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Producer’s Message......................................................................... 2 Official Greetings............................................................................ 3 Tickets & Passes.............................................................................. 4 Tips for Getting Your Fringe On........................................................ 5 Unleashing the Mad Dog of Creativity: A Quarter Century of Fringe.... 6 25 Hour Fringe................................................................................ 9 The Harry S. Rintoul Award............................................................10 Volunteer Thank You.....................................................................10 Best of Fest..................................................................................11 Friends of the Fringe.....................................................................11 Fringing at Old Market Square.......................................................12 Kids Fringe...................................................................................14 KIDS VENUE...................................................................................16 Venue 1 John Hirsch Mainstage.......................................................18 Venue 2 MTC Up the Alley...............................................................22 Venue 3 The Playhouse Studio........................................................26 Venue 4 Alloway Hall (Manitoba Museum)........................................30 Venue 5 Son of Warehouse.............................................................34 Venue 6 Tom Hendry Warehouse.....................................................38 Venue 7 The Cinematheque............................................................42 25 Karat Campaign.......................................................................46 Venue Map & Master Schedule...............................Centre Foldout 25 Years of Fringe.........................................................................47 Venue 8 The Rachel Browne Theatre................................................48 Venue 9 Shaw Performing Arts Centre (MTYP)...................................52 Venue 10 Planetarium Auditorium..................................................56 Venue 11 Red River College............................................................60 Venue 12 WAG – Muriel Richardson Auditorium................................64 Venue 13 Asper Centre for Theatre and Film (U of W)..........................68 Venue 14 The King’s Head Pub.........................................................69 Venue 15 Studio 320......................................................................70 Venue 16 PTE – Mainstage.............................................................72 Venue 17 PTE – Colin Jackson Studio................................................74 Venue 18 Gas Station Arts Centre....................................................76 Venue 19 Augustine United Church..................................................77 Venue 20 Aqua Books....................................................................78 Venue 21 Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre...........................................80 Venue 22 The Ellice Theatre............................................................82 Venue 23 West End Cultural Centre..................................................82 Venue 24 The Argue Building Youth Centre (Calvary Temple)...............82 Venue 25 Absurd Machine Studios...................................................84 Venue 26 The Folk Exchange...........................................................84 Venue 27 Rory Runnells Studio.......................................................86 Venue 28 RAW: Gallery of Architecture and Design.............................86 Venue 29 Johnny G’s Restaurant and Bar..........................................86 Venue 30 Richardson Hall (MTYP)....................................................88 Venue 31 School of Contemporary Dancers.......................................88 Staff & Volunteer Team Leaders.....................................................89 Index Title & Genre.......................................................................90 Index Company............................................................................91 Festival Partners...........................................................................92
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Wow! We are about to embark on the 25th Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival and it has been one heck of an exciting and entertaining journey so far. From the very first festival in 1988, Larry Desrochers and Rick McNair believed that a festival that allowed artists to be free to write, create and perform their work without any artistic restriction would not only result in some incredible plays but that Winnipeg’s community would enthusiastically support these artists just as they had in Edinburgh, Edmonton, Victoria and Vancouver. And, boy, were they ever right. From the beginning, the Winnipeg Fringe attracted hundreds of local, national and international artists hungry to tell their stories. Word quickly spread throughout the city and, in the end, the festival achieved the largest first-year attendance of any Canadian Fringe. Winnipeggers have continued to support the thousands of artists who have graced our stages and have helped make the Winnipeg Fringe one of the largest events of its kind in North America. This support has not gone unnoticed by the artists who continually praise our audiences for their unwavering support of independent theatre artists and their willingness to share in the experience of creating new plays. The festival is very fortunate to have enjoyed the support of hundreds of volunteers and staff over the years. Without their dedication, the festival would definitely not be the success it is today. For the past 24 years there have been almost 2,700 stories told on stage by artists and many thousands more by our audiences in line-ups, the beer tent, coffee shops, the office and the dinner table. I am so glad you’ve joined us for this very special anniversary festival and I can’t wait to hear your stories. Have fun Fringing! Chuck McEwen (now)
Chuck McEwen Executive Producer
Chuck McEwen (then)
“The closing night of the first festival, we partied long into the night – in the days when I could party long into the night – and ended up on the roof of a building in the Exchange. Ronnie Burkett was there and some staff and volunteers, and members of SAK and Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie, and as the sun came up, we just had this incredible peaceful feeling, this great feeling of accomplishment. We had artists and staff and volunteers who had brought this incredible event to life for the community. We knew it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship the Fringe would have with Winnipeg.” Larry Desrochers General Director & CEO, Manitoba Opera First Executive Producer of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival
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Welcome to the 2012 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival. Our Government understands how important arts and culture are to our communities, our identity and our economy. This is why we are pleased to support events, like the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, that bring together people of all ages and backgrounds and give them an opportunity to experience the arts. For a quarter of a century, the Fringe’s programming has contributed to the cultural and economic strength of Winnipeg. On behalf of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Government of Canada, I would like to thank all the organizers, performers and volunteers who have helped bring this event to life. Congratulations on the festival’s 25th edition!
James Moore Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages
Welcome to the 2012 Winnipeg Fringe Festival, now in its 25th year and growing stronger. This annual showcase of theatrical imagination energizes our historic Exchange District, as thousands take part in the fine art of Fringing. Known for inspiring artistic experimentation, the Fringe Festival enjoys an outstanding reputation for its quality and ability to challenge audience perceptions about the range of theatre. Visitors and locals take in a wide variety of performances that amuse, inspire, educate and confound. Congratulations to the performers, organizers, volunteers, sponsors and fans who make this extraordinary event a success every year. Our renowned community spirit always shines brightly at the annual Fringe Fest. Our government proudly supports this celebration of the wonderful world of theatre.
Flor Marcelino Minister of Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Tourism
As Mayor of Winnipeg, I am delighted to extend greetings to everyone participating in the 25th anniversary of the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival. As the second-largest Fringe Festival in North America, this event continues to be one of our City’s most popular and entertaining summer festivals as it is enjoyed by thousands of visitors each year. This festival not only allows for artistic experimentation from individuals across the globe, but grants artists the opportunity to present their work to a live audience – creating a dynamic and entertaining environment unique to the Fringe experience. Considering the fact that over 170 companies will be showing off their work at this year’s Fringe Festival, it goes without saying that Winnipeggers and visitors alike are in for a special treat with plenty of entertainment for one and all to enjoy. I wish to thank all of the volunteers and participants who contribute their time and talent year after year. Your hard work and dedication ensures the Fringe Festival is a continued success in our vibrant arts and culture city.
This year we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival! The love of theatre in Manitoba dates back to the early 1900s where more than 20 theatres, playhouses and the like lined the streets of Main, capturing audiences across Winnipeg, young and old. It is only fitting the Winnipeg Fringe Festival has made its home for the last 25 years here in our beloved Exchange District, cultural mecca of Winnipeg and heart of the theatre community. The Fringe Festival is known for breaking down boundaries between audiences, artists and performers and truly capturing the excitement of theatre to be experienced by all. The Exchange District BIZ would like to congratulate the Winnipeg Fringe Festival on this milestone, and commend the performers, volunteers and audiences on their commitment to this vibrant community we all love and know as the theatre.
Brian Timmerman Executive Director, Exchange District BIZ
For those visiting Winnipeg, I hope you take the time to experience the warm hospitality that Winnipeg offers and explore some of our City’s many attractions. You will find Winnipeg is a vibrant city offering a host of activities that I am sure you will enjoy. We truly have something for every taste and preference. On behalf of the Citizens of Winnipeg and my colleagues on City Council, I offer congratulations on your outstanding success over the past 25 years, and best wishes for many more successful years. Warm regards,
Sam Katz Mayor of Winnipeg
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Advance tickets are available as of June 20. About 50% of tickets are available in advance. You can buy tickets for any show up to four hours prior to showtime.
July 20
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Fringe Central: Tickets are available for pick-up at Fringe Central up until 4 hours prior to the performance start time. After that time, tickets must be picked up at the venue.
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FREQUENT FRINGER PASS
For only $79, you can see 10 shows and save up to $21 on the regular price of admission!
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#111 Online: winnipegfringe.com #112 Phone: 204-942-6537 or 1-877-446-4500 (toll-free) #113 In person: MTC Box Office (174 Market Ave.) ADVANCE TICKETS HOURS (MTC Box Office): #114 June 20 to July 13: 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday July 16 to July 28: 9 am to 8 #115 pm every day July 29: 9 am to 5 pm #116 Where#117 to pick up your Advance tickets can be purchased in one of three ways:
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Tickets Tickets range from $5 to $10 and can be purchased at the door or in advance. Remember, cash only at the door.
Photography Photography, including video, is prohibited at all indoor Fringe shows.
Etiquette Please remember to turn off all cell phones and other devices that beep, boop or glow. Even if you turn a phone on silent, the screen can be very bright – so, please, no texting either. Theatres have amazing acoustics, which means that even if you’re whispering, your voice will carry. Please respect the artists and your fellow audience members by saving conversations for the end of the show.
Fringing on a budget Tickets are amazingly affordable but you’ll see more shows if you stretch your budget. Many companies offer discounts for Fringers (matinees, students, seniors, etc.) so check the program carefully. We also recommend keeping an eye out for 2 for $10 deals on the website and highlighted yellow in this program. If you plan on Fringing as much as possible, a Frequent Fringer Pass or a Buddy Pass is a wise investment.
Arrive early. No latecomers! There’s no late seating at the Fringe because it’s too disruptive. We have to keep things running on time. (No, there are never exceptions.) The festival runs on official Fringe time – available at the Info Tent, the venues or any MTS cell phone.
A note to parents The performers classify their own shows. As a parent, you know your child best, so we encourage you to read the play descriptions carefully and make note of content warnings/age restrictions before taking young Fringers to shows.
Check out winnipegfringe.com The Fringe website is a one-stop shop for hectic festival-goers. Whether you’re buying tickets or planning your day at Old Market Square, bookmark winnipegfringe.com and visit often. The website lists any changes/cancellations and is a great source of info such as Outdoor Stage schedules, 2 for $10 deals and the Best of Fest announcement. This year, the Fringe has a new mobile website! Use your smartphone for tickets and information on the go. Take advantage of the free Wi-Fi in Old Market Square.
Join the conversation online Get your Fringe on in cyberspace! Share your stories with fellow Fringers on Facebook and Twitter. Reminisce about your favourite Fringe memories. Participate in social media contests like Fringe Photos on the Fly and Rapid Reviews for a chance to win fabulous prizes!
Spend time at Old Market Square (corner of King St. & Bannatyne Ave.) Thousands of Fringers soak in the sights and sounds of Old Market Square and for good reason. The Square is where Fringers meet to shop, eat and enjoy the incredible acts on the MTS Outdoor Stage. There are also countless attractions for the young ones at Kids Fringe on Arthur Street.
Pass the Hat Street performers are extremely skilled entertainers who perform all over the Fringe site. However, their only source of income is what their impromptu audiences donate after the show. After enjoying the spectacle, please show your appreciation by tossing a fiver – or any amount you want – into the hat.
Finding Your Way Around This program contains a user-friendly venue and site map that will point you in the right direction. The Fringe website has a handy parking map and other resources to help you find your way.
Need help? The friendly folks at the Info Tent (Old Market Square) and the Info Centre at Fringe Central (MTC lobby, 174 Market Ave.) are happy to answer your questions. If you’re not on site, please call the Fringe Hotline at 204-943-7464.
Lost and found If you lose something at any Fringe venue, a lost and found is available at the Info Centre (Fringe Central).
www.facebook.com/WinnipegFringe
www.twitter.com/WinnipegFringe #wpgfringe
Word of mouth It’s not all in the review – reviews are only one way to find the hot shows. Keep your ears tuned to word of mouth and go see the shows that your fellow Fringers are talking about. Furthermore – go see the shows you want to see. Read the show descriptions in this program or on the website and trust your instincts. Then, tell others about the shows you loved! all photos this page by leif norman
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A Quarter Century of
Fringe
Twenty-five years ago, in the summer of 1988, the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival took its first bow in the Exchange District with five indoor venues, an outdoor stage and 47 performing companies. The event was the brainchild of Fringe Executive Producer Larry Desrochers and MTC Artistic Director Rick McNair, who had experienced Fringe Festivals elsewhere and were frequently engaged in conversations about theatre and the community. In his Artistic Director’s notes in the 1988 program, Rick summed up his Fringe philosophy: “Sometimes we forget that the art of theatre is too important, too alive to be locked inside buildings called theatres. It requires people to make it breathe. It requires a connection to the community from which it grows.”
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Larry spent time in Edmonton during their 1987 Fringe Festival, and came up with a game plan to bring a Fringe to Winnipeg. With the support of MTC General Manager Zaz Bajon and the MTC board, Larry and Rick were joined by 11 eclectic Fringe staff who poured their passion and hard work into the project and brought the festival to life. “There was a lot of excitement in the theatre community about Winnipeg having a festival, but there was a lot of explaining to the general public of the concept,” Larry says about the first Fringe. “Sometimes during the afternoon shows in the Square there were more volunteers than audience members, but the festival gained momentum throughout the week. It seemed to unleash a mad dog of creativity.” “On my way to MTC at 6 am on opening day of the first Fringe, I cycled through Osborne Village with tears in my eyes,” recalls original Fringe Publicist Blair Cosgrove. “The sun was out, the Free Press had given us a full-page cover story and I was very emotional because I knew it would be a success and would change Winnipeg’s summers.” This page, left: MTC Artistic Director Rick McNair addresses a crowd at the 1988 Winnipeg Fringe Festival. Below: Winnipeg entertainer Al Simmons performs for a crowd at the opening of the 1999 festival in Old Market Square. Right: The 28-page 1988 festival program. (See page 49 of this program for all 25 of our festival program covers.) Opposite page: The 1988 Fringe staff (left to right): Robert Mravnik (Production Assistant – Technical), Blair Cosgrove (Publicist), Yvette Nolan (Production Assistant – Administration), Larry Desrochers (Executive Producer), Tim Babcock (Production Coordinator), Liane Davidson (Volunteer Coordinator), Alfred Jarwsiewicz (Production Technician) and Thomas Reid (Production Assistant – Communications). Photo by Keith Rach
By the end of the first Fringe, 30,000 people had come out, higher than any inaugural Fringe Festival in North America (the record still stands!). The key to its success came down to two things: a passionate and loyal audience, and a group of artists eager for a platform to experiment and grow. “[The Fringe] is the very essence of creativity in theatre in that anyone can participate if they desire,” says actor, director and playwright Sharon Bajer. “I think audiences love it so much because they get to see things that may surprise them and the spirit that’s generated during the festival is unlike anything else.” Original Fringe Production Coordinator Tim Babcock agrees. “One of the things that I found most striking was the wide range of folks who came together for theatre in our town,” he says. “Sometimes we found entirely new audiences. At the time I called it theatre evangelism, and despite the size of the festival and the advent of all the other changes, I like to think there is still an element of that in the current festival.”
“The Fringe Festival was where I directed my first play, where I wrote my first one-person show and where I felt encouraged to take risks in theatre. It was the learning and testing ground for stretching myself as an artist and exposing me to other artists and their work from across the country.
The Fringe has played a part in the careers of many local actors, directors and playwrights who made their debuts at the festival. “I am a playwright because of the Fringe,” says Yvette Nolan, who was a Production Assistant for the first Fringe. “I was a theatre rat, but after watching all that work, all those plays and sketches and engagements with the audience, indoors and out – well, I thought, surely I can do that. And I started writing my first play, which I directed. And as a result of that play, BLADE, Harry Rintoul commissioned me to write something for Theatre Projects Manitoba. Voila! I was a playwright.” “Harry Rintoul had to explain to me what a Fringe Festival was,” remembers playwright and actor Ellen Peterson. “I was fresh out of university [in 1988] and he cast me in his play refugees … The Fringe has done a lot for my life as an artist, giving me opportunities and an audience I never could have created for myself. That’s where we cut our teeth.” For many artists and audience members, the fact that the Fringe breaks down barriers between artists and the audience is what makes the event so special. The spirit of the Fringe keeps people coming back, year after year. “The Fringe always reminds me that theatre is supposed to be fun and gets me back to the roots of why I devoted my life to it in the first place,” says Sharon. “There is an immediate connection with the audience that you don’t get to experience at any other time in the season.”
“Like most births, it was exhausting, exhilarating, terrifying, thrilling. Didn’t expect that baby to be that big or that healthy on arrival. I learned almost everything I know about management, arts administration and service to a community from those early years at the Winnipeg Fringe.” Yvette Nolan on the creation of the first Winnipeg Fringe
“I remember standing in the rain in the Square listening to the speeches on opening day in 1988 and thinking: ‘This can’t work.’ I was never so thrilled to be so wrong.” Ellen Peterson Playwright and actor
“Launching the Fringe will always be the most fun I ever had. It was the first ‘unequivocal’ accomplishment of my young career and it was a team effort by talented, motivated and supportive people who knew how to work well together to create something that Winnipeggers would love.” Blair Cosgrove Publicist for the first Winnipeg Fringe
“Part of our original mandate was to provide Winnipeg performers with an opportunity to see what other artists across the country and the world were doing and to interact with them and help to broaden their ideas about theatre. I think this has been one of the truly great successes of the festival and one of the benefits it has brought to Winnipeg.” Tim Babcock, U of W Chair of Theatre and Film Production Coordination at the first Winnipeg Fringe
Sharon Bajer Actor, director and playwright
“Year one, we had Ronnie Burkett doing Fool’s Edge in the Cauldron, and I was answering the phone at MTC to some elderly man yelling at me, ‘Yeah, how do I get tickets to that dirty puppet show?’” Yvette Nolan
“You’re at the end of the line.” My brother and I looked at each other. We’re good Canadians. We know how to queue properly. We looked back at him, puzzled. “Ah! You don’t understand. Let me explain. There’s a volunteer walking the line, counting the number of people waiting to buy tickets. The Chinese Cultural Centre holds 300 people. By the volunteer’s count, my friend here is number 299; I’m number 300 … And you’re at the end of the line.” Brian Carroll Longtime Fringer
“I remember the electricity we felt as our walkie talkies crackled with news of the first lineups in The Cauldron and Chinese Cultural Centre, and then our first show sellouts late at night. And when the police had to quickly close Bannatyne and Albert streets due to the crowds, that’s when we became a phenomenon.” Blair Cosgrove
“Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie and SAK Theatre [were billeting] in my house in Fort Rouge. With my roommates, there were about 11 of us living there. People were sleeping in closets.” Yvette Nolan
“I think the Fringe is a great cultural event because it offers entertainment [to everyone] from kids to seniors. The diverse shows offer something for everyone from classical to improv. Winnipeggers have a place to get together and support the arts and have some entertainment on a casual basis.” Nick Kowalchuk Executive Director of the Gas Station Arts Centre Former Fringe Executive Producer
A crowd being entertained in Old Market Square at the 1990 Winnipeg Fringe Festival. Photo by Debbie Williamson
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“The event has touched so many people that it has now become something that many more can feel a part of and the fact that such a wide audience now considers the Fringe an integral part of their summer has to be a hugely positive consequence of the festival’s growth and success.” Tim Babcock
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Kick-off Show 11 am, Saturday, July 21 at the Tom Hendry Warehouse
Peter ‘n Chris Peter ‘n Chris and the Mystery of the Hungry Heart Motel Fringe Overnight Midnight, Saturday, July 21–Noon, Sunday, July 22 at the Tom Hendry Warehouse
SEE EIGHT GREAT PERFORMANCES
25 HOUR FRINGE PASSES & TICKETS
big word performance poetry
We’ve made it easy for you to Fringe for 25 hours straight, or to rest up during the day and then hunker down at the Tom Hendry Warehouse for eight great shows from midnight to noon!
jem rolls: TEN STARTS AND AN END
Passes are limited, so buy yours early or risk missing out!
CRUMBS
25 Hour Pass $112.50
Tonight Only
Valid for 16 shows over 25 hours. Includes tickets to 7 shows of your choice*, the Kick-Off Show and Fringe Overnight.
Hot Thespian Action
*Visit winnipegfringe.com or contact Fringe Advance Tickets for details.
Body Language
Pi: The Physical Comedy Troupe The Good, The Bad, and The Stupid
Ryan Gladstone No Tweed Too Tight
Ten Thousand Wolves Leave the Radio On
Fringe Overnight Pass $60 Includes tickets to Fringe Overnight and the Kick-Off Show at 11 am. Passes on sale: 9 am, Wednesday, June 27 How to buy: In person at the MTC Box Office at 174 Market Avenue
or by phone at 204-942-6537
Single tickets at the door $10 A minimum of 10 single tickets will be available for purchase at the door for each overnight 25 Hour Fringe performance. Single tickets go on sale 15 minutes before each performance. Cash only at the door.
Ten Foot Pole Productions Big In Germany
TJ Dawe Medicine
mature audience • under 18 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language • gunshots
For complete 25 Hour Fringe details and schedule, go to winnipegfringe.com or contact Fringe Advance Tickets at 204-942-6537. 9
Harry Rintoul
The Harry S. Rintoul Memorial Award for Best New Manitoban Play at the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival presented an award for Best New Manitoban Play to honour the memory of one of its members. Harry Rintoul was a leading playwright and the founding Artistic Director of Theatre Projects Manitoba, and this award celebrates what Harry felt most passionately about: new plays, written and produced in the community. Harry made his mark at the first Fringe in 1988 with refugees.
