Neat Story
Viento—Tom Hendry Warehouse
From the brilliant minds that brought you the smash hit Musicals are Stupid: A Stupid Musical. The year: 1841. The place: The Olde West. The players: Four outlaws and one majestic horse with a special destiny. Witness the power of (platonic) love and the world’s first basketball-playing horse in Neat Story’s Viento!
Patchwork Theatre
Filthy Fakespeare…and Friend—aceartinc.
Hey everybody, this is Patrick from “Fakespeare” , “Sound & Fury”, other stuff.
I brought a weird show this year that is essentially a VERY adult rated Renaissance Faire Pub crawl in one location.
Andrew Silver, an award winning international comedian who is also doing “Love Thy Neighbor”, will be performing with me as well as countless other Fringe performers.
This is mostly a show for us to get out our bad material 🙂
Do not bring the kids!
Happy Fringe!
Cactus Theatre Co
Unresolved—One88
How do you get out of bed and face the day when a piece of your heart is missing? Allan Turner’s haunting tale is a parent’s worst nightmare. Struggling with the loss of their child, Jack and Melissa are barely hanging on. Who do they blame? Each other? Themselves? Or someone else? See this all too real story of pain and grief that is “Unresolved”.
Strokes of Genius
Captain Ted: Disabled Astronaut—One88
Captain Ted, the former wheelchair-using pirate, is back. This time, he’s leading his disabled crew on a sci-fi Star Trek spoof as they travel the cosmos in a dodgy Gazebo Class starship. The venue is listed as not accessible; however, there is an elevator available to assist you if you need it (just come early). Just ask Ted…this is his second adventure in Venue #23 (One88), he hasn’t missed a mission, and he is a wheelchair user.
Sonya Ballantyne Entertainment
How Bono Saved my Life (Three Times)—Club 200
Creative Native Sonya Ballantyne is a long time Fringe reviewer and first time Fringe performer. Her spoken word show looks at three instances when she was going to take her own life and what stopped her each time (spoiler: it usually had to do with U2). Sonya was inspired by Duane Forrest’ Bob Marley How Reggae Changed the World to write this piece as well as seeing a lack of Indigenous Fringe content during her time as a reviewer.
Comedy Illusions of Greg Wood
Fringe Family Fun Show—John Hirsch Mainstage
Warning: this show contains grandchildren, mind reading, floating furniture, impossible escapes, suspicious amounts of root beer, and one magician who is no longer fully in charge. Greg Wood and Oonaugh bring a clean, fast-moving comedy magic show for families who want big laughs without anyone getting embarrassed. Bring kids, parents, grandparents, and that uncle who says, “I know how that’s done.” He doesn’t.
Still Your Friend
Serious Comedy—The Rachel Browne Theatre
Winnipeg’s Quinn Greene and Fringe Circuit Veteran Adam Bailey bring the two sides of Fringe, Locals and Touring Artists, together each night in an improv show that can only be described as Serious Comedy…
The best Shameless Self Promotion we can do is tell YOU which Fringe-celebrities will be guest starring in each show:
- Thu. July 16th, 2:30: Jarrett Miller, Isaac Kesler, Patrick Hercamp, & Willow Rosenberg
- Fri. July 17th, 12:30: Christopher D’Arcy Dunn, Alli Perlov, Joanna Rannelli & Jeff Laird
- Sat. July 18th, 9:15: Brad Torres, Tim Hoffman, Brian Gashgarian, C. Neil Parsons & TJ Dawe
- Tue. July 21st, 6:00: Riva Billows, Aaron Merke, Lauren Cochrane & Jon Bennett
- Thu. July 23rd, 4:15: Jeremy Plett, Kenton Dyck, Rod Peter Jr & Willow Rosenberg
- Fri. July 24th 11AM: Scott Cranwill, Cathy Herbert, Matti McLean & Diane Jorge
- Sat. July 25th, 2:30: Bev Fredborg, Alan Mackenzie, Holly Maryan & George McRobb
- Sun. July 26th, 7:45: Dewey Parker, Anjali Sandu, Birdie Burke, Marissa Sauvé & Onika Henry
Starr Street Productions
Absolutely Not a Cult—Théâtre Cercle Molière
Marriage. Communes. Chickens. Autonomous weapons. Jill comes home from vacation convinced she’s found a better way to live. John believes she’s fallen under the spell of Wade, a charismatic young man who introduced her to life on a mountain commune. What follows is an increasingly absurd collision of love, ideology, and technology with increasingly outrageous consequences. Everyone means well- and that’s exactly the problem.
Pilgrims’ Pieces
On Tidy Endings—The Rachel Browne Theatre
A man has died, leaving behind a son, a husband, and an ex-wife to tie up loose ends following his death. Written by the great Harvey Fierstein, On Tidy Endings challenges the question “Who’s loss is it in the end?”. Through raw wit and emotion, this 45 minute play explores the relationships of those left behind, and how to move forward when the glue holding them together is no longer there.
M.P.M.M Productions
Looking for love in all the weird places—The Output @ Video Pool
In life there’s many bad ideas…
Swimming with sharks, feeding a gremlin after midnight, running around in a lightning storm while only wearing copper, trying to date in your 40s post divorce…
For those who’ve second guessed every decision in their lives, there comes a time for you to throw caution to the wind, magically grow a set and just go for it… what’s the worst that could happen?
