SSPs – Shameless Self-Promotions – 2014

Jurasco

Home—Red River Collegiate

Pull a device from ones pocket, and call it magic. Summon the stars and call it wizardry.

We live in an age where money dominates our politics, our lives, our actions—actions that have created a new geological epoch, and alienates us from the living world. We have forgotten the old ways of ancient wisdom, traded it for bubbles and beads.

With Steven Harper as the high priest, Home is Wayne James’ fourth appearance at the Winnipeg fringe festival.

You Rung? Productions

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander: Sideshows & Psychics—W.E.C.C.

1888. Meet the most notorious couple in colonial showbiz.

Two award winning variety entertainers from the upside down of the world bring you a story told with sideshow stunts, mindreading and magic. Will you be fooled? Five stars from Onstage Ottawa within its first few days on tour!

Animal Engine Theatre Company

Petunia and Chicken—Cinematheque

My wife and I created Petunia and Chicken when we were engage, and drunk on the nectar of love!

This classic love story combines the epic scale of romance movies, the heartbreaking struggle of pioneers as depicted in the works of author Willa Cather, and the poignant beauty of old time music.  We often describe it as “Gone With the Wind on the turn of the century American prairie,” and we’d love to share it with you!

Ink Productions

Glowing: A Reproduction Production—The Playhouse Studio

Mary-Jo Dionne was born with a sizeable defect. While you might not notice right away, soon you’d realize she was born without—gasp—a biological clock. (She was never one of those women who rubbed their bellies, imagining: “Someday…”)

This 45-minute, one-woman show takes audiences down a much-potholed road of comedic and not-so-comedic twists and turns ultimately ending up in a place she’d never have imagined. Happy Mommyhood.

(Who says all pregnant women glow, anyway?)

The Old Folk Singer

Bob Bossin’s Davy the Punk—Colin Jackson Studio

“Fascinating from first to last”—On Stage, Ottawa.

Indie music pioneer Bob Bossin’s hunt for his outlaw father is by turns fascinating, comic and poignant.

“Davy the Punk” [is] a truly bizarre, utterly Canadian tale. I wished it had gone another hour—The Marble, Victoria.

Bob Bossin’s paean to his dad, a bookie in 1940s Toronto, is charming, with moving storytelling and fine musicianship—Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight

“Funny, informative and inspiring at the same time”—Pete Seeger.

Aaron Jessup

Flying Dreams—Eckhardt-Gramatté Theater

A one-man show about Aaron Jessup’s early life as an exotic dancer raised by a pack of wild teddy bear inseminators. Kidding! (Or not).

In either case, there’s music and juggling, heartbreak and hilarity. There are references to illicit activities. Join the conformist rebellion, dammit, or live to regret it.

“This show blew my mind and broke my heart. I loved it. I had laughing tears through most of it.—BayAreaDanceWatch

Button Eye Productions

Die Roten Punkte – EUROSMASH!—The Pyramid Cabaret

Die Roten Punkte (The Red Dots) are Berlin’s Prince and Princess of indie rock and Europop.

Following sell-out shows in New York, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Montreal, the utterly dysfunctional siblings, Otto and Astrid Rot, are very excited to return to Winnipeg after four years, to unveil their eagerly anticipated fourth album, EUROSMASH!

Fans of Spinal Tap and Flight of the Conchords, say “Hello” to your new favorite band.

“Pants wettingly funny!”—Uptown Magazine.

DON’T MISS OUT. BUY YOUR tickets NOW

MV Entertainment

Slaves of Starbucks—Planetarium Auditorium

C’mon, with a title like that do I need to do any more persuading!!??

Fine, you jaded, latte-loving, meme-tweeting uber-Hipsters, here’s an organic double-soy Venti of reasons to check it out:

Winner of 5 awards; killer reviews; 19 characters; and savage takedowns of everything wrong with contemporary culture. And nothing whatever to do with Starbucks—it’s just an awesome title.

Frivolous Fools Performance

The Hudson Bay Epic—MTC Mainstage

Calgary’s quirky collective, Frivolous Fools Performance, takes on one of Canada’s most significant historic events and turns it on its head.

By using their set as a musical instrument, Frivolous Fools merge fact, fiction and fantasy to reveal a forbidden romance set against the hostile backdrop of Henry Hudson’s ice locked expedition to find the Northwest Passage. As language moves between prose, rhyme and song, three actors jump between ten characters while creating a live soundscape on an acoustic ship made out of junk!

Shoestring Players

A Small Affair—Gas Station

Perennial big-cast Shoestring (Quilters, Fringe 2013, **** Free Press) brings you rollicking visual and verbal comedy when a rag-tag assortment of actors rehearse for a TV drama, and everything that could go wrong, does.

Throw in the topical context of budget cuts at the TV station, and some tender moments, as the characters respond to their common plight, and you have as good value for theatre money to be found anywhere. We’re talking only $10 for 60 minutes of laughter.