Johnson of Stonewall fame; Cristina Ramos performs striking choreographed contemporary routines as a radioactive Marie Curie and an Andrew Lloyd Webber-less Eva Perón; and, as Eleanor of Aquitaine and astronaut Sally Ride, Valerie Voss’ athletic maneuvers will bring you to your knees.

Try your hand at Greek lasagna and Greek meatballs.