2011 Harry S. Rintoul Memorial Award recipients Jessy Ardern and Ariel Levine (Sigurd the Dragonslayer) with MAP Coordinator Rory Runnells. photo by leif norman
During the festival, theatre professionals jury the entries. When the award is presented at the MTS Outdoor Stage on the festival’s closing night, the winner receives $500 from MAP and a 2013 Superpass donated by the Fringe. Last year, the award was presented to Jessy Ardern and Ariel Levine for their play Sigurd the Dragonslayer.
The Winnipeg Fringe has always been a place where theatre artists are given the opportunity to experiment and develop their craft. Manitoban playwrights Rick Chafe, Yvette Nolan and Ian Ross all had their first productions at the festival. Since 2002, the Manitoba Association of Playwrights (MAP) has
Donations for the Rintoul Award can be sent to: Manitoba Association of Playwrights, 503-100 Arthur St., Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3. A portion of the proceeds from The Distance Between Trees (page 88 of this program), an unfinished play by Harry, completed and presented by LineaR Productions, will be donated to MAP for the award.
Thank you to all of our volunteers, past and present, for making the Winnipeg Fringe such a success over the past 25 years! Our volunteers are invaluable! Thanks to their efforts, we’ve been able to put Winnipeg on the map as North America’s second-largest Fringe Festival with an annual attendance of more than 160,000 enthusiastic Fringe fans. The countless hours put in by our volunteers have made our festival a record-breaking success, and we are grateful for their contributions. The Fringe Festival relies on the help of more than 800 dedicated volunteers who donate over 17,000 hours over the course of the festival, creating an enjoyable festival experience for patrons and performers alike. We cannot thank these committed and talented volunteers enough. We’d like to offer special thanks to those volunteers who exceeded expectations and completed 10 or more shifts in 2011: Shibashis Bal Lisa Barron Richard Benoit Kim Berard Barb Buffington Nicole Cote Logan Delaronde Kaitlyn Douglas Maureen Flaherty
Christine Freeman Sara Greenfield Jocelyn Guenter Bill Harper Betty Gauley Renton Goodwyn Bill Harper Gail Harper Davin King
Brian Langlotz Rick Loftson William Martin Aileen McKendry Nhan Nguyen Conrad Padilla William Paquette Daniel Piche Warren Redhead
Morley Rypp Shirley Rypp Jon Seguire Patricia Shalley Klaus Tibelius Debbie-Lee Voth Jeremy Wiebe Guy Wood
If you’d like to be a Fringe volunteer next year, please visit winnipegfringe.com or drop by the Volunteer Hospitality Centre (174 Market Ave.) during the festival.
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For the past 25 years, Fringe performers have been making their mark, entertaining the masses with comedy, drama, dance, improv and more. Since 2002, Best of Fest has given audiences an extra chance to catch the most popular Fringe shows while rewarding performers for a job well done. On Sunday, July 29, we’ve left two spots open at venues 1–12 and one in the Kids Venue. The companies at each venue with the highest ticket sales and popular momentum are awarded an additional show on the last day of the festival. As a bonus, Best of Fest is a great way to show your support for the Fringe – it’s a fundraiser, with 50% of revenue going to the festival, and 50% to the performing company. Advance tickets for Best of Fest go on sale after the top-selling shows are announced on Thursday, July 26. All Best of Fest tickets will be available in advance, so make sure to get yours before they disappear! A list of the winning companies will be posted on the Fringe website
photo by leif norman
as well as at various locations around the festival site. Tickets to all Best of Fest shows are $10. Use the power of your voice and share your list of festival must-sees with your fellow Fringers. That way, you help the performers achieve Best of Fest and Fringe fans have one last chance to treat themselves to shows that stand out from the rest!
Friends of the Fringe We thank the following Fringe Friends for Getting Their Fringe On in a, y’know, philanthropic way (May 26, 2011–June 1, 2012) Fringe Phenoms Susan Algie & James Wagner Gail Asper & Michael Paterson Bill Cechvala & Marie Berry Graham & Linda Connor Kerry Dangerfield FPS Psychological Health Services In honour of Jim Gibbs & Sharon Greening – L. Blair Philpott & Tom Kynman Investors Group Rick Lee & Laurie Shapiro Hope McIntyre Wayne & Linda Paquin Greg Simeonidis Terry Tully Ms. Julie Wegner Joan Wright Anonymous Fringe Fanatics Robert Basham Karla Berbrayer & Allen Kraut In memory of Gary Brabant Don & Carolyne Campbell Barbara Donovan & Chris Johnson Jemara Fay In memory of Linda Fletcher – Patty Cochrane Pravin Hingwala Mary & Michael Kinnear Alfonz Koncan
Karen O’Brien David & Lynn Pate In memory of Will Rothney – Bill & Pat Reid Robert Schuppel Jon Seguire In memory of Dr. Harvey Spiegel – Kayla Gordon & Art Maister, Dan Morrow, Dr. Steven & Sharon Tritt Shelley Stroski James Tam Leslee Watt Fringe Friends Ron Adamik Susan Andrusco Mr. Tim Babcock In memory of Carol Batchelor Dundas – Caren Dundas Anne Belanger Bonnie Blakley Ingrid Bolbecher Stephanie Bortolot Maike Bossert Catherine Brandt Carol Budnick In memory of John G. Campbell Scott Cann Tristan Carlucci Brenlee Carrington Trepel John Chabai
In memory of Rene Chammartin Cheryl M. Chase Lawrie Cherniack In memory of Michael Clarke – Evan Pritchard Cathy Collins Kathy & David Connor Jon Cooper Allison Cotton & Jim Gladstone Mr. James Cromwell Brian & Barbara Crow James Currie Gregg Dale Dave Didluck Joan Farnfield Catharine Ferguson In memory of Linda Fletcher – Kenneth C. Cochrane Karen Gander Michelle Georgi John Gill Mr. Bill Gillis Barbara Goldman Ken & Carla Goldstein Ms. Jeannette Golletz Jeremy & Maureen Gordon Ken Gordon Amy Goulet Ms. Linda Graham Beau Hajavitch Rose Harrison Lisa Hastings Bill Heywood Vivian Hilder-Skwark Lisa Holowchuk Elizabeth Hopkins Trucia Howard Richard & Karen Howell Judy Inglis Wanda Jones Elissavet Kardami Peter Kidd & Caryn Douglas Krtistian Klippenstein Silvester Komlodi
For more information call 204-943-7464, visit the Info Tent (Old Market Square) or Fringe Central (174 Market Avenue) and we’re always available in cyberspace at winnipegfringe.com.
Bradley Krentz Charlotte Kroeker R. & J. Lewis Patricia Ling Kerri Lipischak Danica Lister In memory of S. Lucas – Marcia Martino Sharon M. Macdonald Jim MacNair Mikel Magnusson B. Makodanski Jure Manfreda Frank & Terry Martin In memory of John Maw & William Maw – Elizabeth Maw Geri McGrath & Anne Bolten Betty McInerney Lesley McKenzie Mr. John McLeod Gordon Meads John Melnick Ricki Miles Jocelyn A. Millard Celoris Miller Laura Morton Shelley Muir Stephen Muirhead Harry Nelken & Cynthia Newman Cindy Newfield In memory of Lucy Nolan – Patricia E. Moses Ms. Claire Ogden Rhiannon Orloff Cindy Ou Norma Owens Mrs. Joy Papineau James E. Parker Bev Passey D. Penley Bethany Phillips Karen Phillips Barbara Popel K. Heather Power & Harold Klause Tiffany Prochera
Ruth Prokesch Ms. Judith Putter Kim Ranson Bev Ridd Cathie S. D. Saloranta Jim Sankey & Sylvia Fisher Joff Schmidt Tamara Selene Mares Rob Shaw Cal Shell Eileen Shewchuk Lillian Smith Geri & Peter Spencer Deanne & Harvey Spiegel In memory of Dr. Harvey Spiegel – Sandy & Murray Hyma, Esther & Jeff Spiegel Aixa Stafforini Frank Stanchell Kelly Stifora Janet Taylor Ross & BJ Taylor Emily & Nick Ternette Barbara Toews Nelson Tomsic Bonnie Tregobov Angela Van der Meer Daniel Vandale Jocelyn VanKoughnet Steve Venner Veralyn R. Warkentin Laura Weir Mary Agnes Welch Terry Wiebe Mark Wiese Peter Wilk & Lisa Springer Dr. M.J. WIllard Don Windsor Val Wood Louise Worster Anonymous (9)
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FRINGING STAGES ON THE STREET Admission: Pass the Hat
Old Market Square is the heart of the festival.
For entertainment you can’t see anywhere else, visit the performer circles on Albert and Arthur. All day long, street performers from across the country and around the world step into the spotlight to thrill and amaze! For these multi-talented performers (as well as those on the MTS Outdoor Stage), their only source of income is what their spur-of-the-moment audiences donate after the show. Please show your appreciation by tossing some cash into the hat.
Home to amazing acts and a variety of outstanding attractions, the Outdoor Site buzzes with activity from noon to midnight. Shop for eye-catching clothing and unique gifts, snack on delectable delights from a variety of vendors and chill out to the non-stop entertainment on the MTS Outdoor Stage.
Satisfy your cravings with delicious offerings from food vendors in Old Market Square. Whether you’re hankering for a sweet treat or looking to wet your whistle, there’s no shortage of options. The Beer Tent and the Liquor Marts Patio are perfect meeting places for friends and fellow Fringers to talk about plays while enjoying refreshments and the outdoor entertainment.
INFORMATION CENTRAL
UNIQUE TREASURES AND FANTASTIC FINDS Trade in your mall experience for an outdoor shopping spree, set against the historic backdrop of the Exchange District. During the festival, browse Vendor Alley on Albert and Arthur streets as merchants display an intriguing selection of original jewellery, striking clothing and one-of-a-kind gifts.
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FRINGE FLAVOURS
For all things Fringe, visit the Info Tent at Old Market Square. Stock up on Fringe merchandise, purchase a program or get some cash from the ATM. Check the daily schedule outside the tent to find out which shows are coming up and which are sold out. Friendly Fringe volunteers are on hand to answer all of your questions and queries, so stop by and say hi. all photos this page by leif norman
Check winnipegfringe.com for up-to-the-minute
9 pm Feature Bands schedules
Cannon Bros. The Liptonians
Pi
Mad Young Darlings SitDownTracy Romi Mayes The Empty Standards The JD Edwards Band Lindsey White
The Liptonians
ONSTAGE SPECTACLE Admission: Pass the Hat You never know what you might see at the MTS Outdoor Stage! From fire juggling and impromptu dance parties to incredible live music and amazing feats of daring, the Outdoor Stage has something for everyone.
Mariachi Ghost M達s Headspace The Perms
Kick back in the beer tent or dance until you drop when the featured band takes the stage, every evening at 9 pm. Check out winnipegfringe.com for performer info and schedules.
Lindsey White Lords of Strut The Exchange District BIZ gets their Fringe on for a noon-hour entertainment series every weekday, featuring international street performers, acclaimed Winnipeg musicians and more!
cannon bros.
Wednesday, July 18
Those Guys Thursday, July 19
Circus Firemen Friday, July 20
Sweet Alibi Monday, July 23
Cannon Bros. Tuesday, July 24
Circus Firemen
The Dirty Catfish Brass Band Wednesday, July 25
Aerial Angels Thursday, July 26
Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk Friday, July 27
Lords of Strut
Thursday, July 19 to Sunday, July 29 Noon to 6 pm, Arthur Street
Celebrate 25 years of Fringe with Captain Braggadocio and his team! For the last 13 years, Kids Fringe has been the hub for kid-friendly entertainment at the Fringe. Along with a petting zoo, face painting and balloons, Kids Fringe offers a free theatre activity centre for kids and their families. For a full schedule of activities, visit winnipegfringe.com. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. all photos this spread by leif norman
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YAP Theatre
African Folktales with Erik de Waal
Cape Town, South Africa
by Erik de Waal
www.yaptheatre.co.za
211 Bannatyne Ave. (Crocus Building) | Enter from parking lot on Main St.
SCHOOL of CONTEMPORARY DANCERS
The hit show returns with BRAND NEW stories. 250,000 kids on five continents can’t be wrong. Talking giraffes, zany zebras, galumphing elephants and much more magic. African folktales come to vibrant life through storytelling, puppetry, physical comedy and lots of laughs. HHHHH “It’s superb. Don’t miss it.” – CBC HHHHH “A children’s show doesn’t get better than this.” – Edmonton Journal
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #3306 20 #3308 21 #3313 22 #3322
5:30 pm
26 #3342 27 #3344 28 #3353 29
5:30 pm 11:00 am
4:15 pm 11:00 am 4:00 pm
$10
$5
tickets
kids (12 & under)
WARNING
gunshots
song & flight
Ant!
Winnipeg, MB Ant gets lost at the mall and finds himself in a strange new world full of odd creatures and great mystery. Now he must summon all his courage to find his way home … if he can. Come and help our hero find his way back to his family and friends; he cannot do it alone. How did he get lost? Does he make it home? There’s only one way to find out – okay, there are a few, but come see the show.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #3303 20 #3311 21
Sunday 22 #3318
12:45 pm 6:00 pm
11:00 am
23 #3326 24
25 #3335 26
27 #3348 28 #3351 29 #3358
2:30 pm
12:45 pm
5:45 pm 12:45 pm 4:45 pm
$8
$5
tickets
kids (12 & under)
16
45 min
family friendly • babes in arms permitted
WARNING
chalk dust
Real Live Entertainment
Dr. Sprocket’s Incredible Storytelling Machine
Steinbach, MB
REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY: Test subjects for amazing, new, perfect, storytelling machine experiment. No experience required! Apply in person at times listed. Disclaimer: Real Live Entertainment is in no way responsible for any harm resulting from the actions of Dr. Sprocket. Exposure to the machine can result in laughter, capering, hijinxs and antics. Subjects sitting in the front row may be required for hands-on participation. Not suitable for children over the age of 90 or with weak bladders.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #3304 20 #3312 21 #3315 22
2:15 pm
7:30 pm
2:15 pm
23 #3327 24
25 #3338 26 #3339 27 #3346 28
29 #3359
4:00 pm
6:00 pm 11:00 am 2:15 pm
6:15 pm
$9
$5
tickets
kids (12 & under) wearing woot.com shirt
45 min
family friendly
Monster Theatre for Kids Vancouver, BC
by Tara Travis
venue sponsor
45 min
family friendly • babes in arms permitted
Lavinia: A Modern Fairy Tale of Gigantic Proportions 120
1:00 pm 11:00 am 6:00 pm
23 #3328 24 #3329 25
www.monstertheatre.com
Back by popular demand! Lavinia. Eight years old. Eight feet tall. A giant imagination and a giant heart. Join her hilarious adventure and meet everyone from Muffles the cat to Porchenko the microscopic warrior. Battle the crabdragon, save the land of Bukva and find a place where everyone belongs. HHHHH – Winnipeg Free Press HHHH “Travis keeps audiences of all sizes hooked with her charmingly sheepish demeanour, exaggerated physical antics, eccentric puppet friends and unexpected guest stars.” – Winnipeg Sun Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #3243 25
8:30 pm
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #3218 20 #3214 21 #3218 22 #3226
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #3331 25
26 #3341 27 #3349 28 #3350 29 #3356
2:30 pm
2:30 pm
3:45 pm
$10
Highlighted Performances offer a 2 for $10 ticket price
7:00 pm
5:30 pm 12:00 pm 2:15 pm
26
27 #3265 28 #3268 29
10:30 pm 3:30 pm
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #3305 20 #3309 21 #3314 22 #3321
tickets
$5
2:30 pm 12:30 pm 4:15 pm 7:15 pm 11:00 am 1:00 pm
kids (12 & under)
family friendly • under 3 not admitted
60 min
Knavish Hedgehog Productions
The Tempest
Winnipeg, MB
by William Shakespeare Wednesday Thursday 18 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #3307 21 #3317 22 #3320
23
24 #3330 25 #3337 26 #3340 27 #3347 28
29 #3357
12:30 pm 4:00 pm 12:30 pm 3:45 pm
2:45 pm
11:00 am 5:30 pm
$7
$5
tickets
2:15 pm
kids (12 & under)
75 min
family friendly • babes in arms permitted
“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight …” Welcome to a magical tale of sorcery and storms, of fairies and beasts, of fools and fantasy, and of young love and old betrayals. Marooned on an island with his daughter Miranda, Prospero has perfected his magical arts. Now he seizes the chance to escape, and seeks vengeance on those who stole his dukedom. Youth troupe The Knavish Hedgehogs presents Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Puppy Productions
Top Dog
Winnipeg, MB
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
by Janice Salkeld Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #3302 20
11:00 am
Saturday Sunday 21 #3316 22 #3323
3:45 pm
7:30 pm
23 #3325 24 #3332 25 #3334 26 #3343 27
28 #3354 29
12:45 pm 4:15 pm 11:00 am 5:45 pm
5:30 pm
$5
tickets family friendly • babes in arms permitted
With the snap of a shiny kitchen utensil and the flick of a colourful hat, four characters use clowning, physical theatre and sound/rhythm to transition from self-absorption to a greater understanding of the world – and their ability to change it! A comedic and heartwarming journey of what it means to be a friend and to give and ask for forgiveness. Directed by Brenda McLean and featuring Delf Gravert, Micheal Long, Kaitlynn Porath and Heather Russell.
60 min
Merlyn Productions
The World of The Brothers Grimm
Winnipeg, MB
Adapted from Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Carolyn Lane
www.merlyn.biz Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #3301 19
6:00 pm
Friday Saturday 20 #3310 21
Sunday 22 #3319
4:15 pm
12:30 pm
23 #3324 24 #3333 25 #3336 26
27 #3345 28 #3352 29
11:00 am 6:00 pm
12:30 pm 2:15 pm
$9
tickets
2:15 pm
$5
kids (12 & under) • Fringe volunteers
family friendly • babes in arms permitted
The stories of King Thrushbeard, The Fisherman and His Wife and The Elves and The Shoemaker come to life through the magic of live theatre and storytelling! With twists of comedy and audience participation, Grimm’s characters learn valuable lessons while all three classic fairy tales resolve in a happy ending. From the producer of Cinderella! Cinderella! (HHHH, 2009 Best of Fest) and Snow White the Comedy.
SCHOOL of CONTEMPORARY DANCERS
Tuesday 17
211 Bannatyne Ave. (Crocus Building) | Enter from parking lot on Main St.
Monday 16
60 min
120
Contest open to kids 12 & under
was the story interesting?
Were there any cool costumes or special effects?
Who was your favourite character?
what did you like best about the show?
So tell us what you think about the plays you see and you could win the Grand Prize! After attending a show at the Kids Venue, pick up an entry form at the box office or the Info Tent and write your own review.
You could win the grand prize: • 2 tickets to every show in the Kids Venue • An awesome Kids Fringe t-shirt at the 2013 Fringe Festival
venue
174 Market Ave. | Enter from back alley (John Hirsch Pl.)
JOHN HIRSCH MAINSTAGE
1
> Sum of Its Parts
The Ballad of Herbie Cox
Melbourne, Australia
by Victoria Chiu & Roland Cox
www.myspace.com/co.sumofitsparts
Nothing can prepare you for the future. Professional dancers Victoria Chiu and Roland Cox, who have worked extensively across Europe and Australia, bring a true story of heart, hardship, death and new life. A mixture of dance, music and storytelling. Dark family secrets unravel in this bizarre and brave new work.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #110 20
11:15 pm 2:00 pm 12:00 pm
10:30 pm 8:45 pm 12:00 pm
$10
tickets
$9
students • seniors • kids (12 & under) Fringe performers
60 min
general audience
The Musical Theatre Company
Bare
Winnipeg, MB A group of high school seniors at a Catholic boarding school face issues of sexuality and personal identity as they struggle to come to terms with who they are and who the world thinks they should be. They seek answers from their church, their friends and, ultimately, from within themselves. “Edgy, thought-provoking musical that explores some very deep issues. Catholic school never sounded so good.” – Jenny Sandman, CurtainUp
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
16
17
23
24 #143 25
18
Thursday
$10
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
19 #108 20 #114 21 #118 22 #126
7:00 pm
5:30 pm 12:00 pm 2:15 pm
26
27 #165 28 #168 29
8:30 pm
10:30 pm 3:30 pm
tickets 105 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language
Ten Foot Pole Productions Toronto, ON www.tenfootpole.ca
Alex and Bruce: rock stars in Germany, unknowns in Toronto, where they have to work in porn to pay the bills. But they’re gonna be Canada’s next rock icons, as long as this show doesn’t bankrupt them first! A hilarious screwball rock ‘n’ roll bromantic comedy about friendship, fame and following your dreams from the creator of the Fringe hits Balls (HHHH½ – Winnipeg Sun) and F**king Stephen Harper (Best of Fest 2010, HHHH – CBC).
