Naked Theatre Productions

Harper & Row—Pantages Studio

Harper & Row is an original piece about two girls facing their grade 7 year. Having each other only as pen pals make it that much harder. Enns and Flynn are “dynamic performers  who make good use of physical movements and facial expressions… in this fast-paced coming-of-age story” –Winnipeg Free Press. Come to venue 3 and see a year in the life of these two charming young girls unfold.

Mindful Productions

Eastport—School of Contemporary Dancers

Eastport, a drama with sprinkles of laughter. What happens when a widow receives a knock on her door, a B&B no longer in operation? Does she let the stranger in?  Who is this stranger and what is the purpose for the visit? To find out the answers to these questions, stop by Venue 13, School of Contemporary Dancers. 3 star review by CBC.  For tickets, click here.

It’s All Relative Productions

Filter This—Cinematheque

Do you love social media? Do you hate it? Does your phone have a life of its own?

Filter This is a comedy where two people see if they can live in each other’s world. Olivia is über plugged into Social Media and Dan, well, he likes pens and scribblers. The Meme is their constant companion… tweeting, texting, and binging into their lives. Can opposites attract? And if so, do they have to tweet about it?

Keith Brown

Hotter Than Potter—Son of Warehouse

Master Magician Keith Brown returns to the Winnipeg Fringe with a brand new show!

Keith is a TEDx speaker, recently played the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas.

Toronto’s BEST Magician… and he’s not even from Toronto!

“You’re Incredible!” – Dave Grohl

“A must see on the fringe circuit” – Theatre in London

“A delight for people of all ages” – London Free Press

“You do not want to miss it” – Mooney on Theatre

See it to believe it!

Dear Jenny,

Having read Ms. Campbell’s review submitted to the Jenny Revue about the life experience’s depicted in my show, “Trued on a Base Story: A Cautionary Tale”, I was somewhat disappointed that she chose to review the experiences themselves rather than the show about them. I was rather hoping to receive some comment on how effective or not the presentation was, how provoking perhaps, or how the production succeeded or failed in achieving its goals.

Choosing to attack me instead of my performance does little to help my production improve, and little to help fellow fringe-goer’s decide what to see, which I have always thought was the goal of any review: ask what a show aims for, and evaluate how close it comes to the mark.

Speaking from several years experience as a CBC Fringe reviewer myself, I know it’s a difficult task, especially when the subject material touches close to one’s heart, as mine obviously did in Ms. Campbell’s case. I should hope she is aware that, when it comes to beating me up emotionally, she will have to train up quite significantly before she reaches my weight class. Nevertheless, I do invite others to come to evaluate the show, rather than the experience I lived, since I can do nothing about the latter, but seek to make the former as entertaining and effective as possible.

Sincerely,
John Sadoway

The Super Secret Fringe Show

A whole bunch of people—Wee Johnny’s Irish Pub

The first rule of the Super Secret Fringe Show… Is you do not talk about the super secret fringe show… that is all.

Kaitlyn Kriss

Instagraham

Laugh Gallery—Wee Johnny’s Irish Pub

This show is exactly what you would expect, Graham Clark going through funny pictures from his Instagram account. Why? “Because I’ve seen shows justified by more than that” -Graham Clark. Clark’s observational comedy was genuinely funny. I giggled quite a few times and had a really good time. The best part was Clark going through the audience’s Instagram pictures. Don’t worry! He’s never mean and I ended up finding humor in things I would have generally ignored. All in all a neat show to see with some friends while enjoying a beer.

Kaitlyn Kriss

Tough

Erin Rodgers—Red River College

This gritty and honest revelation touches more sensitive areas than you knew existed. The delivery raw, which is intentional, rather than smooth and refined. That’s perfect since many of the topics are quite raw and need exposure to normalise.

In the end, you discover that life’s tough for most of us—but yeah, people are tough too.

Ray Yuen

A Woman of a Certain Age™

Archetype Productions—Planetarium

I’m getting to love this gal. Whatever she does is worth seeing, well thought out and expertly done. Her plays are believable, astute in portraying the way real people think, feel and behave. Being of that ‘certain age’, the play seemed especially made for me. Her performance is warm, funny and has great insight into the cruelty of the march of time, especially for women. I’m not going to divulge the plot. Just trust me that you will thoroughly enjoy the hour, well spent with Wendy and be eagerly awaiting her next production. Brava!

Lisa Campbell

Live Podcast Taping

Comedy at Wee Johnny’s—Wee Johnny’s Irish Pub

A very cool idea brought to life by the fine folks of Hunks. Every night these rad dudes and a special guest tape a podcast and they invite us Fringers to be a part of it! It’s a good mix of comedy improv games. I really felt like I got invited to be a part of a super cool hangout. If you don’t like podcasts this show is not for you. If you came to this show expecting anything other than sitting and watching 5 people dick around for an hour, you came to the wrong show. The audience is the only thing that ruined this show for me. I was unfortunate enough to be sat next to two very drunk individuals who decided the show was not interesting enough and so proceeded to have their own conversations while kicking my chair. The rest of the bar was super loud as well. The show was great for the parts I could hear but the guys may want to throw out one or two more reminders that side conversations really aren’t the best. Nevertheless I laughed and had a good time.

Kaitlyn Kriss