Congratulations to Scot Augustson, whose two-character play Gilgamesh, Iowa won the Artists' Pick for Best Show at this year's Minnesota Fringe Festival. Produced by Seattle's Ethereal Mutt, Limited--which also produced the play's run at Seattle's Union Garage last fall (where Stranger writer Brendan Kiley saw it and praised the play as "that rarest of dramatic creatures--an intelligent, comedic allegorical drama")--Gilgamesh chronicles the adult reunion of two boyhood friends, brought to life by Seattle actors Tim Gouran and Jonah Von Spreecken, under the direction of Keri Healey (also an acclaimed playwright, who penned the local fringe hits Parrot Fever and Cherry Cherry Lemon). This high-quality writer-actor-director combo not only won the top prize from the Minnesota Fringe's artists, but also was freakishly successful with audiences, packing houses and averaging five out of five stars (!) in audience polls. Following the Minnesota triumph, Gilgamesh, Iowa next heads to the Vancouver Fringe Festival, with actor Evan Mosher taking over for Tim Gouran. Can a triumphant tour-ending Seattle remount be far behind? Cross your gnarly fingers. ADDISON DeWITT

On Saturday night I wandered down to Broadway to see Trailer Park. This, as the name rather slyly does not suggest, is a bit of park built on a trailer: a stone path through a lush patch of grass, a neat little wood-and-wrought-iron bench, some trees, flowers, and a running waterfall, on that night taking up two parking spaces outside Septieme. This was the latest project from John Sutton, Ben Beres, and Zac Culler, the unbelievably active trio who graduated from Cornish a couple of years ago.

It was an absurd thing, but that wasn't the whole of it. And certainly you could read it politically if you wanted--something about the dearth of available public space. But my husband and I simply sat on the bench and watched the foot traffic on Broadway watch us back, the dynamic of people-watching turned on its head by this simple inversion. We wondered what our behavior ought to be: Could we litter? Should we have brought a 40? Could one smoke? Like the very best installation art, Trailer Park reorganized the world around it.

If you saw Trailer Park that evening, you're lucky--that was the only planned date on its tour. For the next few weeks, Sutton, Beres, and Culler will be driving it around the city, so you might catch it somewhere else, but the accidental nature of it is part of the point. Nothing, my husband told me, among all the art I'd dragged him to see over the past three years, had made him quite so happy. EMILY HALL

Hey! Come support the art of the only city council member who consistently supports the arts! Nick Licata is reading from his young-adult novel at Bumbershoot, Mon Sept 1 at 2:45 pm, in the Alki Room.