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #107 20
5:15 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #124 22
11:30 pm
23 #136 24 #139 25 #147 26
27 #162 28 #170 29
9:15 pm
5:15 pm
$10
1:45 pm
3:30 pm
8:00 pm
tickets 60 min
mature audience
WARNING
language
The Birdmann
The BIRDMANN in Events of Momentous Timing
Surfers Paradise, Australia
by The Birdmann
18
8:00 pm
26 #158 27 #164 28 #166 29
by Rob Salerno
venue sponsor
4:00 pm
23 #132 24 #138 25
Big In Germany
275
Saturday Sunday 21 #120 22 #129
www.thebirdmann.com.au
The man like no man is back in a fascinating indie film noir live action one-man murder mystery of exhilarating flashbacks in a genre-defying journey of comedy, magic and mayhem from an internationally infamous vaudevillian. HHHH “One-man show like no other” – CBC 2011 HHHH “Fringe show like no other” – VUE Weekly 2011 HHHH “Off-the-wall Fringe show” – Edmonton Sun 2011 HHHH “Genius”– Free Press 2011 Pick of the Victoria Fringe (Comedy 2011)
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #102 19
Friday Saturday 20 #113 21
Sunday 22 #125
23
24 #142 25 #151 26 #153 27 #159 28 #171 29
8:45 pm
3:45 pm
12:30 pm
6:45 pm 11:00 pm 1:45 pm 12:00 pm 9:45 pm
$10
tickets general audience
winnipegfringe.com
60 min
Keystone Theatre
The Last Man on Earth
Toronto, ON
Co-created by the Keystone Theatre Ensemble
www.keystonetheatre.net Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #109 20 #117 21 #122 22
9:30 pm 11:15 pm 7:45 pm 1:45 pm
$10
3:30 pm 12:00 pm 5:15 pm
“The performers are brilliant. The Last Man on Earth is art, pure and simple.” – Gary Smith, The Hamilton Spectator
tickets 60 min
general audience
little lady
LITTLE LADY
Las Vegas, NV
by Sandrine Lafond
www.littlelady.org Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #104 20 #116 21 #119 22 #128
23
24 #141 25
26 #156 27 #161 28
29 #175
5:15 pm
7:00 pm
4:45 pm
12:00 pm 9:45 pm
$10
tickets
$5
gfeneral audience
3:45 pm
2:30 pm
6:30 pm
kids (12 & under)
45 min
The transformation from Cirque du Soleil performer and Celine Dion dancer to performer-generated theater artist is mirrored in this dark, comic and, at times, grotesque fable about our modern obsession with image. The exquisite movement skills of Lafond juxtapose with the world of distortion and manipulation accentuating LITTLE LADY’s tormented and blissful metamorphosis.
JOHN HIRSCH MAINSTAGE
28 #167 29
7:30 pm
1
174 Market Ave. | Enter from back alley (John Hirsch Pl.)
23 #135 24 #140 25 #145 26 #155 27
The Devil and his minion plot to corrupt the last vestige of innocence on earth. Underdog Gormless Joe must play the hero or lose everything, including his one chance at love. Award-winning Keystone Theatre brings a new play in the style of a silent film to the stage.
venue
Festival Favourite Award – Frigid Festival, New York
275
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venue
174 Market Ave. | Enter from back alley (John Hirsch Pl.)
JOHN HIRSCH MAINSTAGE
1
Shoestring
Mary & Martha
Winnipeg, MB
by Veralyn Warkentin Set in Winnipeg in 1959, the play tells us about life in a house (Maedchenheim) for young Mennonite girls. These homes were temporary residences which provided a safe environment where the girls could share similar experiences. Our story, however, explores a time of change, conflict and upheaval for the church, the girls and their caregivers.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 #103 19 #106 20
10:30 pm 3:15 pm
5:45 pm
23 #131 24
25 #150 26 #157 27
28 #169 29
12:00 pm
9:00 pm
6:00 pm
$8
“I cried – that was the way it was for us.” – an elderly Mennonite woman at MAP studio reading of Mary & Martha
tickets
$6
8:30 pm
matinees • students
One Bird Walking Theatre
The Plague Doctor’s Daughter
Winnipeg, MB
by J.G. Sturko
Fourteenth century Europe: the plague arrives in Italy and begins to decimate her population. Cities and towns commission plague doctors to tend to the inflicted, hiring anyone willing to take the job. Signore Lassandri, a livery worker, signs on, but before he can begin his duties, he dies. His daughter Enza, desperate to stay in the home her father acquired with the position, assumes his role but as women were forbidden to doctor, she must do so in disguise.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday 18
Thursday
Friday
Sunday
1:45 pm
9:30 pm
23 #134 24 #144 25 #149 26
27 #160 28
29 #176
5:30 pm 11:00 pm 7:00 pm
1:45 pm
6:15 pm
$10
tickets 75 min
WARNING
SUBJECT MATTER • LANGUAGE
Eye Flower Productions Fort McMurray, AB
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #105 20 #115 21
1:30 pm
8:00 pm
23 #137 24
25 #148 26 #152 27
11:00 pm
5:15 pm 12:00 pm
$10
Sunday 22 #127
4:45 pm 29 #177
28
8:15 pm
tickets 60 min
GENERAL audience
WARNING
STROBE LIGHTS
Found In New York Productions
This Town
New York, NY
by Carol Lee Sirugo
20
Saturday
20 #112 21 #123 22
19
MATURE audience
Rubbish follows the journey of Skip and Zee, two young boys who get lost in a bizarre carnival and are mysteriously sucked into a rubbish bin where they shrink to the size of insects and are thrown into the city dump. Rubbish is a fast-paced physical theatre piece that uses two actors to create over 30 characters including a centipede, talking bed springs, mobster flies and scavenging seagulls.
venue sponsor
75 min
GENERAL audience • under 10 not admitted
Rubbish
275
Saturday Sunday 21 #121 22
www.FoundinNewYorkProductions.com
After the local pie-maker’s death, a small town still puzzles over a big question: was it accidental or does someone have a recipe for murder? In This Town, things aren’t always what they seem … MEDIA CHOICE AWARD for Best Play – Saskatoon Fringe Winnipeg Fringe’s 2011 Best of Fest winner for The Hysteric: HHHH “Wickedly clever … a ton of fun” – CBC Manitoba HHHH “A crazy good hour of your time” – Winnipeg Free Press HHHH “Darkly comic” – Uptown Magazine
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #101 19
Friday Saturday 20 #111 21
Sunday 22 #130
7:00 pm
12:00 pm
9:45 pm
23 #133 24
25 #146 26 #154 27 #163 28 #172 29
3:45 pm
1:45 pm
$10
3:30 pm
7:00 pm 11:30 pm
tickets MATURE audience • under 12 not admitted
WARNING
www.facebook.com/WinnipegFringe
LANGUAGE • GUNSHOTS
60 min
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venue
MTC UP the ALLEY
174 Market Ave. | Enter from back alley (John Hirsch Pl.)
2
Qster Productions
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
Edmonton, AB
by John Patrick Shanley
www.ribbitrepublic.com
In a rundown bar in the Bronx, two strangers meet at the end of their rope. Haunted by the past and trapped in the violence of the present, Danny and Roberta begin the ruthless act of revealing themselves – a brutal exposure that threatens to change everything. Explosively funny and surprisingly tender, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea is a deeply affecting study of alienation and the redemptive power of love.
Monday 16
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #205 20 #216 21 #218 22
2:00 pm
9:00 pm 12:15 pm
23 #236 24 #245 25 #249 26 #253 27
29 #278
28
7:15 pm 10:45 pm 5:30 pm 12:15 pm
$10
HHHH “The two performers are superb” – Edmonton Sun HHHH “a beauty of a production” – VUE Weekly
Tuesday 17
8:15 pm
tickets 60 min
mature audience • under 14 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language
Run Ragged Company
DAVES OF THEIR LIVES
Winnipeg, MB
by Dale Watts
In this mild spoof of soap operas, a formerly successful but mentally exhausted businessman – stuck in a loveless marriage, continually henpecked by his prematurely menopausal wife, exploited by his stepmother, manipulated by his daughter and intimidated by a now-deceased father – begins to believe he might find happiness when a sultry young woman enters his life.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #202 19
Friday Saturday 20 #214 21
Sunday 22 #227
3:15 pm
8:45 pm
5:45 pm
23 #237 24
25 #247 26
27 #260 28 #271 29
9:00 pm
2:00 pm
12:15 pm 7:30 pm
$9
$8
tickets
students • seniors • Fringe performers
60 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language
MegaKrenn
The Death Test
Winnipeg, MB
by Makrenna Sterdan
www.megakrenn.com
Newlyweds Decessus and Virtus said in their wedding vows that their love “is so strong, that not even Death could part them.” Insulted, Death takes them up on the challenge. He takes Decessus to his realm, where Virtus cannot follow, to show them that nothing, not even love, is stronger than he is. Meanwhile, Virtus embarks on an extraordinary journey to save her husband, collecting some colourful and unexpected companions along the way.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #203 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #212 21 #222 22
10:30 pm
2:00 pm
23 #235 24
25 #251 26
27 #261 28
29 #277
5:30 pm
9:15 pm
2:00 pm
6:30 pm
$5
7:00 pm
tickets 60 min
general audience
Chirpy Teen Productions
ELLAmentary: A One-person Musical About Filling Out and Fitting In
Toronto, ON
by Christine Aziz 120 venue sponsor
Ella Salmon, a vibrant elementary school student growing up in the ‘90s, loves t-ball, Pogs and YM Magazine. Her comedic coming-of-age adventure features a school dance, an old-time movie star and many awkward pre-teen moments. Ella interacts with the audience and sings up a storm as an observant and spunky youngster with a ginormous heart. WINNER – Best of the Fringe, 2011 Toronto Fringe
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #206 20
3:45 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #224 22 #226
10:45 pm 1:30 pm
23 #232 24 #243 25
26 #256 27 #262 28 #272 29
12:00 pm 7:30 pm
5:15 pm
$10
tickets
$8
3:45 pm
9:15 pm
matinees • students • seniors Fringe performers
general audience
WARNING 22
Show is geared towards ages 12 and up
www.twitter.com/WinnipegFringe • #wpgfringe
60 min
Daryl’s World Industries
Jumpman Bros. Enter 8 bit Underland
Winnipeg, MB
by Cody Creed
www.jumpmanbros.yolasite.com Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #209 20
23
24 #241 25 #246 26 #257 27 #266 28 #269 29
9:00 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #219 22 #231
2:00 pm 10:30 pm
With a mix of green screen animated magic and live action, the Jumpmans will need all the mustache a bro can muster. Join them on a musical improv adventure, a must-see for classic gamers and folks into movie magic.
4:00 pm 12:15 pm 7:00 pm 11:00 pm 3:45 pm
$10
tickets
$8
In a spectacle of big-world proportions, follow the Jumpman brothers as they enter the pipe (proverbially) and discover the perils and epic mustachery of 8 bit Underland.
Successful completion of the Konami Code
60 min
general audience
YerStory
Like Lightning
Winnipeg, MB
Monday 16
by Eric Warwaruk
Tuesday 17
Wednesday 18
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
19 #208 20 #217 21
22 #228
7:00 pm 10:45 pm
5:00 pm
23 #234 24 #239 25
26 #258 27
28 #270 29
3:30 pm 12:00 pm
8:45 pm
5:30 pm
$10
tickets
$7
matinees • students • seniors fringe performers
general audience
WARNING
The rock star Angie from the world-famous indie band Boo Boo, adored by millions of fans but driven to near-madness by the suffocating fame, escapes to the anonymity of a dingy motel room in order to reassess her life. A slightly surreal, absurdly real and brilliantly genredefying glimpse into the mind of a neurotic and genius rock star. And a twist on why we need music to live.
2 x
MTC UP the ALLEY
Tuesday 17
174 Market Ave. | Enter from back alley (John Hirsch Pl.)
Monday 16
venue
75 min
120
language • gunshots
starring
Graham Blicq, Gwendolyn collins, Brittainnie Pillar and rick caslake as Uncle schUmacher
Venue 3 Friday, July 20 H 10:30 pm Tuesday, July 24 H 12:00 pm the playhouse studio sunday, July 22 H 5:15 pm Thursday, July 26 H 8:45 pm Thursday, July 19 H 7:00 pm monday, July 23 H 3:30 pm saTurday, July 28 H 5:15 pm
venue
MTC UP the ALLEY
174 Market Ave. | Enter from back alley (John Hirsch Pl.)
2
RiderGirl
RiderGirl
Ottawa, ON
by Colleen Sutton
www.ridergirl.com
Sax on the sideline, first on the field, RiderGirl is Grey Cup bound. A piece of the prairies, she bleeds green, talks trash and never misses a play. Knowing the rules like the back of her hand doesn’t stop the numbers game from tripping her up and she really needs a touchdown. Come in your colours, game time is here! Two-time Rideau Award nominee Colleen Sutton will energize your inner fan.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #210 20 #213 21 #223 22
10:45 pm 3:45 pm
8:45 pm
23 #238 24 #240 25 #250 26
27 #263 28 #267 29
10:45 pm 2:00 pm
5:30 pm 12:00 pm
$10
tickets
7:15 pm
$8
wearing CFL shirts/jerseys
75 min
mature audience • under 18 not admitted
WARNING
language
Saucy Gal Productions
Tales My Mother Never Told Me
Winnipeg, MB
by Leigh-Anne Kehler
Timeless bad girls on the hunt for adventure knew how to play the game. They were sheep in wolves’ clothing. They titillated without batting an eyelash. Join acclaimed storyteller Leigh-Anne Kehler of the FemMennonite series as she journeys back to her roots – Saucy Tales and Spicy Tales played to sold-out Fringe audiences over 10 years ago. As the teller nears the big 4-0, her heroines have grown up too …
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday 18
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
17
23
24 #244 25
26 #254 27
28 #273 29
9:15 pm
2:00 pm
11:00 pm
5:30 pm
$9
7:30 pm
3:45 pm 12:00 pm
tickets 45 min
mature audience • under 15 not admitted
Past their prime? Hardly. Who needs spicy when you can be sultry?
Watson Arts
Teacher in the House
Brooklyn, NY
by Susan Jeremy
www.watsonarts.org
In New York City, there is an elite squad of teachers who travel to student homes. These dedicated professionals battle insane relatives, heinous buildings and life-threatening situations. Susan Jeremy is one of these teachers. These are her stories. Fringe favorite from P.S. 69 and Brazil Nuts returns with hilarious and heartbreaking tales of urban survival in this new show. “Accept no substitutes, Jeremy is the real deal” – Winnipeg Free Press “Jeremy is a gifted storyteller” – The Scotsman “Intensely personal characters and great writing” – Montreal Mirror
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #204 20
23
24 #242 25 #252 26 #255 27 #265 28 #268 29
12:15 pm 5:45 pm 11:00 pm 3:30 pm
$10
tickets
$8
Saturday Sunday 21 #221 22 #229
5:15 pm 9:15 pm
seniors
60 min
general audience
Elizabeth Blue Brooklyn, NY
by Elizabeth Blue
venue sponsor
www.elizabethblue.net
Blue merges the comedic chops she honed on the improv stages of NYC with her real-life spiritual adventures to tell the story of how she flew across America to spend a week with a Native American shaman, hoping it would change her life. It does … just not in the way she’d planned. “A criminally funny performer who is almost certainly the love child of Kristin Schaal and Tina Fey.” – The Charlebois Post, Montreal
Monday 16
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #3243 25
8:30 pm
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #3218 20 #3214 21 #3218 22 #3226
5:30 pm 12:00 pm 2:15 pm 27 #3265 28 #3268 29
10:30 pm 3:30 pm
Wednesday Thursday 18 #201 19
Friday Saturday 20 #211 21
7:00 pm
12:15 pm
Sunday 22 #230
8:45 pm
25 #248 26 #259 27 #264 28
29 #276
1:45 pm
3:45 pm 10:45 pm 7:30 pm
4:45 pm
$10
Highlighted Performances offer a 2 for $10 ticket price
7:00 pm 26
Tuesday 17
23 #233 24
“Blue wins us over with her quirky, perky charm.” – Time Out Chicago
24
7:00 pm
2:00 pm
Unenlightened 120
Sunday
19 #207 20 #215 21 #220 22 #225
16
tickets general audience
60 min
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venue
180 Market Ave. | Entrance on Main St.
the PLAYHOUSE STUDIO
3
Selchie Theatre
7 Ways to Die, a love story
Edmonton, AB
by Keltie Brown & Alexander Forsyth
www.selchietheatre.wordpress.com
Rachel and Irving live in the same building, ride the same elevator, take the same buses and shop at the same stores, but they are strangers. Then one day, something changes. Performed in full mask and featuring seven comic suicide attempts, 7 Ways to Die, a love story explores the isolation and absurdity of modern life. A romantic comedy brought to you by Fringe veterans K.I.A. Productions and Selchie Theatre.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #301 19
Friday 20
7:00 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #321 22 #327
5:45 pm
25 #349 26 #357 27 #366 28 #367 29
12:00 pm
5:15 pm
$10
tickets
$8
7:00 pm 10:30 pm 12:00 pm
students • seniors
60 min
general audience
WARNING
comic violence
Howard Petrick
Breaking Rank!
San Francisco, CA
by Howard Petrick
www.HowardPetrick.com
The autobiographical solo show of a Vietnam-era draftee who fights against the military bureaucracy for his right to organize his fellow GIs against the war. “It’s a dazzling display with a self-deprecating honesty.” – Kings River Life “It’s an engaging tale, often funny … Petrick’s writing is strong … valuable as a piece of history in a time when for much of the population, Vietnam is just a vague, long-ago event.” – Fresno Bee “Relevant and real” – Culture Vulture, Victoria “Fascinating … engaging.” – CBC
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday 18
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
17
23
24 #344 25
26 #356 27 #362 28 #372 29
9:00 pm
5:15 pm
3:30 pm 12:15 pm 10:45 pm 1:45 pm
$10
tickets
$8
3:30 pm
9:00 pm
matinees • students • seniors • Veterans
60 min
mature audience • under 14 not admitted
WARNING
language
Ruus Productions Winnipeg, MB
by Vello Ruus
www.caccfringe.blogspot.ca
Happy and Lucky meet in a beach hut, finally face to face after years of separation. Through stories, memories – real or imagined – and games with changing rules, they slip in and out of each other’s identities, making sense of their present reality. catch-as-catch-can n. 1. a style of wrestling in which trips, holds below the waist, etc., are allowed. ~adj., adv. 2. Chiefly U.S. and Canadian using any method or opportunity that comes to hand. – Collins English Dictionary
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #310 20 #314 21
Sunday 22 #325
10:45 pm 5:15 pm
12:00 pm
23 #337 24 #343 25 #347 26
9:00 pm
$8
7:15 pm
tickets
27
1:45 pm
$6
28 #371 29
7:15 pm
matinees • students • seniors kids (12 & under)
60 min
general audience • under 10 not admitted
WARNING
gunshots
Insania Brevis
The Curious Case of the Killer Crossword
Winnipeg, MB
by Skelley Blackley
venue sponsor
Do you enjoy mystery and danger? Are you secretly pulled toward the seething, steamy haunts of Winnipeg at night? Then follow master detective Elliot Pendleton and his less masterful partner as they try to solve their most baffling case. A brilliant young dancer has been murdered and the sleuths are taunted by a killer obsessed with puzzles. Follow them as they enter a world of dance and death, where surprises wait behind every turn and dark laughter lurks in every shadow.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #303 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #312 21 #322 22
10:30 pm
2:00 pm
23 #338 24
25 #351 26
27 #361 28
29 #377
10:45 pm
8:45 pm
2:00 pm
6:45 pm
$8
tickets
$7
general audience
WARNING 26
Sunday
19 #306 20 #311 21 #324 22 #326
16
Catch As Catch Can
100
3:30 pm
23 #332 24
subject matter
winnipegfringe.com
7:30 pm
students • seniors • kids (12 & under)
45 min
Little Green Hat
Donkey Derby
Ottawa, ON/Letterkenny, Ireland
by Tess McManus
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #304 20
23
24 #342 25 #352 26 #355 27 #365 28 #368 29
12:00 pm 5:30 pm 10:15 pm 3:30 pm
$10
Saturday Sunday 21 #319 22 #330
2:15 pm 8:45 pm
9:00 pm
1:45 pm
tickets 60 min
general audience • under 10 not admitted
A young Irish girl’s family enters her into Letterkenny’s annual Donkey Derby. Mary must either face her fears of not living up to expectations, thwarting social perceptions and looking silly in front of the handsome and offbeat Murphy Donovan, or find a graceful way out of the competition. From the director of She Rules With Iron Sticks (HHHHH), 33: A Kabarett (HHHHH) and Playing for Advantage (HHHHH).
