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Stitch in Time: A Knitting Cabaret—MTYP Mainstage

Did you know that knitting helped to win WWII? That your roomy handbag is directly descended from the knitting bags of WWI? That there is an actual knitting disease?

Well, Stitch in Time explores the knitting history of the wars, and presents over a dozen ‘lost’ historic knitting songs. (Also there are naughty bits. Because it’s the Fringe after all.)

An evening of risqué subversion, daring dissent…and knitting. Come out and have a ‘ball’!

Comedy Clownesque

Peacock Place—MTYP Richardson Hall

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all…” (Emily Dickinson)

When Penny, a young social worker is tasked with preparing children to testify in court, she almost loses hope. With the help of a whimsical cleaning lady, and a willingness to step out of her comfort zone, she finds the answers she needs.

Cagey Productions

Pulling Pints—Warehouse

The birth of the Madchester music scene, the politics of Margaret Thatcher and the hatred of the IRA form the backdrop for this story of a naïve 23-year old Prairie boy pulling pints in a London pub.

A play 25 years in the making, from the mind of Fringe fanatic, Ken Gordon, featuring Fringe veterans Jesse Boulet, Veronica Ternopolski, Luke Falconer, Shawn Kowalke and directed by Fringe Icon Leith Clark.

We also have FREE BEER coasters and FREE temporary TATTOOS.

Winnipeg Shibari Theatre Company

340ft up close—Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall

Everything you wanted to know about shibari and tying people up but were afraid to ask. You’ve heard something about it, you may have seen it on the Internet. Here is a rare chance to get into the bedrooms and dungeons of the nation and see it live and from up close.

Last year 340ft of rope was enough. This year we will need more than that, for more fun, athleticity, (dare I say BDSM), and sensuality.

A Little Bit Off

Beau & Aero—The Playhouse Studio

Don’t miss the “show of the century!”

A Little Bit Off presents Beau & Aero…a rip-roaring slobberknocker of laughs, the likes of which you have never seen!!!

“Like watching Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd on acid (THEM, not you) or watching Lucy and Ricky on acid (YOU, not them).” Safe for kids, great for adults.

These Aviators are comic Aces!

“You’ll blow your wig!”

Don’t be a wet sock, go see Beau & Aero—it’s the cat’s pajamas. “And How!”

Two Juliets

XOXO: The Relationship Show—RRC

Do YOU kiss and tell?

Two Juliets tackles 10 monologues, 8 songs, 7 scenes, two poems, two dance breaks, two stories (about four first kisses), one epic superhero fight, one game of spin the bottle, falling in love, and breaking up, ALL IN UNDER 60 MINUTES!

This comedy cabaret explores the highs and lows of dating featuring personal experiences and anecdotes, Two Juliets combines the honesty of stand-up comedy, the theatricality of a Shakespearean tragedy and the bone-chilling horror of an R.L. Stine novel.

Ribbit RePublic

Inescapable—The Purple Room

Looking for a play—like an actual play—at this theatre festival? Award-winning playwright Martin Dockery’s Inescapable is a tight whirlwind of a thriller about two men who find themselves trapped at that annual social tar pit known as The Holiday Party.

There is a puzzle at the heart of this story of two men fighting not only to escape a never-ending moment, but to outrun a lifetime of the betrayals and deceits that can only come after a lifetime of friendship.

Martin Dockery

The Exclusion Zone—Alloway Hall (MMNM)

“The best storyteller in the U.S.” —Orlando Sentinel.

Martin Dockery returns for his 7th year in a row with a true tale of traveling to one of the most evocative places on Earth: The Exclusion Zone surrounding the melted-down nuclear reactor of Chernobyl

Hidden in the woods lies an abandoned city which Dockery explores—his guides being a cult Russian sci-fi move and a strange, obsessive book about this movie. Passionately told, Dockery spins a circular story on the very nature of art, reality, and inspiration.

The 28th Minute

Tape—Asper Centre (UofW)

Tape revolves around three characters having a mini-high school reunion of sorts in a seedy motel.

Vince convinces his old high school friend, Jon, to confess that when Jon slept with Vince’s ex-girlfriend, Amy, at their graduation party 10 years ago, he actually raped her. Vince reveals that he has been taping the entire conversation and that Amy is on her way over. Tape showcases some of Winnipeg’s up-and-coming creative talent.

SNAFU

Snack Music— Rachel Browne Th. (Crocus Bldg.)

“Smart, charming and very funny.”—Broadcast Text Reviews

“Snack Music is a fabulous puppetry-storytelling-improv-dance-music mash-up. They bring personal stories to life in a way that is both simple and simply brilliant

Ingrid, Elliott, and Andrew act out their own life stories and then invite the audience to share theirs. Their imaginative canvas seems to stretch ever larger as they make the world a better place, one connection at a time. P.S. Free Snacks!” —Montreal Rampage

“TONS OF FUN!…like something out of a Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie.—Now Magazine