Jay & Eytan

Comedy Records Presents: Jay & Eytan—Rio – Portage Place

We’re Jay & Eytan and all we care about is making you laugh! Our sketch and stand-up show can be spicy, or just loud and silly. It’s what you would see at a comedy club on a Saturday night!

“Energetic, quick-witted performers who cleverly send up everything from insecure bros to pop culture touchstones.” – NOW Magazine

“A sketch-standup spectacular! 60 minutes full of so many smart and hilarious bits. Gut punching comedy show with guaranteed laughs.” – Mooney On Theatre

Jim Loucks

Booger Red—Rio – Portage Place

Booger Red survives a rough childhood to become a renowned Hellfire and Brimstone Southern Baptist preacher. How can Preacher’s Kid Jimmy find a way out from under Booger Red’s larger-than-life shadow as he grows up and finds his own voice? If you’ve ever had a dream or a daddy, Loucks’ gritty and passionate solo performance is for you.

“Loucks’s performance is intense and captivating, alternately playing himself and his father with clarity and precision.”- High Stakes Theater, NYC

Sisterscene

Opera Mouse—Kids Venue

Did you know that there’s actual opera at the Winnipeg Fringe this year? Opera sung by…a mouse? Yes, Tillie Mouse has come back to the Fringe, and she’s teaching kids (and their adults) to follow their musical dreams. Tillie has traveled the world, performing to thousands of kids as far away as Sudan, Chad, Cambodia and Laos. She has performed Off-Broadway in New York City, and promises squeaking, singing and the most fun you can have with your whiskers on!

Melanie Gall Presents

Ingenue: Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland and the Golden Age of Hollywood—Tom Hendry Warehouse

Most people don’t know that the most famous movie star in 1930s Hollywood came…from Winnipeg! Yes, Deanna Durbin started her life in the Weston neighbourhood, before going to LA and taking Hollywood by storm (who knows… you may be living in her very house!). From saving Universal Studios from bankruptcy, to her famous rivalry with Judy Garland, Deanna’s story is fascinating. Bring your parents and grandparents along, and learn about the fascinating life of “Winnipeg’s Sweetheart”.

John Michael

Meatball Séance—The Rachel Browne Theatre

Did you hear John Michael has a new boyfriend? Oh yes! In honor of the grand occasion, you and the new beau and the entire audience are cordially invited to meet John’s mom. But she’s deceased… Sad. So he’s gonna summon her from the dead by cooking her famous meatballs onstage! Yay! Wait, what?

“John Michael is the wide-eyed, enthusiastic, bombastic breath of fresh air that every fringe needs.” – The Orlando Sentinel

Hamdad Productions

Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales—Kids Venue

Hello! I’m the Legal Guy! Come check out Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales at MTYP. If you don’t, you will be visited by the Stinky Cheese Man himself. He is the big CHEESE, so you better make GOUDA and oblige even if you disa-BRIE. I know, I’m probably making you CURDLE. If it helps I’m writing this from a dark room where I’ll be forever PROVOLONE-ly. Any complaints can be sent to the FETA Business Bureau.

Small Matters Productions

FOR SCIENCE!—Asper Centre for Theatre and Film

What would you get if Bill Nye the Science Guy and Beaker from the Muppets had two love children raised by the Blue Man Group? You’d get an absurd investigation of instant gratification and celebration of the scientific method, an audience participation show for people who hate audience participation, a show that sparks the utter joy of losing yourself to curiosity. You get The Professor and The Lab Assistant in… FOR SCIENCE! www.smallmatters.ca

Palabra Flamenco

Palabra Flamenco: Fox Woman—Asper Centre for Theatre and Film (U of W)

A lonely hunter returns to his hut to find a powerful creature, part woman and part fox, cooking stew. She turns, and says, “I will be the woman of this hut.” A mercurial love affair ignites. But what happens when we accommodate too much? When the domestic and the wild are uneasy together? And when someone we love becomes violent, do we recognize it? Do we leave? Palabra Flamenco: Fox Woman is magnetic storytelling and passionate flamenco dance and guitar.

Ditch Water Theatre

Commando: The Radio Play—Centennial Concert Hall – Rehearsal Hall

Commando: The Radio Play is an audio adaptation of the 1985 movie Commando starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the spirit of MTC’s radio play production of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” our show features less Christmas, more summer action blockbuster. All audio will be performed live with a sound effect artist and a cast of talented voice actors.

Charles Adrian as Ms Samantha Mann

Dear Samantha—Planetarium

A well-meaning spinster librarian who is not needed so much in the library these days, the very British Ms. Samantha Mann has been looking for another outlet for her talents. Luckily for us, she has decided to share her wisdom with the world. In Dear Samantha, she reveals what it is like to be what we Brits call an Agony Aunt. “It’s rather like being a therapist,” explains Samantha, “but without the training.” Find her on the Youtube at youtube.com/mssamanthamann.