Mark Shyzer
Fishbowl
Toronto, ON
by Mark Shyzer
www.shyzer.ca/fishbowl Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #309 20
Saturday 21
Sunday 22
9:00 pm 23 #335 24 #345 25 #348 26 #353 27 #364 28
29 #376
5:30 pm 10:45 pm 3:30 pm 12:00 pm 7:00 pm
5:00 pm
$10
tickets
$8
mature audience
WARNING
language
matinees • Fringe performers
60 min
Shockingly funny and equally moving, Fishbowl slyly reveals the connections between four wildly different – and outrageously hilarious – characters, all played by Mark Shyzer. Premiered at Buddies in Bad Times to great acclaim (Toronto 2009). A festival favourite on tour and Audience Choice Award winner (New York 2010). HHHH – Toronto Sun “Intelligent, extremely funny, thought-provoking and cleverly crafted, put this one at the top of your Fringe list” – Beat Magazine
3 x
the PLAYHOUSE STUDIO
Tuesday 17
180 Market Ave. | Entrance on Main St.
Monday 16
venue
100
venue
180 Market Ave. | Entrance on Main St.
the PLAYHOUSE STUDIO
3
Old Boy Productions
The Last Time
Winnipeg, MB
by Owen McKinley Perkins Imagine you’re robbing a bank and your uncle is telling you what to do. Your sister waits in the getaway car. Now picture yourself with a gun. You’ve been fired from your job. A cop is dating your sister. Your uncle is three sheets to the wind, but at least he’s got a plan. This could be your last chance. This could be your last time.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #308 20 #317 21
7:00 pm 10:30 pm
5:15 pm
23 #334 24 #339 25
26 #358 27
28 #370 29
3:30 pm 12:00 pm
8:45 pm
5:15 pm
$7
tickets
$6
fringe performers
75 min
general audience • under 8 not admitted
WARNING
language • gunshots
Prairie Fire Presents
The Screw You Revue Presents Lady Winifred
Regina, SK
by Dewey Chaffee & Douglas McGeoch
www.ScrewYouEntertainment.com
From the performer-creators of The Screw You Revue, 2010 Winnipeg Best of Fest winner, comes a completely NEW duo of over-the-top characters. Lady Winifred, a recent coma survivor, is joined by her fey boy toy, Gerald Ashleigh Young, to regain the notoriety she once enjoyed. Together, the duo acclimate Lady Winifred to a world of cell phones, 24-hour news cycles and a black US President.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #307 20 #313 21 #323 22 #329
5:15 pm
3:30 pm
9:00 pm
25 #350 26
27 #360 28 #369 29
1:45 pm
7:00 pm
12:15 pm 3:30 pm
$10
“… comedy gold.” – Orlando Sentinel
tickets 60 min
mature audience subject matter • language
55BC
Strange Dreamz
Nashville, TN
by Kevin J Thornton
www.kevinjthornton.com
Thornton is a comedian and musician who has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and is a New Faces Winner at The Comedy Store in Hollywood. He was also a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley recently. Pretty classy credits for a guy who’s made a career of juvenile dick jokes. Part stand-up. Part concert. Fully badass.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #305 20 #316 21 #320 22
1:45 pm
8:45 pm
23 #336 24 #340 25 #346 26 #359 27
7:15 pm
$10
29 #378
2:00 pm 12:00 pm 10:45 pm
tickets
WARNING
$8
8:15 pm
matinees • students • seniors Fringe performers
60 min
subject matter • language
DANIEL NIMMO
TEMPLE OF KHAOS: A Modern Myth
Toronto, ON
by Daniel Nimmo, Kristian Reimer, Amy J. Lester & Nicole Ratjen Imagine Monty Python meets Game of Thrones at the Moulin Rouge. Experience this epic myth filled with clown, circus and comedy. Starring the primordial god KHAOS, the lord of mankind; a court Jester; a princess and more in a comic/psychodrama. Cabaret, Greek myth and creativity collide in this esoteric masterpiece. HHHH “Very funny” – CBC “Hilarious” – Globe and Mail
www.danielnimmo.com Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #341 25
26 #354 27 #363 28 #373 29
3:45 pm
1:45 pm
$10
tickets
Wednesday Thursday 18 #302 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #315 21 #318 22 #331
8:45 pm
7:00 pm 12:30 pm 10:45 pm
$5
general audience
“Genuinely uplifting” – Vancouver Sun
28
4:00 pm 28
mature audience
venue sponsor
7:15 pm
23 #333 24
WARNING
100
Sunday 22 #328
www.facebook.com/WinnipegFringe
5:15 pm 10:45 pm
first performance
60 min
venue
190 Rupert Ave. | Entrance on Main St.
ALLOWAY HALL (manitoba museum)
4
inspired I theatre
The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine
Winnipeg, MB
by Robert Morgan, Martha Ross & Leah Cherniak Is love always patient and kind? Or is it a black hole from which you may never escape? The world’s most adorkable couple fall in love and just keep on falling. It’s funny because it’s oh-so painfully true. Directed by Debbie Patterson “… a wildly hilarious and painfully truthful caricature of human nature.” – Toronto Star
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23 #435 24
Wednesday Thursday 18 #403 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #412 21 #422 22
10:30 pm
1:45 pm
25
5:15 pm
$10
$8
tickets
7:15 pm
26 #458 27 #461 28
29 #477
9:00 pm
6:15 pm
1:45 pm
Fringe performers people named Ernest
75 min
mature audience
WARNING
language
Green with Envy Productions
Baggage.
Toronto, ON
by Kelly Aija Zemnickis
www.greenwithenvyproductions.ca
Meet Noah, a budding writer and befuddled fiancé who’s about to get married. But an unexpected sleepover in an airport terminal leads him to Ava, who appears to be in one of those relationships that can only be found in the movies. Convinced he’s destined to go through the motions all the way to the altar, Noah questions finding love in five easy steps. You can plan all you want, but life definitely has its own agenda.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #407 20
Saturday Sunday 21 #419 22 #429
23
24 #441 25 #452 26 #455 27 #465 28 #470 29
5:15 pm 3:30 pm 10:30 pm 3:30 pm
$10
HHHH½ – Minnesota Fringe audience review
$7
tickets
1:45 pm 9:00 pm
5:15 pm
students • seniors
75 min
mature audience • under 16 not admitted
WARNING
language
Thin Lizotte
The Getaway
Winnipeg, MB
by Andrew Lizotte From most of the people who brought you Rogue Cop. Stephen is a family man in the midst of a midlife crisis. While flying to the tropical island of San Marcos on vacation, he convinces his wife Carol to leave their child on the plane when it lands. Will Stephen and Carol finally regain control of their lives?! The Getaway is a look at what it means to be a parent in the style of Samuel Beckett and the Marx Brothers.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #408 20
7:15 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #420 22 #431
3:45 pm 10:45 pm
23 #437 24
25 #446 26 #457 27
28 #467 29
9:00 pm
12:00 pm 7:15 pm
12:00 pm
$10
tickets 60 min
mature audience
WARNING
language • strobe lights
Pi: The Physical Comedy Troupe
The Good, The Bad, and The Stupid
San Francisco, CA
by Pi Clowns 175
venue sponsor
www.PiClowns.com
This summer, the US-based clown ensemble Pi: The Physical Comedy Troupe brings the wild west north. Incredible acrobatics, high-speed horse races and duels to the [overly dramatic] death await you in this fast-paced circus and comedy explosion. So saddle up and trot on down for some side-splitting comedy by the Pi Clowns. Winner: Best of the Fringe – San Francisco
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #405 20 #416 21 #418 22
1:45 pm
9:00 pm 12:00 pm
23 #436 24 #445 25 #449 26 #453 27
7:15 pm 10:45 pm 5:15 pm 12:00 pm
$10
28
29 #478
8:15 pm
tickets general audience
30
7:00 pm
www.twitter.com/WinnipegFringe • #wpgfringe
60 min
Bananafish Theatre
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #410 20 #415 21 #421 22 #427
24 #444 25
26 #454 27 #460 28 #469 29
9:00 pm
1:45 pm 12:00 pm 3:30 pm
10:45 pm 7:15 pm
$8
5:30 pm
matinees • students • seniors kids (12 & under) • Equity members Fringe performers • Fans of School Ties
60 min
mature audience
WARNING
3:30 pm
language
Virginia Bryan
MY THREE MOMS
New York, NY
by Virginia Bryan
www.mythreemomstheshow.com | www.virginiabryan.com Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #401 19
Friday Saturday 20 #411 21
7:00 pm
12:00 pm
Sunday 22 #430
9:00 pm
23 #433 24
25 #448 26 #459 27 #464 28
29 #476
1:45 pm
3:30 pm 11:00 pm 7:15 pm
4:30 pm
$10
tickets
$8
students • seniors • Fringe performers
general audience • under 10 not admitted
60 min
One birthed her, one nursed her, one raised her. Now she’s burying all three. A daughter is called back to the red clay of Georgia to bury her three moms and shape her own identity. Good Lord Almighty! Who are all these crazy people at the funerals?!
ALLOWAY HALL
23
The story is unremarkable. We’ve all heard it before: two best friends are background actors in Field of Dreams, decide to write a screenplay, star in their own hit movie and win an Oscar for their troubles. But what is the true story behind the success of Good Will Hunting? The sold-out 2003 New York Fringe Festival hit written by Mindy Kaling (NBC’s The Office) and Brenda Withers traces the unknown story behind Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s meteoric rise to stardom right from the very beginning, when the completed screenplay falls from the sky and into their laps.
(manitoba museum)
Tuesday 17
190 Rupert Ave. | Entrance on Main St.
Monday 16
tickets
4 x
by Mindy Kaling & Brenda Withers
www.bananafishtheatre.com
$10
venue
Matt & Ben
Winnipeg, MB
My Three Moms was a hit at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2010 and went on to play at the 2011 United Solo Theatre Festival in NYC’s historic Theatre Row.
175
Aqua Books
BYOV 20
123 Princess St.
venue
190 Rupert Ave. | Entrance on Main St.
ALLOWAY HALL (manitoba museum)
4
Resonator Theatrical
Revolver 101
Winnipeg, MB
by Rob Brown
Randall has brought a loaded gun to class. Sam enters the room, sets down a tape recorder and presses record. With many twists, trips and turns, Revolver 101 examines, with words alone, the fallout of violence. A stark and performance-heavy experience for audiences. “The premise is brilliant.” – Uptown Magazine
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #442 25 #447 26
27 #466 28 #471 29
5:30 pm
11:00 pm 7:15 pm
8:45 pm
$10
“Strong performers. Bold. Edgy.” – CBC Manitoba HHHH½ “Provocative. Powerful.” – Winnipeg Free Press
Wednesday Thursday 18 #402 19
tickets
1:45 pm
$8
Friday Saturday 20 #414 21
Sunday 22 #425
5:30 pm
12:00 pm
matinees • students • seniors kids (12 & under) • Fringe performers
60 min
mature audience
WARNING
language • herbal cigarettes
Steak & Sushi Productions
Ton Frère/Your Brother
Ste. Anne, MB
by Chloé Smith & Émilie Morier-Roy Seth has it all: a beautiful girlfriend, great friends and a good chance at winning the football scholarship. But his whole life changes when he realizes that he has feelings for Jesse, his girlfriend’s gay brother. Félix a la vie parfaite: une blonde fantastique, de très bonnes amitiés et une chance de recevoir une bourse scolaire pour le football. Mais sa vie change énormément quand il tombe amoureux de Jeremy, le frère homosexuel de sa blonde. in French/en franÇais: July/juillet 19, 26 & 27
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #406 20
3:30 pm
11:00 pm 1:45 pm
23 #432 24 #443 25
26 #456 27 #462 28 #472 29
12:00 pm 7:15 pm
5:30 pm
$8
tickets
$6
3:45 pm
mature audience • under 12 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language • gunshots
Winnipeg, MB
by Scott Douglas
www.touringtest.net
A touring production sponsored by the International Institute of Robotics and Culture, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing’s birth.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #409 20 #417 21
9:00 pm 10:45 pm
Following each performance, the audience will be invited to vote on which of the actors are human, and which, if any, are robots. Not even the actors know.
23 #434 24 #439 25 #451 26
A behind-the-scenes comedy of love, art and artificial intelligence.
$10
Sunday 22 #428
5:15 pm 28 #468 29
27
3:30 pm 12:00 pm 8:45 pm
1:45 pm
tickets 60 min
mature audience
WARNING
language
Bitter Pill Ensemble
The Tucker Mother Lode
Winnipeg, MB
by David Colvin
The strands of this web extend between the shadowy margins of an inner-city walk-up apartment and a secluded curve on the sluggish urban river. It is on this thread that the collector, the prophet and the tormentor co-exist, each in search of their own private mother lode.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #404 20 #413 21 #423 22
12:00 pm 3:45 pm
27 #463 28 #473 29
10:45 pm 1:45 pm
5:30 pm 10:45 pm
$10
tickets
WARNING Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #3243 25
8:30 pm
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #3218 20 #3214 21 #3218 22 #3226
Highlighted Performances offer a 2 for $10 ticket price
7:00 pm
5:30 pm 12:00 pm 2:15 pm
26
27 #3265 28 #3268 29
10:30 pm 3:30 pm
9:15 pm
23 #438 24 #440 25 #450 26
7:00 pm
$7
mature audience
32
60 min
Treading Water
Directed by Ross McMillan.
venue sponsor
9:00 pm
fringe performers
The Touring Test
“This is a wonderful, thoughtful, magical show.” – CBC review of 2009’s Treading Water
175
Saturday Sunday 21 #424 22 #426
language
matinees
60 min
From The Producers Of: This is CANCER, Jake’s Gift, One Man Star Wars, and One Man Lord of the Rings.
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See
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venue
140 Rupert Ave. | Side entrance
SON of WAREHOUSE
5
Prairie Q productions
Against the Wall
Winnipeg, MB
by Primrose Madayag Knazan Ash escaped into the world of C.C. Bloom, while Steve escaped on the field. They came from two different worlds, yet longed for the same thing … Her words changed them. A new play by three-time Best of Fest winner Primrose Madayag Knazan.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #502 19
Friday Saturday 20 #513 21
Sunday 22 #526
1:45 pm
8:45 pm
3:45 pm
23 #538 24
25 #552 26
27
10:15 pm
10:00 pm
$10
tickets
$8
28 #571 29 #576
7:00 pm
matinees • students
75 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language
dubious company
Andrea von Wichert is OVEREXPOSED (a paperless campaign)
Winnipeg, MB
by Andrea von Wichert
www.avwsite.com
Back from taking the UK by storm, Andrea von Wichert is ready to mount a saucy, raw, slightly subversive and definitely ambitious campaign of paperless OVEREXPOSURE. Multi-disciplinary artist, spoken word performer, award-winning writer, Andrea von Wichert fights the fight against artistic banality with self-revelation and deprecation, plucking out her viscera and displaying them proudly for your edification, and hers. “Sassy!” – George Toles “Cerebrally sexual!” – some creepy guy at show “A troublemaker!” – high school vice-principal
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #507 20 #511 21 #521 22 #530
5:30 pm 12:15 pm 5:45 pm 26 #559 27
28 #569 29
2:00 pm
10:15 pm
3:45 pm
$8
8:45 pm
tickets
$7
matinees • students • seniors unemployed • artists
60 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language
randombandname productions Winnipeg, MB
by Fraz Wiest & Stephen Sim What’s a performer to do when his ideal cast for a show and the characters they’d play are all in his head? There are two choices, really: let loneliness defeat him and call the whole thing off, or embrace it and do the whole thing himself. The legendary Fraz Wiest (Ghost Jail Theatre, Toronto/ D’n’D Improv, Winnipeg) plays all the parts in all his lonely glory. Stephen Sim (CRUMBS, Winnipeg) directs this one-man war on companionship.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #510 20 #514 21 #523 22
10:30 pm 5:45 pm
9:15 pm
23 #536 24 #540 25 #550 26
27 #560 28
7:00 pm
12:15 pm
$8
2:00 pm
6:45 pm
29
tickets 45 min
mature audience
WARNING
language
Active Salad Productions
Gametes and Gonads
Victoria, BC
by Jeff Leard
venue sponsor
Star Wars meets your genitals in this action-packed one-man show exploring the sci-fi universe that is the reproductive system. Get sucked off into a world of life, love and death before birth in Gametes and Gonads.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #508 20 #517 21
7:15 pm 10:45 pm
Sunday 22 #528
5:30 pm
23 #534 24 #539 25 #547 26 #558 27
28 #570 29
HHHH½ “The Fringe’s hidden gem.” – Times Colonist, Victoria
3:45 pm 12:30 pm 1:45 pm
5:30 pm
“Too funny to miss.” – Mooney on Theatre, Toronto
$10
“A fantastic performance.” – Marc-Andre Roy, Cirque du Soleil “A show you have to see to believe” – Calgary Sun
34
8:45 pm
23 #533 24 #544 25
FRAZ: Lonely At Last
100
4:45 pm
tickets
$9
8:45 pm
students • seniors • Fringe performers
mature audience • under 13 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language
winnipegfringe.com
45 min
155 Avenue Productions
Jesus Christ’s Favourite Comedian
Edmonton, AB
12:15 pm 7:00 pm
5:15 pm
HHHHH – Jesus Christ
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #506 20
3:45 pm
$10
Saturday Sunday 21 #524 22 #527
10:45 pm 3:45 pm 1:45 pm
9:00 pm
tickets mature audience • under 17 not admitted
WARNING
60 min
subject matter • language • nudity
Travis Bernhardt
Lies!
Vancouver, BC
by Travis Bernhardt
www.travisthemagician.ca Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #505 20 #516 21 #518 22
2:00 pm
9:00 pm 12:30 pm
23 #535 24 #545 25
26 #553 27 #566 28
29 #578
5:15 pm 10:30 pm
12:00 pm 10:30 pm
8:30 pm
$10
tickets
$9
general audience
seniors
60 min
A new magic show from Travis Bernhardt, creator of Things That Never Happen (HHHH “his slightly nerdy charm is infectious and his intelligence and wit shine through … the real deal … literally amazing” – Al Rae, CBC Manitoba). Fake abilities, false demonstrations, theatrical deceptions old and new! Mysteries and swindles! Tricks! “a great performer … charming and very funny” – Plank Magazine, Vancouver
5
SON of WAREHOUSE
26 #556 27 #561 28 #572 29
Tuesday 17
140 Rupert Ave. | Side entrance
23 #532 24 #543 25
Underground stand-up comedian/performance artist Gregory Krayzelburg takes the audience on a hilarious, mind-bending journey involving stand-up comedy, magic and hypnosis.
Monday 16
venue
100
panago.com
Proud supporter of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival
venue
140 Rupert Ave. | Side entrance
SON of WAREHOUSE
5
minute and a huff productions
Next
Winnipeg, MB
by Michael Nathanson Next is a funny and candid behind-the-scenes look at one actress trying to maintain her humour and sanity on the worst day of auditions in her life.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #501 19
Friday Saturday 20 #515 21
Sunday 22 #525
7:00 pm
7:15 pm
12:00 pm
Performed by noted Winnipeg actress Tracy Penner, Next is the newest play from Governor General Award finalist Michael Nathanson.
23
24
25 #549 26 #554 27 #563 28 #573 29
Mark it now as one of your Fringe Festival “must-sees.”
$10
5:00 pm
tickets
$8
1:45 pm
5:15 pm 10:45 pm
matinees • students • Equity members ACTRA • MAP • Fringe performers
60 min
mature audience
WARNING
language
Tonya Jone Miller
Threads: The True Story of an Indiana Farm Girl in Vietnam
Portland, OR
by Tonya Jone Miller
www.threadstheplay.com
In August of 1968, a farm girl from rural Indiana stepped off a plane in Saigon, Vietnam. From being held at gunpoint on her very first night in-country, to adopting an entire family of Vietnamese orphans, her extraordinary story is both universal and intensely personal. Threads illustrates how interconnected we are, how we never know the influence a seemingly small action might have, and how in the span of an instant, some people change our lives forever.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #509 20
Saturday Sunday 21 #522 22 #531
23
24 #541 25 #546 26 #557 27 #562 28 #567 29
8:45 pm 3:30 pm 12:00 pm 7:00 pm
$10
tickets
$8
7:30 pm 10:30 pm 3:30 pm 12:15 pm
matinees • students • seniors Veterans • unemployed • union members Fringe performers
60 min
general audience
Squeezebox Mama
The Tracey Fragments
Winnipeg, MB
by Gislina Patterson | Based on the novel by Maureen Medved Fifteen-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is naked under a shower curtain at the back of the bus, looking for her little brother who she turned into a dog. “… an eerie glimpse of a raging adolescent psyche … a cohesive portrait of a teenager on the verge of imploding” – Publishers Weekly Based on the novel The Tracey Fragments by Maureen Medved, published by House of Anansi Press www.houseofanansi.com. Directed by Debbie Patterson Candy From a Baby HHHHH Molotov Circus HHHH
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #503 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #512 21 #519 22
10:45 pm
2:00 pm
23 #537 24
25 #548 26
27 #565 28
29 #577
8:30 pm
3:15 pm
8:45 pm
6:45 pm
$8
tickets
$7
students • seniors • unemployed Equity members • Fringe performers valid bus pass holders
60 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language • gunshots • herbal cigarettes
Yana Kesala
The Ukrainian Dentist’s Daughter
Seattle, WA
by Yana Kesala 100
venue sponsor
www.yanakesala.com
New Year’s Eve, 1967. A young woman waits for her groom outside a New York Ukrainian Cathedral. One hundred and fifty guests wait inside the freezing church. The groom is already two hours late. “Yana Kesala is a force to be reckoned with … See this performance for Kesala’s phenomenal acting chops.” – Victoria Times Colonist
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #504 20
23
24 #542 25 #551 26 #555 27 #564 28 #568 29
12:15 pm 5:15 pm
$10
8:15 pm
3:30 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #520 22 #529
4:00 pm 7:00 pm
7:00 pm
2:00 pm
tickets general audience • under 10 not admitted
36
2:15 pm
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venue
140 Rupert Ave. at Lily St. | Main entrance
TOM HENDRY WAREHOUSE
6
Naughty Sailboat
Almost an Evening
Winnipeg, MB
by Ethan Coen
www.naughtysailboat.com
It’s full steam ahead for Naughty Sailboat EMTC (Kafka in Love HHHH, August Strindberg’s Flying Circus HHHH) as they mount a series of short plays written by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen, co-creator of Fargo and The Big Lebowski. Duelling gods, bungled espionage and oddly existential waiting rooms blend into a darkly hilarious almost-evening that will leave urbane theatre goers happily hungry.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #601 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #613 21 #618 22 #629
6:30 pm
3:45 pm 12:45 PM 10:30 pm
23 #634 24 #637 25
26 #657 27
28 #670 29
7:15 pm 12:00 pm
10:45 pm
8:45 pm
$10
$8
tickets
if you are sporting a toga
90 min
mature audience
WARNING
language • gunshots
Small Heroes Theatre
Barker’s Battle
Winnipeg, MB
by Jim Johnson
Barker’s Battle revolves around the relatively brief, true-to-life and tumultuous times of William Barker from Dauphin, Manitoba. Barker was a World War I fighter pilot, civil aviation pioneer and Canada’s most decorated serviceman. Whether in the battlefields of the sky, or life’s struggles after the war, he was in constant conflict with himself and those around him while striving to fulfill his ambitions.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #608 20 #614 21
7:00 pm
6:00 pm
1:15 pm
23 #631 24 #642 25 #650 26
27 #661 28
29
2:00 pm
6:00 pm
$8
9:30 pm 11:00 pm
$6
tickets
students • seniors • Fringe performers
75 min
mature audience
WARNING
language • gunshots • herbal cigarettes loud sound effects
Hidden Harlequin Theatre
Guernica
Edmonton, AB
by Erika Luckert
www.guernicaplay.tumblr.com
Watch the painted figures come to life, see their small Spanish town destroyed by bombs, and witness the moment of inspiration for Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica. Directed by the creator of last year’s hit play Big Shot, this is “a fascinating, well-conceived drama that commands your attention and doesn’t let it go” (Edmonton Journal, HHHH½).
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #638 25 #647 26 #653 27 #663 28 #668 29
2:15 pm
$10
Wednesday Thursday 18 #602 19
Friday Saturday 20 #611 21
Sunday 22 #628
8:45 pm
12:00 pm
8:45 pm
5:30 pm
3:15 pm
9:45 pm
5:15 pm
tickets 60 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language
Kiss the Giraffe Productions
Illuminati 3: The End of the World
Winnipeg, MB
by Joseph Aragon 286
venue sponsor
www.ktg.ca
The third and final instalment of the Illuminati saga! The dread society is mounting its biggest assault ever, and Dexter, Ethel and Echelon the Android must face innumerable logic-defying dangers! Nazis! Gunfire! Fisticuffs! Space battles! And the return of an old nemesis. But our heroes always come through, and by the end, the world will once again be saved! … right …? HHHH½ “This is one secret society that shouldn’t be kept a secret.” – Winnipeg Free Press (Illuminati II, 2011)
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #612 21 #621 22
1:45 pm
6:30 pm
23 #630 24 #641 25
26 #655 27 #659 28
29 #674
12:00 pm 7:30 pm
6:45 pm
4:15 pm
$10
tickets
$9
language • gunshots
www.twitter.com/WinnipegFringe • #wpgfringe
2:00 pm
wearing a tinfoil hat
mature audience
WARNING 38
Sunday 22 #624
75 min
Fallis & Ball’s
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #606 20
23
24 #639 25 #649 26 #654 27
28 #667 29
4:00 pm
3:30 pm
3:15 pm 5:00 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #622 22 #626
8:30 pm
5:15 pm
tickets 60 min
mature audience
WARNING
A tale of love and the undead on the high seas, Maiden Voyage 4: Come Hell or High Water is a stage adaptation of the fourth film in a trilogy that doesn’t exist. That makes sense, right? The team that brought you 2009’s Best of Fest winner Customer Relations and last year’s smash hit Rogue Cop (HHHHH – CBC, HHHH – Winnipeg Free Press) is back with an absurd showdown between a captain, his faithful crew and the forces of evil. With zombies.
language
Relativity Theatre
The Optimists
Winnipeg, MB
by Morwyn Brebner
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #610 20 #616 21
23
24
25 #646 26 #656 27 #658 28
29 #675
3:30 pm
6:15 pm
10:45 pm 9:30 pm
$10
tickets
$8
8:45 pm 12:00 pm
Sunday 22 #625
3:15 pm
students • seniors
mature audience • under 16 not admitted
WARNING
TOM HENDRY WAREHOUSE
Tuesday 17
140 Rupert Ave. at Lily St. | Main entrance
Monday 16
9:15 pm
6
by Rory Fallis
www.matching-jackets.com
$10
venue
Maiden Voyage 4: Come Hell or High Water
Winnipeg, MB
75 min
Four Canadians find themselves in a Vegas motel room. Two plan to wed and the other two are already married. Who is the happier couple? Morwyn Brebner, a Canadian playwright, explores dysfunctional relationships in this emotionally charged dramatic comedy set in Sin City. Where else would you get married at sunrise with killer hangovers and then go to Denny’s for breakfast? What happens in Vegas is revealed at the Fringe!
286
subject matter • language
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venue
140 Rupert Ave. at Lily St. | Main entrance
TOM HENDRY WAREHOUSE
6
Burning Meatloaf
The Qualm
Winnipeg, MB
by Burning Meatloaf Like a bull’s eye squall across a hostile sea, Burning Meatloaf returns once more to the Winnipeg Fringe! You know the old saying: sixth time’s a charm. Local, black market theatre punks Barbara and Peabody pen another original, The Qualm. “This time … the last time.” Follow this winding passage into lunacy, won’t you? Burning Meatloaf’s most fervent, dangerous and ribtickling circus yet. Be sure to inhale before there is no breath left!
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #609 20 #617 21
9:00 pm 11:30 pm 23 #632 24
25 #644 26 #652 27 #664 28 #669 29
4:00 pm
12:00 pm 1:30 pm 11:30 pm 7:00 pm
$10
tickets
$5
matinees • students • seniors Pregnant ladies • Mayans anyone wearing a Winnipeg Jets jersey
60 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language
R-G Productions
Shades of Grey
Winnipeg, MB
by Ron Blicq
Whose hand will Frankie’s baby reach for after Frankie leaves?
Monday 16
Will it be Adrian’s (Frankie’s ex), the father who insists he has the legal right but now lives with another partner?
23 #635 24
25 #648 26
27 #660 28 #671 29
9:30 pm
7:15 pm
4:00 pm 11:00 pm
Or will it be David’s and Evelyn’s, Frankie’s brother and sister-in-law, who claim they have the “family” right? Each side vehemently argues its case as Frankie tries to decide.
$9
Tuesday 17
tickets
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 #603 19 #607 20
Saturday Sunday 21 #619 22
10:30 pm 5:00 pm
3:00 pm
$7
matinees • students • seniors kids (12 & under) • Fringe performers MAP members
general audience • under 5 not admitted
Winnipeg, MB
by Meghan Athavale & Kayla Jeanson
Dancers collide with animators like the Big Bang, bringing to life a universe (created and destroyed in 45 minutes) in which humans struggle with overconsumption and their own shameful creation – the fury of the Trashbot. Visual storytelling at its most epic, powered by a driving soundtrack by Joe Silva.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #605 20 #615 21 #620 22
1:45 pm
8:00 pm
26 #651 27
28 #666 29 #676
5:45 pm 11:30 pm
12:00 pm
2:00 pm
8:15 pm
tickets 45 min
general audience
WARNING
strobe lights • loud music
White Rabbit Productions Inc.
Wings of Darkness
Winnipeg, MB
by Columpa C. Bobb
40
5:00 pm
23 #633 24 #643 25
$10
venue sponsor
75 min
Shadling Productions
Trashbot Apocalypse: A Love Story
286
Sunday 22
www.whiterabbitproductions.ca
What do you do if you are caught in the middle of a territorial dispute over sky and Earth between two nations who believe they are solely entitled to own it all?
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #604 20
12:00 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #623 22 #627
10:15 pm 7:00 pm
Bat gives in to his pain and threatens to turn Eagle and Human’s greed into an all-out war between the Legged and Winged nations of the Earth.
23 #636 24 #640 25 #645 26
27 #662 28 #665 29
11:30 pm 5:45 pm
8:00 pm 12:15 pm
Who will stop the bloodshed now? Part fantasy, part cultural legend, Wings of Darkness is a very human tale of greed, prejudice and war for profit.
$10
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #3243 25
8:30 pm
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #3218 20 #3214 21 #3218 22 #3226
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7:00 pm
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26
27 #3265 28 #3268 29
10:30 pm 3:30 pm
tickets
1:45 pm
$9
general audience
students • seniors
60 min
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venue
100 Arthur St. (Artspace Building) | Main floor
the CINEMATHEQUE
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Andrew Bailey
The Adversary
Victoria, BC
by Andrew Bailey
Imagine Woody Allen stuck in The Wire. Awardwinning comedian Andrew Bailey draws on a decade’s experience as an inner-city church caretaker to explore how justice is brought to those who don’t call the police. From the creator of Putz (HHHHH “Genius!” – Winnipeg Sun; HHHH – Winnipeg Free Press, CBC; “a constant delight” – Globe & Mail) and Limbo (winner of the 2010 Vancouver Fringe Critics’ Choice Award).
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #710 20 #713 21 #723 22
10:15 pm 3:45 pm
27 #763 28 #767 29
10:30 pm 2:00 pm
5:15 pm 12:00 pm
$10
“Bailey really is a master of the monologue” – Culture Vulture
7:00 pm
tickets 60 min
mature audience
WARNING
language
Parking Lots Improv
Choose Your Adventure: An Improvised Tale In this entirely improvised show, the story you see is made up from start to finish. When a tale comes to an important crossroads, it’s up to you to decide which way the story goes. Want to see the hero become a painter instead of slaying the dragon? Want to stop fighting aliens and start panning for gold? It’s your call. And because it’s completely improvised, you’ll take part in a new adventure every show!
9:15 pm
23 #738 24 #740 25 #750 26
Winnipeg, MB
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #703 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #712 21 #722 22 #731
10:30 pm
2:00 pm
7:30 pm 10:15 pm
23 #734 24 #739 25
26 #758 27
28 #770 29
3:30 pm 12:15 pm
8:45 pm
5:15 pm
$8
tickets
$6
matinees • students • seniors
60 min
general audience
Bessie-Jean Productions
I Hate Bill Pats
Winnipeg, MB
by Bill Pats
A dark comedy based on a true story about a life of poor choices and a failed suicide attempt. Written and performed by Bill Pats.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #707 20 #716 21 #719 22 #728
23
24 #744 25
26 #754 27
28 #773 29
8:45 pm
1:45 pm
10:30 pm
5:15 pm
$10
9:00 pm
2:15 pm
tickets 60 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language
Kingbaby Productions
The Jackie Show
Vancouver, BC
by Jackie Minns 100
venue sponsor
www.kingbaby.com
Meet Mad Mabel, Angel, Joe, Bizzy Lizzy, Svetallotta Frumbutchek and Shirley in a comedic symphony of character.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #706 20 #715 21 #718 22
3:30 pm
7:15 pm 12:30 pm
“Any sufficiently trained actor can alternate laughter and tears – but producing them both in the same moment? That’s magic.” – Spider Robinson
23 #737 24 #745 25 #749 26 #753 27
Winner, Best Comedy, Victoria Fringe
$10
“Minns is a marvel” – Vancouver Courier “Thank you for the entertainment of the year. You are a powerhouse in the expression of stories and emotions.” – audience member
42
5:00 pm
8:45 pm 10:30 pm 5:15 pm 12:00 pm
tickets
$9
mature audience
winnipegfringe.com
28
29 #778
7:45 pm
matinees
60 min
Better to Burn Out/Tim C. Murphy
KUWAITI MOONSHINE
Salmiya, Kuwait
by Tim C. Murphy
www.timcmurphy.com Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #705 20
1:45 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #724 22 #727
11:00 pm 3:15 pm
12:00 pm 7:00 pm
5:15 pm
$10
3:30 pm
8:45 pm
A new drama/comedy from the creator of BLIND TO HAPPINESS:
tickets mature audience • under 16 not admitted
WARNING
“Insightful, inspiring” – NYTHEATRE.com “One of the best the Fringe has to offer” – Montreal Gazette HHHHH “Beautiful” – Ignite FM, Winnipeg HHHH – Eye Weekly Toronto, Winnipeg Free Press, Uptown
60 min
language
Craving Space Productions
My Heart is a Glass Pinata
Vancouver, BC
Monday 16
by RC Weslowski
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #701 19
Friday Saturday 20 #711 21
Sunday 22 #730
7:00 pm
12:15 pm
8:30 pm
23 #733 24
25 #747 26 #759 27 #764 28 #769 29
1:45 pm
1:45 pm 10:30 pm 7:00 pm
$10
tickets
$8
matinees • students • unemployed Fringe performers • volunteers
mature audience • suitable for 16 & up
WARNING
3:30 pm
subject matter • language
60 min
Poems and stories, stories and poems about this awkward existence we call life … Storytelling for adults about UFO encounters in Alberta, a search for the infinite inside each of us, embarrassing sexual encounters, plus group shouting and audience participation are all a part of this new show from RC Weslowski. RC Weslowski is a performance poet from Vancouver, who has alternately been called “a cross between Lenny Bruce and Allen Ginsberg” (Fully Fringed, Ottawa) “… Rod Serling meets Ray Bradbury channeling Picasso …” (Edmonton Sun) and “some kind of sideways angel” (Rowan Lipkovits of the Creaking Planks).
the CINEMATHEQUE
26 #756 27 #762 28 #772 29
7
100 Arthur St. (Artspace Building) | Main floor
23 #732 24 #743 25
Does happiness influence intuition? Andy’s life, teaching in Kuwait, was going well … until things got really complicated. A consequential collision of illegal moonshine, misguided decisions, the Gulf War, lost love, regret and hope.
venue
100
VENUE 8 RACHEL BROWNE THEATRE
Drive Dance presents
FLASHBACK BEST OF FEST
Presented by
André Lewis
Arlene Minkhorst
artistic director
school director
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS CBC MANITOBA & UPTOWN
WINNIPEG FRINGE FESTIVAL 2010 & 2011
venue
100 Arthur St. (Artspace Building) | Main floor
the CINEMATHEQUE
7
Whether to Fly
Social Dialysis
Winnipeg, MB
by Dan Shandroski
Social Dialysis explores the emotional ups and downs of a sudden life-altering health condition. Learn the ins and outs of the Canadian healthcare system and who you can count on in the end. Laugh, cry and clean out your Facebook. Oh ya, and we may just fight some aliens.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #708 20 #717 21
Sunday 22 #726
23
24 #741 25 #751 26
27 #761 28
29 #777
3:45 pm
2:00 pm
6:15 pm
7:00 pm 10:45 pm
$8
tickets
8:45 pm
$6
1:45 pm
students • dialysis patients
45 min
general audience
WARNING
mild language
The Placeholder Show
Surf Chimps
Winnipeg, MB
by J.D. Renaud
www.theplaceholdershow.com/surfchimps
Surf Chimps is the classic film about a chimp who surfs, the kid he teaches and the evil man who tries to keep them apart.
Monday 16
Too bad it was never finished.
23 #736 24
This show compiles the incomplete elements that led to the inception and demise of Surf Chimps. Using found script pages, audition footage, musical montages and other behind-the-scenes evidence, the most complete and cohesive presentation to date of this lost piece of primate-based cinematic history can finally be told.
7:00 pm
3:30 pm
12:15 pm 7:00 pm
$8
Tuesday 17
tickets
Wednesday Thursday 18 #702 19
Friday Saturday 20 #714 21
Sunday 22 #725
8:45 pm
5:30 pm
12:00 pm
25 #748 26
27 #760 28 #771 29
$7
matinees
60 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language • gunshots • strobe lights
Rachelle Fordyce
unADULTeRATED LOVE
Winnipeg, MB www.rachellefordyce.com/unadulterated-love
NOT-single(!) white female seeking bi hawt female. Threesome fling with husband-to-be. me + 2 = true love for3v3r <3 Always, Fizzy Praise for unADULTeRATED me: Winnipeg Fringe Best of Fest 2010 A+ “Hilarity, poignancy, triumph … one of the best Fringe shows I’ve ever seen.” – Uptown HHHHH “Fordyce drops jaws … Powerful, naked, honest humanity.” – StarPhoenix HHHH “Rachelle Fordyce delights … in this touching, expertly delivered show.” – Eye Weekly
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #709 20
Saturday Sunday 21 #721 22
8:30 pm
5:45 pm
23 #735 24
25 #746 26 #757 27 #766 28
29 #776
5:15 pm
12:00 pm 7:00 pm 10:30 pm
4:30 pm
$10
tickets 60 min
mature audience
WARNING
audience participation
Zinnia Productions
Wanted, If Not Wed
St. John’s, NL
by Jennifer Gillespie 100
venue sponsor
This funny and poignant solo show interweaves dialogue taken from interviews with real people, to take a compelling look at life from the perspective of single women. There’s a Newfoundlander who used to be a nun, an elderly woman who came to America seeking love but never found it, a woman in her late thirties who has jumped back into the mating game, and, yes, spinsters with cats. BEST OF THE FEST, HHHHH – VUE Weekly, Edmonton
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #742 25 #752 26 #755 27 #765 28 #768 29
12:00 pm 5:15 pm 10:15 pm 3:30 pm
$10
Saturday Sunday 21 #720 22 #729
4:00 pm 8:45 pm
6:45 pm
1:45 pm
tickets general audience • under 10 not admitted
WARNING 44
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #704 20
www.facebook.com/WinnipegFringe
minimal bad language
60 min
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We’re not experiencing a mid-20s crisis (although we did just tattoo our name on our head), but we’ve certainly had a lot of different identities over the years! Check them all out below – and be sure to delve more deeply into our historical programs, available in their entirety online at issuu.com/winnipegfringe.
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12-06-01 2:00 PM
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venue
211 Bannatyne Ave. (Crocus Building) | Enter from parking lot on Main St.
the RACHEL BROWNE THEATRE
8
Surreal SoReal Theatre
Afterlives
Edmonton, AB
by The Surreal SoReal Collective
www.surrealsorealtheatre.com
Two demon children born invulnerable. A woman in mourning and her invisible guest. A capitalist baby falls from the mouth of a stork. Kids with Guns, Oblivion and Blue, three wordless plays from the depths of heaven, hell and limbo, performed by the highly physical Surreal SoReal Theatre, creators of last year’s hit play Big Shot. Praise for Big Shot: HHHH½ “Magnetic” – Winnipeg Free Press HHHHH “An indelible image.” – CBC Manitoba HHHHH “Gripping!” – Uptown Magazine
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #807 20
Saturday Sunday 21 #824 22 #825
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24
25 #849 26 #855 27 #861 28 #871 29
5:30 pm 7:15 pm
$10
5:30 pm
11:15 pm 12:45 pm 3:45 pm
tickets
WARNING
subject matter
Burnt at the Steak New York, NY
by Carolann Valentino
www.burntatthesteak.com
A one-woman, Vegas-meets-Broadway extravaganza! Carolann Valentino serves up Grade A prime comedy with her sizzling tales of running a famous multi-milliondollar steakhouse in NYC. Whet your appetite for this interactive spectacle as she morphs into 18 hilarious characters through song, dance, comedy and improv. Best of Fest and sold-out run, Boulder & Rouge Festival “Her raucous show had the audience howling with laughter.” – Denver Post “A Fringe hit!” – The Bee “An example of how great a solo show can be!” – Denver Post
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #802 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #813 21 #819 22 #829
9:00 pm
3:30 pm
23
24
25 #851 26 #853 27 #859 28 #870 29
$10
$8
tickets
8:15 pm
students • seniors • Fringe performers
75 min
mature audience • under 15 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language
Drive Dance
Flashback
Winnipeg, MB www.drivedance.ca Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #803 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #811 21 #822 22
11:00 pm
12:00 pm 7:45 pm
23 #834 24
25 #850 26
27 #860 28
29 #876
5:45 pm
9:15 pm
2:00 pm
6:30 pm
$10
tickets 60 min
general audience
Drek Daa
Kuravolution: Chickens of the world unite
Winnipeg, MB
by Drek Daa
www.drekdaa.com
2030 – chickens (Kura) working as cheep labour in human factories stage a web-based Kuravolution.
Monday 16
2035 – the evil Ikura takes over the world, creating a global totalitarian regime and triggering a worldwide ecological collapse.
23 #837 24 #842 25
26 #852 27 #863 28 #867 29
11:15 pm 7:45 pm
12:00 pm 7:30 pm
But then a little chicken (Keenan Lehmann – the star of the 2011 Best of Fest show It’s YES) sets forth to save the world, encountering stunning revelations about the state of food production practices. Guess who is being eaten! Preview images @ http://drekdaa.com
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2:00 pm
11:00 pm 1:45 pm 12:00 pm 7:00 pm
“passionate, theatrical, deeply musical and emotionally stirring … heart, soul, muscle and grace” – Winnipeg Free Press
venue sponsor
75 min
general audience • under 10 not admitted
Burnt at the Steak
With beauty, wit and athleticism, Drive Dance takes the audience on a fast-paced ride into the dynamic world of modern dance. Flashback sparks your deepest senses with highly physical, emotionally charged and stimulating choreography. Drive Dance performed to sold-out houses, earning Best of Fest 2010 and 2011 and HHHH from the Winnipeg Free Press, CBC Manitoba and Uptown.
120
9:00 pm
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #806 20
3:45 pm
$10
tickets
$8
subject matter • nudity • gunshots
www.twitter.com/WinnipegFringe • #wpgfringe
6:00 pm 1:45 pm
matinees • students • seniors unemployed • Fringe performers
mature audience • under 13 not admitted
WARNING
Saturday Sunday 21 #821 22
60 min
Le Frenchword
Le Frenchword Presents “Fancy Mud”
Seattle, WA
by Le Frenchword
www.lefrenchword.com Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #805 20 #816 21 #818 22
1:45 pm
9:15 pm 12:00 pm
$10
5:45 pm
tickets
$5
8:15 pm
“I haven’t seen anything this deeply, unapologetically off-the-wall in this city in a while.” – Seattlest “These three are under-the-radar superstars.” – Seattle Gay Scene
fringe performers
75 min
mature audience
WARNING
29 #877
28
3:30 pm 11:30 pm
language
Come witness the pastel threesome tell the stories of The Last Lame Three-Legged Dying Cow, black holes, cell phones, The California Cute Cult and uncover the origins of the universe.
Theatre 1974
Morning Coffee
Winnipeg, MB
by Frederick Stroppel
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #843 25 #845 26 #854 27
28 #869 29
9:30 pm 12:00 pm 3:45 pm
5:15 pm
$9
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #810 20 #815 21
Sunday 22 #827
11:15 pm 7:30 pm
4:45 pm
the RACHEL BROWNE THEATRE
9:15 pm
8
211 Bannatyne Ave. (Crocus Building) Enter from parking lot on Main St.
23 #836 24 #841 25 #847 26 #858 27
“It’s like a well-acted Three Stooges routine. Weird clown theater doesn’t get much more charming than this.” – The Stranger
venue
Live-in couple David and Katie turn an overnight squabble into something that isn’t good until the last drop. A bold, dark-roasted comedy. Directed by Darcy Fehr and starring Lyle Morris and Toni Reimer.
tickets mature audience • under 13 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language
60 min
120
venue
211 Bannatyne Ave. (Crocus Building) | Enter from parking lot on Main St.
the RACHEL BROWNE THEATRE
8
Peter ‘n Chris
Peter ‘n Chris and the Mystery of the Hungry Heart Motel
Vancouver, BC
by Chris Wilson & Peter Carlone
www.peterNchris.com
Fringe superstars Peter ‘n Chris have performed internationally, on the prestigious Second City Mainstage in Toronto, and earned a Just for Laughs – Best Comedy nomination in Montreal. Join them on their most mysterious comedy yet. What’s the mystery you ask? The motel manager is the murderer. Toronto SketchFest Audience Choice Winner HHHHH “Knee-slappingly hysterical” – Times Colonist, Victoria HHHH½ “furiously funny” – Winnipeg Free Press HHHH “sharp, fresh, and extremely funny.” – CBC
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #808 20 #812 21
7:30 pm
1:45 pm
27 #864 28 #866 29
2:00 pm 11:15 pm 5:30 pm
9:15 pm 12:00 pm
$10
tickets
$8
matinees
60 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language • comedic violence
Little Light Theatre Winnipeg, MB
by Michael Nathanson
“Emerging, like an exclamation point at the end of the most boring sentences you’ve ever read, there’s this woman, and she’s applying lip gloss and that’s all I can see … I see her mouth, a deep, profound invitation, it’s just a moment, a glimpse, but Jesus Christ, it’s enough.” – David The lesson not easily learned: when in the heat of seduction, take care you’re not the one being seduced. A sharp, sexy new play by Winnipeg’s Michael Nathanson (One of Ours, Talk).
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #809 20 #817 21
9:15 pm 11:15 pm
2:45 pm
26 #856 27
28 #872 29
3:45 pm 12:00 pm
7:30 pm
11:00 pm
$9
tickets 75 min
mature audience
Lonely Egg Ottawa, ON www.blacksheeptheatre.com Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #801 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #814 21 #820 22
7:00 pm
5:30 pm
4:00 pm
23 #831 24 #839 25
26 #857 27 #865 28
29 #875
12:00 pm 2:00 pm
9:30 pm 11:00 pm
4:30 pm
$10
Created by Fringe legends Chris Bange (The Excursionists HHHHH), Stewart Matthews (Screwed and Clued HHHHH) and Dave Dawson (Black Sheep Theatre HHHHH).
tickets
$9
first performance
general audience • under 6 not admitted
75 min
Present State Movement
Sin Eater
Minneapolis, MN
by Tamara Ober From the creator/performer of the critically acclaimed Pipa (HHHHH “… one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in my life. This is art in the greatest sense of the word.” – CBC Manitoba).
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #804 20
12:00 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #823 22 #830
9:30 pm 10:15 pm
23 #835 24 #840 25 #846 26
27 #862 28 #868 29
“A versatile and creative artist redefines an extraordinary fantasy world.” – Voir, Montréal
7:30 pm
5:45 pm
Tamara Ober returns with a new dance theater solo. Glory is called home to her estranged and dying father who requests a Sin Eater. She pursues the dark beast through a haunted forest to save her father’s soul.
$10
4:00 pm
tickets
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #3243 25
8:30 pm
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #3218 20 #3214 21 #3218 22 #3226
Highlighted Performances offer a 2 for $10 ticket price
7:00 pm
5:30 pm 12:00 pm 2:15 pm
26
27 #3265 28 #3268 29
10:30 pm 3:30 pm
1:45 pm
$9
strobe lights
3:30 pm
seniors
general audience • under 8 not admitted
WARNING 50
Sunday 22 #826
23 #833 24 #838 25
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Hansom Cab Killer
Join Holmes and Watson as they race through the cobbled streets of London to catch a killer! Will they succeed? Will the Empire topple? Will Mrs. Hudson have to clean up the mess?
venue sponsor
6:30 pm
23 #832 24 #844 25 #848 26
The Seducer’s Diary
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective the world has ever known. Dr. Watson is the world’s greatest detective sidekick. Mrs. Hudson is the world’s greatest … housekeeper?
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Sunday 22 #828
60 min
EXCHANGE
DISTRICT HISTORIC WALKING TOURS
www.exchangedistrict.org
TOURS RUN MONDAY - SATURDAY JUNE - AUGUST
See where it all began on a guided walking tour of Winnipegâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most colourful and history-rich neighbourhood. Exchange District BIZ Tour prices range from $5-$7 per person. Group rates are available. Children 10 and under are free. All tours depart from Old Market Square.
Sponsors:
East Exchange West Exchange Specialty Theme Tours Call 204.942.6716 to book your tour!
Phone: 204.942.6716 Email: info@exchangedistrict.org Website: www.exchangedistrict.org
venue
2 Forks Market Rd. | The Forks (free parking)
SHAW PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE (MTYP)
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By Azana
Aerial Allusions
San Francisco, CA
by Azana Pilar
www.byazana.com
Aerial Allusions is the fusion of multiple performance styles – dance, aerials, clown and theatre – to portray human emotions. It depicts the struggle of gender roles. It addresses insecurities and confusion, the ways we relate to each other and ourselves. It expresses feminine and masculine perspectives. There is philosophy, humor, chaos and control. Monologues and dance solos share inner reflection, dance duos express the connections between people. Music ties it all together into a dynamic and fluid journey of the soul.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #908 20 #916 21
23
24 #941 25
26 #953 27 #962 28 #973 29 #976
4:00 pm
12:00 pm 3:30 pm 10:30 pm 4:45 pm
7:15 pm
$10
tickets
$6
9:15 pm
6:00 pm
students • seniors
60 min
mature audience
WARNING
Sunday 22 #928
language • nudity
Theatre Outgrabe
Artichoke Heart
Winnipeg, MB
by Jessy Ardern, Michelle Elrick & Gordon Tanner Peter doesn’t like it when people get too close. Wild parties are not his thing. Letting his guard down is not his thing. Going home with a stranger is definitely not his thing. But Maria picked him out. She took him home. Undressed him piece by piece. Peter has never felt like this before. But Maria doesn’t like it when people stay too long … Inspired by Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Artichoke.” What happens the morning after someone eats your heart?
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #903 19
Friday Saturday 20 #913 21
Sunday 22 #929
7:45 pm
10:15 pm
3:30 pm
23 #936 24
25 #947 26
27 #960 28 #972 29
6:45 pm
1:45 pm
12:00 pm 8:45 pm
$9
tickets
$7
students • fringe performers
60 min
mature audience
WARNING
language
Crosswalk Players
Cabaret
Landmark, MB
by John Kander, Fred Ebb & Joe Masteroff
www.crosswalkplayers.com
Set in 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power, you’re swept into the nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub where everything is “Beautiful.” Follow the young star Sally Bowles and her relationship with American writer Cliff Bradshaw, as the Klub’s mischievous Emcee serves as a constant metaphor for the tenuous and threatening state of Germany.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #910 20 #917 21 #920 22 #925
23
24 #945 25
26 #959 27
11:00 pm
10:45 pm
10:45 pm 11:00 pm 3:15 pm 12:00 pm
$10
29 #978
28
8:15 pm
tickets mature audience • under 14 not admitted
WARNING
105 min
subject matter • suggestive themes
Small Matters Productions
Fools for Love
Edmonton, AB www.smallmatters.ca
275
venue sponsor
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One adrenaline-pumped night, two best friends discover they have been overlooking what’s right under their noses. But can friendship survive a romance? The Rocket & Sheshells origin story from the company that brought you Sofa So Good: HHHH “wicked, well-conceived comedy” – Uptown Magazine HHHH “turned my head upside down when it comes to clowns” – CBC Manitoba HHHH “heartwarming and hilarious” – The StarPhoenix HHHH “insanely creative” – SEE Magazine
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #909 20
9:00 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #921 22
5:45 pm
23 #933 24 #943 25 #946 26 #954 27 #966 28 #969 29
1:45 pm
$10
7:30 pm 12:00 pm 1:45 pm 10:15 pm 3:30 pm
tickets
$8
students • seniors
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language
winnipegfringe.com
60 min
Dependent Theatre Productions
Huff
Toronto, ON
Monday 16
by Cliff Cardinal Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #901 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #911 21 #919 22 #930 27 #964 28 #970 29
12:00 pm
3:30 pm
7:00 pm
$10
9:30 pm
5:15 pm
tickets 60 min
mature audience
WARNING
Wrought with dark humour, Huff weaves a violent, spellbinding tale. Modern pace mixed with First Nations myth meets biting stand-up routine. Video games and trickster collide and Huff conjures a theatrical storm. Director: Karin Randoja | Designer: Elizabeth Kantor
subject matter • language
Sinéad Cormack
In/side the Box
Carlow, Ireland
by Sinéad Cormack
www.sineadcormack.com Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #912 21 #923 22 #931
1:45 pm
9:15 pm 11:15 pm
23 #935 24 #940 25 #950 26
27 #961 28
29 #977
5:00 pm
1:45 pm
6:30 pm
$10
2:15 pm
7:30 pm
tickets mature audience
WARNING
language
You can be whatever you want to be. You just have to work really hard for it. You have to be nice and polite, pretty and obliging … Hmm, I’m not so sure …
SHAW PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE (MTYP)
12:00 pm 1:30 pm
25 #948 26
9 2 Forks Market Rd. | The Forks (free parking)
7:00 pm 23 #932 24
Huff is a new one-man show by Cliff Cardinal about the wondrous lives of Wind and his brothers. Wind’s gas-induced dream world bleeds into his haunting reality as he’s preyed on by the trickster through his own fragile psyche in the abandoned motel he loves more than home.
venue
A multimedia performance about what we want and how we want to get it. An ensemble dance performed by a solo performer, who constructs and deconstructs her own rules … and boxes.
60 min
275
venue
2 Forks Market Rd. | The Forks (free parking)
SHAW PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE (MTYP)
9
Ten Thousand Wolves
Leave the Radio On
Vancouver, BC
by Barbara Adler & Gavin Youngash
www.proudanimal.com
Podcast nerds, CBC obsessives and hopelessly addicted NPR fans: this is for you. Barbara Adler (formerly of five-star Fringe group The Fugitives) and Proud Animal bring you comedy-assisted learning with a musical flair. Stories of small town British Columbia, homework, accordion power rock and the world’s second or third analogue PowerPoint presentation. When we say “come again,” we mean it: every show is different. Send us homework and download podcasts of previous shows at www.proudanimal.com.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 #902 19 #907 20
Saturday Sunday 21 #918 22
8:45 pm
12:00 pm
5:45 pm
23 #934 24
25 #951 26 #956 27 #965 28 #968 29
3:30 pm
9:15 pm
$8
tickets
$7
5:45 pm
8:45 pm
matinees • students • unemployed Fringe performers
Poor Theatre Company
The Poor Fools present Tutti Fooli: A Commedia dell’Arte
Morden, MB www.poortheatrecompany.com
The Poor Fools present Tutti Fooli, a Commedia dell’Arte scenario with a contemporary twist. Commedia dell’Arte thrived in Renaissance Italy and now you can experience it today, contemporized, with all its classic fixings including masks, physicality, improv, audience interaction, slapstick and lazzi. And don’t just enjoy this orgasmic experience once, but multiple times, since every night will be different! You may have missed the Commedia dell’Arte experience seven centuries ago, but don’t miss your chance today!
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #906 20 #914 21
23
24 #942 25 #952 26 #957 27
28 #971 29
5:45 pm 10:45 pm 7:15 pm
7:00 pm
4:00 pm
$8
tickets
$5
5:15 pm
60 min
subject matter • language
Burnt Thicket Theatre
She Has a Name
Calgary, AB
by Andrew Kooman
www.shehasaname.net
Haunted by anguished voices, a lawyer poses as a john to build a legal case against a brothel trafficking girls into Bangkok. Can Jason win the trust of a young prostitute known only as Number 18 and convince her to risk her life to testify for the sake of justice? Inspired by an event in April 2008, Andrew Kooman’s She Has a Name dramatically gives human trafficking a face.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #905 20 #915 21 #924 22
1:45 pm
7:00 pm 11:00 pm
23 #937 24 #939 25 #949 26 #955 27
8:30 pm 12:00 pm 5:15 pm
$10
HHHH “She Has a Name [is] a heart-wrenching hit” – Louis B. Hobson, The Calgary Sun
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29
3:30 pm
tickets mature audience • under 14 not admitted
WARNING
90 min
subject matter • language • nudity
Aerial Angels Kalamazoo, MI www.angelsintheair.com
Sideshow. Strip show. Talk show. Cell phones, death, revenge and the senior prom. A trapeze artist trying to fly hosts a profound comedy about the most important thing you’re carrying with you, and why you may need to put it down. HHHHH “Hilarious and compelling” – London Free Press HHHH “Wrenchingly funny” – NOW Toronto “Remarkable emotional moments” – Globe and Mail “Mesmerizing” – Theatre in London
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2:30 pm
mature audience
WARNING
Sunday 22 #926
matinees • students • seniors Equity members • Fringe performers
by Allison Williams
venue sponsor
45 min
general audience • under 12 not admitted
TRUE STORY 275
2:00 pm
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #904 20
12:00 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #922 22 #927
7:30 pm
4:15 pm
23 #938 24 #944 25
26 #958 27 #963 28 #967 29
10:45 pm 9:15 pm
9:00 pm
$10
tickets
$9
5:15 pm 12:15 pm
students • seniors
mature audience • under 12 not admitted
WARNING
www.facebook.com/WinnipegFringe
subject matter • language • nudity
60 min
venue
190 Rupert Ave. | Theatre on lower level
PLANETARIUM AUDITORIUM
10
The Roguespeare Players
BAD GIRLS: Sunny Side Up
Calgary, AB www.fringetour.blogspot.ca
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. This naughty, bawdy, sexy collection of short plays is filled with twisted fun and wicked gals.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
10:30 pm 7:30 pm
3:30 pm 12:00 pm
Featuring The Highwaywoman and Screwing Satan.
23
24 #1044 25
26 #1054 27
28 #1073 29
8:30 pm
1:45 pm
10:30 pm
Also check out BAD GIRLS: Dangerous Curves.
$10
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1010 20 #1015 21 #1020 22 #1025
tickets 75 min
mature audience
WARNING
language • nudity
Big Sandwich Productions
Bookworm
Vancouver, BC
by Corin Raymond
www.dontspendithoney.com
A story of a father reading to his son, growing up in a library, Spider-Man, Ray Bradbury and meeting the Minotaur for the first time just outside Wawa. Coached, coerced and cajoled into existence by TJ Dawe. “Corin Raymond is a storyteller who by the end of the night you’ll have known your whole life.” – The Globe and Mail
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #1001 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #1016 21 #1018 22
7:00 pm
9:30 pm 12:00 pm
23 #1033 24 #1045 25 #1049 26 #1053 27 #1066 28
$10
tickets 60 min
general audience
The Baggy Pants
The Fat Guy Show
Seattle, WA
by Christopher Bange
www.thebaggypants.com
The Fat Guy’s dream is to be the greatest magician in the world and his only true friend is Neil Diamond! Clown, magic and theatrical madness explode as he is faced with his most enormous obstacle. Will the fat guy lose everything? Or will Neil Diamond save his soul? “Part mime, part comedian and part wizard! Bange’s blend of physical comedy and magic means that even a simple sleight of hand can be hilarious or mystifying.” HHHH – Winnipeg Sun
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #1003 19
Friday Saturday 20 #1012 21
Sunday 22 #1027
3:45 pm
10:30 pm
2:00 pm
23 #1037 24
25 #1051 26
27 #1060 28 #1071 29
8:30 pm
9:00 pm
12:00 pm 7:00 pm
$10
tickets 75 min
general audience
WARNING
language
Ashek Theatre
The First Canadian President Of The United States
Edmonton, AB
by Jem Rolls 230
venue sponsor
Meet Kimberley White-White. She’s a very nice girl and she likes to run. Watch as she runs right across Canada and straight into Parliament. Then gasp as she and her bad Daddy, and her chutney-loving husband Todd, run from Sussex Drive right to the very top, higher than any Canadian has ever gone before. Nancy McAlear directs Priscilla Yakielashek in a fastpaced satirical farce from Fringe favourite Jem Rolls.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1007 20 #1013 21 #1023 22
5:15 pm
4:00 pm
9:00 pm
23 #1038 24 #1040 25 #1050 26
27 #1063 28 #1069 29
10:30 pm 1:45 pm
5:15 pm
$10
7:15 pm
3:30 pm
tickets general audience • under 12 not admitted
56
29
1:30 pm 10:30 pm 5:30 pm 12:00 pm 10:45 pm
www.twitter.com/WinnipegFringe • #wpgfringe
60 min
Stacey Hallal
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #1009 20
8:45 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #1021 22 #1031
5:30 pm 11:15 pm
6:45 pm
12:00 pm
3:30 pm 12:00 pm 10:45 pm
tickets
$8
WARNING
“Irregardless is funny, well-conceived and, for a comedy show, unexpectedly poignant.” – WW
matinees • students • seniors Fringe performers
“Hallal is sharp, irreverent and a bit nerdy, with great comedic range, but what sets this show apart are the moments of fragile sincerity embedded in the jokes.” – Portland Mercury
60 min
mature audience language
Sinful Hags
Mamasita Can’t Do It All
Montreal, QC
by Raire Hoken
www.rairehoken.livejournal.com Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #1006 20
3:45 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #1024 22
10:45 pm
Despite the wrought tumultuousness of accepting that she – the Hag – lives wildly in our collective feminine, we have been called to behold what she has to offer.
23 #1032 24 #1043 25
26 #1056 27 #1061 28 #1072 29
A riddle from the Hags:
12:00 pm 7:00 pm
5:30 pm
What you want to see, what you don’t want to see, It’s all in you, it’s all in me What’s the story? There are a few Some are old and some are new. All of them borrowed, Some of them blue But mumma sitta can’t. do. it. all.
$8
tickets
$6
2:00 pm
9:00 pm
matinees • students • seniors unemployed • Equity members Fringe performers
45 min
mature audience
WARNING
PLANETARIUM AUDITORIUM
28 #1067 29
In her solo comedy show Irregardless, comedian Stacey Hallal moves effortlessly from sketches to stand-up, songs to storytelling, delivering smart, sharp insights with such wit and charm that you never even feel the sting.
190 Rupert Ave. | Theatre on lower level
23 #1036 24 #1041 25 #1046 26 #1059 27
$10
10
by Stacey Hallal
www.staceyhallal.com Monday 16
venue
Irregardless
Portland, OR
subject matter • language
230
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venue
190 Rupert Ave. | Theatre on lower level
PLANETARIUM AUDITORIUM
10
Phoenix Productions
Murder at the Fringe
Winnipeg, MB
by Liz Farler
www.members.shaw.ca/phxprods
Playwright/director Misty and Producer Ken have always dreamed of getting even with the critics who have dogged their careers. They come up with the idea of doing a Fringe play where they will humiliate and pretend to kill all the critics. With the help of some willing actors, they put their plans in action but will their lust for revenge go too far? Does someone have more sinister plans?
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #1008 20 #1017 21
7:00 pm 11:15 pm 26 #1058 27
28 #1070 29
3:15 pm 12:00 pm
9:00 pm
5:15 pm
$10
tickets
$9
fringe performers
60 min
mature audience
WARNING
gunshots
JonBennettComedy.com
Pretending Things are a Cock
Melbourne, Australia
by Jon Bennett
www.jonbennettcomedy.com
After critically acclaimed performances to sell-out audiences in festivals around the world AND a legion of Cock fans – Australian comedic artist Jon Bennett brings his Just for Laughs – Best Comedy Awardnominated show of over 300 pretend cocks to the Winnipeg Fringe! A unique stand-up experience, Pretending Things are a Cock is part photographic exhibition, part pot-holed journey into the idiosyncratic world of Jon Bennett.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #1004 20
23
24 #1042 25 #1052 26 #1055 27 #1064 28 #1068 29
12:00 pm 5:15 pm 11:00 pm 3:45 pm
$10
tickets
$8
WARNING
1:45 pm 7:00 pm
9:30 pm
1:45 pm
students • seniors
60 min
language
Fringetastic!
Vernus Says SURPRISE
Ottawa, ON www.emanate.ca
Vernus is an 89-year-old man who never gets the chance to speak. Today, he is determined to find the perfect gift for his granddaughter – even if he has a little trouble getting there. Fringetastic! presents Emanate Productions’ Vernus Says SURPRISE, a comedy/drama/clown/mime adventure written and performed by Ken Godmere and directed by Tania Levy.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #1002 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #1014 21 #1022 22 #1026
8:45 pm
5:45 pm
23 #1035 24
25 #1047 26
27 #1062 28
5:00 pm
1:45 pm
$10
7:15 pm
2:00 pm 29 #1077
3:30pm
7:00 pm
tickets 60 min
general audience
Randy Rutherford Presents
The Water Is Wide
San Francisco, CA
by Randy Rutherford
www.randyrutherford.net
Randy Rutherford returns with a new show about Roxanne, the imaginary stenographer who helps him make sense of the gibberish he hears. Randy is caught between two women. Sophie thinks a vegan diet of tofu and rutabagas may cure Randy’s hearing loss. Roxanne prefers fried baloney sandwiches smothered in real mayonnaise. And she’s insanely jealous. And she’s not real.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #1005 20 #1011 21
23
24
25 #1048 26 #1057 27 #1065 28
29 #1076
3:30 pm
5:00 pm
1:45 pm 12:00 pm
$10
Winner of London’s Brickenden Award: Best Solo Performer HHHHH “Exceptionally fine” – London Free Press
58
Saturday Sunday 21 #1019 22 #1030
mature audience
HHHH – Edmonton Journal HHHH – VUE Weekly HHHH – Time Out Magazine
In our busy, noisy, fast-paced world, sometimes it is the quietest characters who share the most.
venue sponsor
5:45 pm
23 #1034 24 #1039 25
by Ken Godmere
230
Sunday 22 #1028
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #3243 25
8:30 pm
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #3218 20 #3214 21 #3218 22 #3226
Highlighted Performances offer a 2 for $10 ticket price
7:00 pm
5:30 pm 12:00 pm 2:15 pm
26
27 #3265 28 #3268 29
10:30 pm 3:30 pm
7:00 pm
8:45 pm
Sunday 22 #1029
7:30 pm
tickets general audience • under 14 not admitted
75 min
venue
London, ON
by Vanessa Quesnelle
A woman awakes to discover she is at the bottom of a deep hole – and the only way out is to embark upon a fantastically wide-eyed trip through pockets of space and time. An unforgettable journey.
160 Princess St.
RED RIVER COLLEGE
11
Concrete Drops
The Abyss Burrow Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #1104 20
23
24 #1142 25 #1152 26 #1155 27 #1165 28 #1168 29
12:00 pm
Best Actress Award, London Fringe 2011
5:45 pm 11:15 pm 3:30 pm
“Quesnelle’s timing is right on.” – Plank Magazine, Vancouver
$10
8:45 pm
“Gifted performer.” – Edmonton Sun
1:45 pm
45 min
general audience
“Quesnelle is a natural.” – Beat Magazine, London
Broken Still Productions
The Darling Family
Winnipeg, MB
by Linda Griffiths
It’s the summer of 1988. As they face the dilemma of an unplanned pregnancy, a couple’s decision to search beyond their trivial self-definition to face every thought, every option becomes a path to healing, courage and growth. “Lacerating dialogues. Self-lacerating monologues. Dream memory and fantasy futures … No distractions. No formality.” – Toronto Sun
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #1109 20 #1117 21
Sunday 22
8:45 pm 10:45 pm 23 #1135 24 #1139 25 #1148 26 #1157 27
28 #1170 29
5:15 pm 12:00 pm 3:30 pm
5:15 pm
$10
tickets
$8
6:45 pm
matinees • students • seniors Equity members • Fringe performers unemployed
mature audience • under 12 not admitted
90 min
subject matter • language • herbal cigarettes
Annette Roman
Hitler’s Li’l Abomination
California/East Prussia/Budapest
by Annette Roman
www.annetteroman.wordpress.com
Her father is a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Her mother was in the Hitler Youth. What the devil is she …?! Spanning three cultures and four generations, this solo show features the Russian Front, Holocaust bedtime stories and cross-cultural bridge at the senior center. One TRUE legacy of war and ethnic conflict. You are cordially invited to tea and swastikas … “Poignant and insightful.” – Huffington Post
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #1106 20
3:30 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #1124 22 #1126
10:30 pm 1:45 pm
23 #1132 24 #1143 25
26 #1156 27 #1162 28 #1172 29
12:00 pm 7:15 pm
5:00 pm
$10
“Very funny, sharply written. Your sense of irony will do back flips.” – Marsh Theatre
tickets
$8
3:30 pm
9:15 pm
students • seniors
60 min
general audience
The Horrible Friends
The Horrible Friends: Addition by Subtraction
Winnipeg, MB
by The Horrible Friends
www.go.to/horriblefriends
The Horrible Friends have reduced their numbers by one, thereby increasing their average height by more than a foot … but don’t think the jokes will go over your head! Shawn and Luke will take even the basest suggestion and find previously unheard of lows from which to derive comedic gold, and everyone knows that gold can only be found underground. Where dead people live. Or not live as the case may be. Science!
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #1102 19
Friday Saturday 20 #1114 21
Sunday 22 #1127
3:30 pm
8:45 pm
5:15 pm
23 #1137 24
25 #1146 26
27 #1161 28 #1171 29
9:30 pm
12:00 pm
1:45 pm
$9
tickets
$7
WARNING
subject matter • language • nudity
winnipegfringe.com
7:30 pm
matinees • Fringe performers
mature audience
60
7:00 pm
tickets
WARNING
venue sponsor
2:00 pm
“Superb performer.” – CBC
“… smart, tough, tender … an extremely brave play.” – Winnipeg Free Press
100
Saturday Sunday 21 #1119 22 #1129
60 min
Jurasco Productions
Human Rites
Beausejour, MB
by Wayne James
Wednesday Thursday 18 #1103 19
23
24 #1140 25 #1151 26
27 #1166 28
2:15 pm
10:15 pm
10:30 pm
$10
tickets
1:45 pm
9:30 pm
$7
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #1112 21 #1122 22 #1128
7:00 pm
5:15 pm 29
matinees • students • seniors kids (12 & under) • unemployed Fringe performers
60 min
general audience
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” – Universal Declaration of Human Rights It is through a shared vision that we achieve, but in today’s hectic lifestyle we need ask, “to what purpose?” From under the shadow of the Museum of Human Rights, a one-man show questions the premise of understanding in what it means to be free.
Seismic Shift Productions
Lost and Left Behind
Vancouver, BC
by Brent Hirose
www.brenthirose.com Monday 16
Tuesday 17
11:00 pm 7:00 pm
5:15 pm 12:00 pm
23
24 #1144 25
26 #1153 27
28 #1173 29
9:00 pm
12:00 pm
11:00 pm
$10
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1110 20 #1115 21 #1121 22 #1125
tickets general audience
60 min
11
Brent Hirose returns to Winnipeg with his new show about leaving Winnipeg … and returning to the city from where his grandparents had been relocated during World War II. By the writer/performer of last year’s smash hit The Sucker Punch: HHHHH “Don’t miss this one for the world.” – Uptown HHHH “a truly rich Fringe experience” – StarPhoenix HHHH “A thought-provoking concept” – Winnipeg Free Press “Hirose is a superb performer” – CBC
RED RIVER COLLEGE
Tuesday 17
160 Princess St.
Monday 16
venue
100
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2 Lombard Place, Wpg, MB R3B 0Y3 I www.fairmont.com/winnipeg
venue
Berkeley, CA
by Elaine Magree
www.elainemagree.com
What part Indian are you? And what’s up with the ex-nun and the box of human remains?! Elaine, intrepid lesbian, turkey-baster mom and childhood abuse survivor, sets out at 60 to untangle the story of her mixed heritage. If only that were ALL she’d inherited from her dramatically disturbed mother. Fun for dysfunctionals, genealogists, social activists, anyone who loves their family despite it all, and for the deeply hopeful.
160 Princess St.
RED RIVER COLLEGE
11
Elaine Magree
Pilgrimage: Why I’m not an Indian Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1105 20 #1116 21 #1118 22
1:30 pm
8:45 pm 12:00 pm
23 #1136 24
25 #1149 26 #1159 27
28 #1169 29
7:30 pm
5:45 pm 10:45 pm
3:15 pm
$9
tickets
students • seniors • disabled Fringe performers
$7
75 min
mature audience • under 12 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language
Cameryn Moore
power | play (choose your own adventure)
Boston, MA
by Cameryn Moore
www.slutrevolution.com
Sometimes you look at someone and they look at you, and there’s a spark. What happens next? The audience decides, in this lyrical, motivational and intensely intimate storytelling journey into sex itself. From the creator of slut (r)evolution (Best of Fest, 2011 Winnipeg Fringe) and Phone Whore (HHHH½ – Victoria Times Colonist; Best Female Solo, 2010 San Francisco Fringe).
Monday 16
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
18 #1101 19
17
7:00 pm
Friday
Saturday
20 #1111 21
12:00 pm
8:30 pm
23 #1134 24 #1145 25 #1147 26
27 #1164 28
29 #1176
3:30 pm 10:45 pm 1:45 pm
7:00 pm
4:15 pm
$10
tickets 60 min
mature audience • under 18 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language • nudity
John Montgomery Theatre Company
Preparation Hex
New York, NY
by Bob Brader
www.jmtcinc.com
Love is not the only ring of fire. This hemorrhoid tale and love story is New York monologuist Bob Brader’s comic odyssey to get the girl and live to love her. “Storytelling gold … Don’t miss this alchemist of the anecdote” – Theatre in London From the creative team that brought you last year’s Spitting in the Face of the Devil. HHHHH “Brader keeps the audience mesmerized with his dark comic relief.” – Uptown HHHH “Unforgettable!” – Winnipeg Free Press
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1107 20 #1113 21 #1123 22
5:15 pm
29 #1177
11:15 pm
7:45 pm
6:00 pm
$10
1:45 pm 12:00 pm
tickets mature audience • under 16 not admitted
WARNING
60 min
subject matter • language
Nobody’s Business Theatre Toronto, ON www.nobodysbusiness.ca
Nicholas is a redheaded stepchild. Literally. And tomorrow at lunch, the biggest boy in grade six plans to beat him up.
Monday 16
Should he skip school? His stepmom Mary-Anne, a chainsmoking golf pro/ex-Jehovah’s Witness, says no. His alter ego, the stylish and fabulous Rufus Vermilion, has other ideas.
23 #1133 24 #1141 25
26 #1158 27 #1163 28 #1167 29
1:45 pm
9:00 pm
WINNER: 2010 Steam Whistle Emerging Artist Award – SummerWorks Festival HHHHH & Critic’s Pick, “Outstanding production, outstanding performance.” – NOW Magazine
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #1108 20
7:00 pm
$10
4:00 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #1120 22 #1131
3:30 pm 10:15 pm 5:15 pm 12:00 pm
tickets general audience
“A terrific, moving, very, very funny production.” – CBC Radio
62
8:45 pm
25 #1150 26 #1154 27 #1160 28
by Johnnie Walker
venue sponsor
3:30 pm
23 #1138 24
Redheaded Stepchild 100
Sunday 22 #1130
www.facebook.com/WinnipegFringe
60 min
proud sponsor of the Winnipeg fringe festival
venue
Calgary, AB www.fringetour.blogspot.ca
Good girls help you move, bad girls help you move the bodies. This collection of short plays features edgy, tough-talking, dangerous women you never want to cross. Come find out what happens when you do cross them.
300 Memorial Blvd.
WAG – MURIEL RICHARDSON AUDITORIUM
12
Glamorgan Productions
BAD GIRLS: Dangerous Curves
Also check out BAD GIRLS: Sunny Side Up.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 #1202 19 #1206 20
8:45 pm
3:30 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #1222 22 #1227
7:15 pm
5:00 pm
23 #1233 24
25 #1245 26 #1258 27
28 #1267 29
3:45 pm
12:00 pm 10:45 pm
1:45 pm
$10
tickets 75 min
mature audience
WARNING
language • nudity
The Probable Cast
The Big Stupid Improv Show
Winnipeg, MB www.improvfestival.blogspot.com
The Big Stupid Improv Show has been produced at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival for over a decade. The show brings together comedic performers, improvisers and actors who are in town touring their shows, and throws them onstage for a “Large” and somewhat “Silly” show. Come and see your favourite Fringe stars perform with your other favourite Fringe stars! As always, the show is hosted by Stephen Sim and Lee White of CRUMBS fame.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday 18 #1203 19
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #1213 21 #1221 22
10:45 pm
3:45 pm
5:30 pm
23 #1236 24
25 #1246 26 #1253 27
28 #1268 29
9:30 pm
2:00 pm
8:00 pm
$8
1:45 pm
tickets 60 min
GENERAL audience
Fubuki Daiko
Fubuki Daiko: Godzilla vs. Led Zeppelin
Winnipeg, MB
by Fubuki Daiko
www.fubuki.ca
In ancient Japan, taiko drums were used to frighten invaders, inspire troops in battle and call the gods. For the past 17 years, Fubuki Daiko has been reinventing this traditional art form. Merging primal roots with modern sensibilities, the group has thrilled audiences across North America with their musicianship, humour and sheer physical stamina. Don’t miss this non-stop, no holds barred percussive display that is part martial arts athleticism, part dance and all rhythm.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #1208 20 #1214 21
7:15 pm
Sunday 22
5:30 pm
23 #1232 24 #1241 25 #1250 26
27 #1264 28 #1266 29
2:00 pm
9:15 pm 12:00 pm
$10
5:30 pm
9:15 pm
$9
tickets
SENIORS • kids (12 & under)
60 min
general audience
WARNING
loud drumming
ImproVision
ImproVision: VooDoo Burlesque
Winnipeg, MB www.improvision.ca
300
venue sponsor
You couldn’t be more naked on stage than when stripped of scripts and performing the dark magic known as short-form improv. In the grand tradition of Gypsy Rose Lee and Papa Shango, ImproVision trots out their naughtiest bits, while aroused audiences stick them with suggestions (or mousetraps and clothespins) like voodoo dolls. HHHHH “Kings of short-form improv” – CBC Manitoba
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #1212 21 #1223 22
2:00 pm
9:15 pm
23 #1235 24 #1238 25 #1251 26
27 #1265 28
29 #1274
7:45 pm 12:00 pm 11:00 pm
11:00 pm
6:45 pm
$9
tickets mature audience
WARNING 64
Wednesday Thursday 18 19
subject matter • language • nudity
www.twitter.com/WinnipegFringe • #wpgfringe
60 min
Art and Lies Productions
In Adagio
Toronto, ON
by Jess Salgueiro
www.artandliesproductions.com Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #1209 20 #1211 21
9:00 pm 12:00 pm
10:45 pm
27 #1263 28 #1270 29
12:00 pm
3:45 pm
7:15 pm 11:30 pm
tickets 75 min
general audience
WARNING
language • gunshots
aztec theatre
The Insomniac’s Tenant
Winnipeg, MB
by Alison Vargo & Chris Sabel
www.aztec-theatre.tumblr.com Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #1204 20 #1216 21
23
24 #1244 25 #1248 26 #1256 27 #1260 28
12:00 pm 9:00 pm 10:45 pm 5:45 pm
$10
$8
tickets
7:00 pm
3:15 pm
A dark comedy by the company that brought you The Horror of Macbeth (“Wickedly good” HHHH – Winnipeg Free Press) and The Red Handkerchief (“Absolutely charming” HHHH – CBC).
29
2:00 pm
matinees • students • seniors unemployed • Equity members
60 min
mature audience
WARNING
A reclusive apartment superintendent finds his life altered after letting an abrasive yet charismatic tenant into his life.
Sunday 22 #1226
WAG – MURIEL RICHARDSON AUDITORIUM
25 #1247 26
12 300 Memorial Blvd.
23 #1231 24
$10
Set in the ‘60s, two singers are billed at Paris’ legendary Palais Garnier: the reigning queen of opera and the sensational new face of the Portuguese Fado. Due to the tense climate of the Algerian War, a bomb threat is made on the theatre and the two performers are trapped. The women discover a way to use the empty stage to showcase their distinct styles of music and the striking harmony of their own fears and obsessions.
Sunday 22 #1230
venue
300
subject matter • language
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venue
Winnipeg, MB
by Gio Navarro
300 Memorial Blvd.
WAG – MURIEL RICHARDSON AUDITORIUM
12
Monkey Centurion Productions
N.C.S.I.S.N.Y.P.D. (aka The Procedural)
www.monkeycenturion.com
If you like NCIS, CSI, CSI: NY, CSI: Miami, The Mentalist, Castle, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: UK and Gilmore Girls, then you’ll love:
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
N.C.S.I.S.N.Y.P.D. (a.k.a. The Procedural)
23
24 #1242 25
26 #1255 27
7:15 pm
5:15 pm
From the creator of the MIA Network smash hit C.S.I Love You comes a crime drama that’s even more similar to other crime dramas than any other crime drama before it.
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1205 20 #1215 21 #1218 22 #1225
1:45 pm
$9
7:15 pm 12:00 pm 1:30 pm 29 #1275
28
8:30 pm
tickets 60 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language • gunshots
Kimmy Zee
Stretchmarks
Winnipeg, MB
by Kim Zeglinski, Heather Witherden, “Miss Robin Red Breast” & Harmony Parent From the producer who brought you Breast Friends! (HHHHH – Winnipeg Free Press, Fringe 2010) The bevy of buxom beauties is back! Some familiar, some fresh, all fabulous! A theatrical revue about motherhood and sex. (Yes, MOMS have SEX!) The only way to get laid is to JUST. GET. LAID! Come see some, so you can get some.
www.kimmyzee.com Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #1207 20
23
24 #1243 25
26 #1252 27 #1261 28 #1269 29
9:00 pm
12:00 pm 3:45 pm
5:30 pm
$8
(Satisfaction-Guaranteed-Some-Restrictions-Apply-NoRefunds.)
Saturday Sunday 21 #1224 22 #1228
11:00 pm 7:00 pm 9:45 pm
tickets 60 min
mature audience • under 16 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language • nudity • sexual content
Two Unruly Gentlemen
Two Corpses Go Dancing
Saskatoon, SK
Adapted by Andrew Taylor | Based on the short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer Two Corpses Go Dancing is a Yiddish folk tale of two dead and forgotten souls, Itche and Finkle, brought back to life by a dybbuk (demon) who promises them an opportunity to reclaim what they lost in their former life. Mischief, chaos and disorder ensue. A musical comedy of darker nature that reflects the losing of love, faith and one’s soul. Based on the short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday 18 19 #1210 20
11:00 pm
Saturday Sunday 21 #1219 22 #1229
1:45 pm
26 #1257 27 #1259 28
29 #1273
5:45 pm
8:45 pm 12:00 pm
4:45 pm
$10
HHHH – Saskatoon StarPhoenix & Planet S magazine
3:30 pm
tickets
$7
students • seniors • fringe performers
75 min
mature audience • under 16 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language
Stars And Hearts
Underbelly
London, ON
by Jayson McDonald 300
venue sponsor
Willy is a pharmaceutical astronaut in search of the whats and the wherefores, cutting and pasting narrative over a backdrop of urban decay and suburban clot, and mapping the Underbelly for future malcontents. A fevered hallucination inspired by the life and work of William S. Burroughs and The Beats. From the creator of Giant Invisible Robot, Boat Load and Gunpowder.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #3243 25
8:30 pm
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #3218 20 #3214 21 #3218 22 #3226
11:15 pm 1:45 pm
$10
5:30 pm 12:00 pm 2:15 pm 27 #3265 28 #3268 29
10:30 pm 3:30 pm
Friday Saturday Sunday 20 #1217 21 #1220 22
7:00 pm
10:45 pm 3:45 pm
7:30 pm
3:30 pm
29
5:30 pm
tickets mature audience • under 16 not admitted
Highlighted Performances offer a 2 for $10 ticket price
7:00 pm 26
Wednesday Thursday 18 #1201 19
23 #1237 24 #1239 25 #1249 26 #1254 27 #1262 28
WARNING 66
8:45 pm
23 #1234 24 #1240 25
subject matter • language
60 min
For whose hands will Frankie’s baby reach, after Frankie leaves? David ‘s and Evie’s
(Frankie’s brother and sister-in-law, who insist the child must stay in the family)?
Happy 25th Anniversary to the
Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival !
Or Adrian’s (her ex-
boyfriend, who is the father but lives in a new relationship)?
Frankie has to make a momentous decision:
Shades of Grey Fringe Venue 6 MTC Warehouse Wednesday July 18th, 10:30 pm Thursday July 19th, 5:00 pm Saturday July 21st, 3:00 pm Monday July 23rd, 9:30 pm Wednesday July 25th, 7:15 pm Friday July 27th, 4:00 pm Saturday July 28th, 11:00 pm
From R-G Productions, who brought Choosing Home to the 2011 Fringe
Maralee Caruso
Gord Leclerc
venue
ASPER CENTRE for THEATRE and FILM (U of W)
400 Colony St. | Enter from Balmoral St. (south of Ellice Ave.)
13
155
Femmes du Feu
Airship
Toronto, ON
by Femmes du Feu
www.femmesdufeu.com
Femmes du Feu presents their latest aerial dance show, Airship. Steampunk-inspired, Airship imagines an alternative technology in the early explorations of flight, revealing the inner workings of a ship powered by human movement. Performed by Sabrina Pringle, Holly Treddenick, Lara Ebata, Natalie Fullerton, with original music by James Zirco Fisher. Directed by Marc Richard.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #1302 19 #1305 20 #1308 21 #1312 22 #1315
8:00 pm
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
9:15 pm
5:00 pm
$10
Toronto’s Best of Fringe, Patrons’ Pick 2009 & 2010
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
5:00 pm
5:00 pm
3:45 pm
tickets 60 min
general audience
HHHHH “Stunning … as beautiful as it is remarkable” – Joff Schmidt, CBC Manitoba (The Plank, 2010)
8:00 pm
Martin Dockery
The Holy Land Experience
Brooklyn, NY
by Martin Dockery
www.MartinDockery.com
From a religious theme park in Orlando to Christmas Day in Bethlehem comes one man’s ineptly comic and exhilarating pursuit of something – anything – to believe in. Creator of sell-out shows Wanderlust, The Bike Trip and Bursting Into Flames, Dockery (“A masterful storyteller.” – The Herald Sun, Melbourne) weaves a true tale of faith and infidelity.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #1301 19 #1304 20 #1307 21 #1311 22 #1314
6:00 pm
5:30 pm
5:30 pm
7:15 pm
7:15 pm
23 #1318 24 #1319 25 #1324 26 #1327 27 #1330 28 #1331 29 #1335
9:15 pm
$10
“Astonishing. Exhilarating. This kind of theatre is church for us non-believers.” – Orlando Sentinel
5:00 pm
9:15 pm
9:15 pm
9:15 pm
6:00 pm
6:00 pm
tickets 75 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter
RibbitRepublic
Minding Dad
Edmonton, AB
by Kenneth Brown
www.ribbitrepublic.com
From the writer/director of the Spiral Dive trilogy comes a sweet, bitter and funny new play about loss, redemption and the lasting power of love. Jon Paterson (House, Letters in Wartime) plays a son trying to make his father’s life as rich as he can, while watching him gradually fade into the mist of Alzheimer’s. From the company behind the Fringe classics Grimmer than Grimm, BoyGroove, Be A Man and Pilk’s Madhouse.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #1303 19 #1306 20 #1309 21 #1310 22 #1313
9:45 pm
9:15 pm
9:15 pm
4:45 pm
7:15 pm
$10
9:15 pm
5:00 pm
7:15 pm
7:15 pm
9:45 pm
8:00 pm
tickets mature audience
WARNING
Yvette Nolan Playwright, director, dramaturg & educator First Production Assistant – Administration of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival
4:45 pm
23 #1317 24 #1321 25 #1322 26 #1326 27 #1329 28 #1333 29 #1336
75 min
language
“It may have been the second year … Keith [Tomasek] and Gary [Yates] doing Something Strange set off the fire alarms in the Planetarium Auditorium by juggling flaming torches, and the whole Concert Hall complex had to be evacuated. I think there was something on the main stage too – oh god, I hope it wasn’t Les Miz, but it might have been …”
68
9:15 pm
23 #1316 24 #1320 25 #1323 26 #1325 27 #1328 28 #1332 29 #1334
big word performance poetry
jem rolls: TEN STARTS AND AN END
England, UK
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1401 20 #1403 21 #1405 22 #1407
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
$10
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
tickets mature audience • under 18 not admitted
WARNING
60 min
language
HHHHH “Dynamic, hilarious, riveting … A high performance master.” – Winnipeg Free Press “Highest calibre … Brilliant … powerful genius.” HHHHH – Montreal Gazette
licensed venue
CRUMBS
Tonight Only
Winnipeg, MB
by Lee White & Stephen Sim
www.crumbscomedy.blogspot.com Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1402 20 #1404 21 #1406 22 #1408
9:30 pm
9:30 pm
9:30 pm
9:30 pm
23 #1410 24 #1412 25 #1414 26 #1416 27 #1418 28 #1420 29
9:30 pm
$10
9:30 pm
9:30 pm
9:30 pm
9:30 pm
9:30 pm
tickets mature audience • under 18 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language
licensed venue
60 min
Every CRUMBS show is inspired by the audience and is for “Tonight Only.” CRUMBS and DJ Hunnicutt tour the world with their improvised comedy show to rave reviews and packed venues. They’ve been selling out their shows here at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival so fast that you’d better get your tickets now. This show is like any other CRUMBS show: hilarious and amazing. And, as always, for “Tonight Only.”
the KING’S HEAD PUB
7:30 pm
14 120 King St. (2nd floor)
23 #1409 24 #1411 25 #1413 26 #1415 27 #1417 28 #1419 29
Jem Rolls returns for his 10th Winnipeg Fringe with a high-energy charge into the far joys of language. With a total victory in the war between the generations. The longest tongue twister in Canadian history. Some 100km/h wordplay. The occasional rise to the lyrical sublime. And an English zeal for dumb, dumber and smart jokes.
venue
130
venue
Winnipeg, MB
by Andrew Cecon
What happens when a regular everyday normal guy meets god and the devil?
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #1516 25 #1518 26 #1519 27 #1524 28 #1525 29
Fimbo, that’s what.
70 Albert St. (3rd floor)
STUDIO 320
15
take me home
Broken Wings
A darkly comedic love story about sex, identity and the blurred lines between good and evil. Brought to you by Fringe favourites Andrew Cecon, Brenda McLean, Rob McLaughlin and Claire Therese.
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #1502 19 #1505 20 #1506 21 #1509 22 #1514
8:00 pm 10:00 pm Midnight 8:00 pm 10:00 pm 10:00 pm 10:00 pm 6:00 pm 10:00 pm 6:00 pm
$10
tickets
$8
Fringe performers • Equity members unemployed
75 min
mature audience
WARNING
language
MUFF-Stache Collective
Lady Skits
Winnipeg, MB It began one naked, drunken hot tub night. After titful comparison, fretful debate on hair removal and voicing our vaginas, we aimed to change the world one ha-ha-ha at a time. Our collective creation (and bad boyfriends, F papers and insidious one-night stands) led to the obscurity of this sketchy comedy Lady Skits. In a dick joke-dominated world, let’s get some vagina up in heeere!
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1503 20 #1507 21 #1511 22 #1513
23
24 #1515 25
26 #1521 27 #1523 28 #1527 29
8:30 pm
10:00 pm 8:30 pm 10:00 pm
6:30 pm
$10
tickets
$8
8:30 pm Midnight 8:30 pm
students • seniors
45 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language
Snakeskin Jacket
States of Shock: A Vaudeville Nightmare
Winnipeg, MB
by Sam Shepard
www.snakeskinjacket.ca
An anniversary party dissolves into a grisly and hilarious battlefield as old wounds of war, sex and family betrayal are ripped open. From the company who brought you Under the Glacier, Fool for Love and Mary Rose.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #1501 19 #1504 20 #1508 21 #1510 22 #1512
23
24
25 #1517 26 #1520 27 #1522 28 #1526 29
6:00 pm 8:00 pm
$10
8:00 pm 10:00 pm 10:00 pm 6:30 pm 8:00 pm
6:30 pm
tickets mature audience • under 12 not admitted
56
WARNING
subject matter • language • gunshots
“[I was] performing in the women’s cabaret, nine months pregnant with a sleeping three-year-old backstage. I sang in a topless female barbershop quartet – a song called ‘M-O-T-H-E-R.’” Sharon Bajer Actor, director and playwright
70
8:00 pm
75 min
.COM
UPTOWNMAG NEWSARTS& ENGAGING
ENTERTAINMENT
venue
393 Portage Ave. (Portage Place, 3rd floor)
PTE – MAINSTAGE
16
Winnipeg Studio Theatre
Fresher, the Musical
Winnipeg, MB
by Mark Aspinall & Sally Torode
www.winnipegstudiotheatre.com
Fresher, a new pop/rock musical, follows five freshman students as they embark on their first year of university. Awkward drinking games, convoluted love triangles and raging hormones await the students as they negotiate the minefield of first impressions. A sharp-witted script, shamelessly truthful and touching, makes Fresher a charmer for anyone who is in university or anyone who went to university. A story that both resonates and entertains. Winner Best New Musical 2010 – MTM:UK Awards “Hilarious” – Guardian “A real Fringe hit!” – Scotsman
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #1602 19 #1603 20 #1608 21 #1614 22 #1615
23
24 #1622 25 #1627 26 #1628 27 #1634 28 #1637 29 #1640
8:45 pm 8:15 pm
$10
9:45 pm
4:00 pm 4:00 pm
5:45 pm 10:15 pm 4:00 pm 8:15 pm
90 min
mature audience • under 15 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language
Local Rascal Productions Toronto, ON
by TJ Dawe
www.tjdawe.ca
Fringe circuit perennial TJ Dawe (Lucky 9, The Slipknot, Totem Figures) returns with a story about a retreat led by Dr. Gabor Mate involving the ingestion of the Peruvian shamanic plant medicine ayahuasca and the exhumation of a great big secret. This is TJ’s 90-somethingth Fringe.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #1620 25 #1626 26 #1629 27 #1635 28 #1636 29
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1606 20 #1607 21 #1613 22 #1616
10:15 pm 4:00 pm 4:15 pm
$10
“A master monologist – he’s a true original and a total delight” – Toronto Star
8:00 pm
8:30 pm
6:15 pm
6:15 pm 10:30 pm 4:00 pm
tickets 60 min
mature audience • under 14 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language • sexual content
PKF Productions
The Progressive Polygamists: the Sweetest Reformers
Vancouver, BC
by Emmelia Wheelia & Pippa MacKie
www.progressive-polygamists.ca
From the producers of Fringe hits This is Cancer, Jake’s Gift, One-man Star Wars and One-man Lord of the Rings. What would it be like if your best friend was your sisterin-law AND your husband’s wife? Join the ‘sister wives’ and see why reviewers and audiences alike are calling The Progressive Polygamists a “relevant comic triumph.” Best of the Festival – Vancouver, Saskatoon HHHHH “See this show immediately.” – Saskatoon StarPhoenix HHHHH ”The Progressive Polygamists is pitch perfect.” – Planet S
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1605 20 #1610 21 #1612 22 #1618
8:30 pm 10:15 pm 6:15 pm 10:15 pm 23 #1619 24 #1621 25 #1625 26 #1631 27 #1632 28 #1638 29
8:00 pm
$10
6:00 pm
5:45 pm 10:15 pm 4:00 pm
8:30 pm
tickets 60 min
general audience • under 8 not admitted
WARNING
subject matter • language
Doctor Keir Co.
Teaching Hamlet
Montreal, QC
by Keir Cutler
www.keircutler.com
Teaching Hamlet is a fast-paced, hilarious, two-actor comedy featuring a Shakespeare performer and an Oxfordian intellect facing off in a battle of wits. Teaching Hamlet premiered at the 2011 Montreal Fringe Festival to rave reviews, and was chosen for the 2012 Wildside Festival. “An intelligent, hilarious word wrangle over authorship of the plays, as the worlds of theatre and academia are cleverly juxtaposed.” – Montreal Gazette
72
3:30 pm
tickets
Medicine
“Dawe has storytelling down to a fine art – his timing and delivery are masterful” – Vancouver Sun
320
5:45 pm
“Sharp and witty!” – CJAD
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #1601 19 #1604 20 #1609 21 #1611 22 #1617
23
24 #1623 25 #1624 26 #1630 27 #1633 28 #1639 29
7:00 pm 10:30 pm 4:00 pm
$10
6:15 pm 8:30 pm
8:30 pm
4:15 pm
8:30 pm
6:00 pm 10:15 pm
tickets general audience • under 10 not admitted
“Wildly amusing!” – The Charlebois Post
winnipegfringe.com
60 min
YOU CAN JOIN THE FUN!
Just looking for laughs or planning an acting career? PTE School offers: Advanced acting and professional training classes Adult classes for fun or skill-building Classes for teens and kids Performance opportunities for all classes
www.pte.mb.ca 5 great plays, one fabulous space in the heart of downtown.
2012/2013 SeaSon
See it all for as little as $99 for five plays. KATE HEwlETT & VINcE cAPPO
Featuring The Swearing Jar by Kate Hewlett, Best of Fringe, Toronto 2008 and Outstanding New Play, New York International Fringe Festival 2010.
Visit WWW.PTE.MB.CA for details
FREE HEATED UNDERGROUND PARKING for SubScriberS
Photos by David McKnight
New classes begin in October, 2012
venue
393 Portage Ave. (Portage Place, 3rd floor)
PTE – COLIN JACKSON STUDIO
17
Ryan Gladstone
No Tweed Too Tight
Vancouver, BC
by Ryan Gladstone with Bruce Horak
www.monstertheatre.com
More belligerent than an orangutan at a monkey shaving contest. More uncaring than a potato salad at a funeral. As inexplicable as a … you wouldn’t understand. The year is 1976. Grant Canyon is a perpetually inebriated insurance investigator. In his few coherent moments, he leaves a wake of dead bodies, satisfied ladies and empty bottles as he staggers toward a shocking and fiery conclusion.
Monday 16
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1702 20 #1708 21 #1713 22 #1715
3:45 pm
8:30 pm 10:30 pm 5:30 pm
23 #1719 24
25 #1724 26 #1727 27 #1732 28 #1733 29 #1738
8:45 pm
10:00 pm 8:15 pm 10:15 pm 5:30 pm
$10
HHHHH “Relentlessly clever and action-packed” – Edmonton Journal HHHH “Gladstone is a natural comedian.” – CBC
Tuesday 17
tickets
WARNING
subject matter • language • gunshots
Up your Nose and In your Toes (U.N.I.T.) Productions Toronto, ON
by Heather Marie Annis, Byron Laviolette & Amy Lee
www.morroandjasp.com
It’s the Great Depression and two migrant workers, Lennie and George, journey towards a new life, a new job and new dreams. A classic story of friendship, wrongful accusations, broken hope – oh, and Morro and Jasp. The clown sisters take on Steinbeck’s timeless tale … Let there be rabbits. 2010 Canadian Comedy Award nominees “Two of the most original clowns on the Canadian scene” – Toronto Star “Hysterical” – CBC Manitoba
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #1701 19 #1703 20 #1709 21 #1712 22 #1714
8:00 pm
5:30 pm 10:30 pm 8:45 pm
3:45 pm
23 #1718 24 #1721 25 #1722 26 #1725 27 #1730 28 #1734 29 #1736
7:00 pm
$10
9:00 pm
5:30 pm
3:45 pm
5:45 pm
7:15 pm
4:00 pm
tickets 60 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • gunshots
The 28th Minute
Orphans
Winnipeg, MB
by Lyle Kessler Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1705 20 #1706 21 #1711 22 #1716
23
24
25 #1723 26 #1726 27 #1731 28
9:45 pm 7:15 pm
$10
tickets
$8
5:30 pm
3:45 pm
WARNING
6:00 pm
7:45 pm 29
8:00 pm
students
90 min
mature audience subject matter • language
Monster Theatre
Til Death Do We Part: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, A One-woman Show
Vancouver, BC
by Ryan Gladstone
74
60 min
mature audience • under 16 not admitted
Of Mice and Morro and Jasp
Abandoned by their father and haunted by the death of their mother, Treat and Phillip have been Dead-End Kids for over two decades. Phillip remains isolated from the outside world, spending his days memorizing brand names and imitating Errol Flynn movies. Treat, on the other hand, enjoys outdoor activities like kidnapping a Chicago gangster named Harold. Harold, an orphan himself, becomes an intimidating employer and mentor for the two lost brothers.
110
8:15 pm
www.monstertheatre.com
The betrayed wife. The scheming wife. The peacemaker. The ugly German. The slutty one. The one in love with someone else. Six queens. Six love stories. Six deaths. One actress! HHHHH “The idea is as brilliant as the execution is funny.” – CBC “An incredibly rich, dizzying experience that should not be missed.” – BENT HHHH “Ingenious, dazzling and amazing!” – Edmonton Journal HHHH½ ”Monster Theatre are Canada’s ablest factbenders and history-skewerers. Gladstone’s script is a lesson in crowd-pleasing wit.” – SEE
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1704 20 #1707 21 #1710 22 #1717
23
24 #1720 25
26 #1728 27 #1729 28 #1735 29 #1737
7:00 pm
10:30 pm 3:45 pm
7:45 pm
$10
6:00 pm
4:00 pm 10:00 pm 9:30 pm
5:45 pm
tickets mature audience • under 16 not admitted
WARNING
www.facebook.com/WinnipegFringe
subject matter • language
75 min
explore the possibilities in the University of Manitobaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
theatre prograM: Acting Directing StAgecrAft PlAywriting DrAmAturgy HiStory AnAlySiS tHeory
theatre Studies can also be combined with film and english Studies. Photo: Students performing in a Black Hole Theatre Company production
ImagIne yourself In theatre! um theatre Program
Black Hole theatre
venue
445 River Ave. (at Osborne St.)
GAS STATION ARTS CENTRE
18
Hot Thespian Action
Body Language
Winnipeg, MB
by Hot Thespian Action
www.HotThespianAction.com
Three-time Best of Fest winners and Canadian Comedy Award nominees Hot Thespian Action return to the Winnipeg Fringe with a brand new offering of their trademark physical, musical and inventive comedy. 100% guaranteed* to make you laugh.
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Tuesday 17
23
24 #1818 25 #1821 26
“This is about as good as comedy gets, at the Fringe or anywhere else.” – CBC
20
Friday
Saturday Sunday 21 #1810 22 #1814
27
28 #1830 29 #1834
7:00 pm 7:00 pm
*This is not a guarantee. Reviews for previous HTA shows:
Wednesday Thursday 18 #1801 19
$10
5:00 pm
7:00 pm
5:00 pm
5:00 pm 4:00 pm
tickets 60 min
mature audience
HHHHH – Winnipeg Free Press, CBC, Uptown, Winnipeg Sun, Examiner.com
Red River Serial
D’n’D Improv IV
Winnipeg, MB www.dndimprov.com
HHHHH “… in its third Fringe outing, local improv outfit Red River Serial has launched its greatest campaign yet.” – Melissa Martin, Winnipeg Free Press
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
HHHHH “… providing 75 minutes of pure improvisational brilliance on the theme of Dungeons ‘n’ Dragons” – Kenton Smith, Uptown Magazine
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24 #1820 25 #1823 26 #1826 27 #1829 28 #1833 29
Winnipeg Fringe 2010 Best of Fest
$10
The D’n’D Improv Show returns for another epic adventure of laughs, love and LARP battles. A fantasyinspired improv show, each episode picks up where the last one ends. This adventure is sure to be a critical hit!
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #1803 19 #1806 20 #1809 21 #1813 22 #1817
11:00 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 pm
$8
tickets
students • kids (12 & under) in costume
75 min
mature audience
WARNING
subject matter • language • fog machine
Sound & Fury
Sound & Fury’s “Dirty Fairy Tales”
Los Angeles, CA www.soundandfury.org
S&F premiere a naughty parody of classic fairy tales, wrapped in a mystical conundrum of … Oh, who we kidding? It’s stupid, musical and dirty.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #1802 19 #1805 20 #1808 21 #1812 22 #1816
But wait! THREE SETS of three different fairy tales (plus a fully improvised one!) rotating each night of the Fringe! See them all!
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People’s Choice Award – Adelaide Fringe ‘08, ‘09, ‘11 Best of Fest – Winnipeg Fringe ‘06, ‘07 HHHHH “60 minutes of jaw-aching hilarity!” – Winnipeg Free Press HHHHH “Naturally and effortlessly hysterical!” – Edinburgh Evening News
$10
9:00 pm 9:00 pm
9:00 pm
$7
tickets
9:00 pm 9:00 pm
9:00 pm 9:00 pm
9:00 pm
9:00 pm 8:00 pm
students
mature audience • under 13 not admitted
WARNING
9:00 pm
60 min
subject matter
Bipolar Buddha Productions
Tazzy’s Angels
Winnipeg, MB www.tazzysangels.wordpress.com
Big Daddy Tazz is all about the ladies! Tazzy’s Angels is back again in this unique comedy showcase featuring Winnipeg’s top female comedians. Rachel Sommer, Aisha Alfa and a different mystery guest each night perform their fiercely clever and hilarious acts in this dynamic stand-up comedy show.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #1804 20 #1807 21 #1811 22 #1815
23
24
25
7:00 pm 7:00 pm
$10
tickets
$8
7:00 pm 7:00 pm
76
www.twitter.com/WinnipegFringe • #wpgfringe
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
6:00 pm
students • seniors • Fringe performers
mature audience • under 16 not admitted
230
7:00 pm
26 #1824 27 #1827 28 #1831 29 #1835
60 min
Il Duo Productions
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
$10
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
3:00 pm
HHHH – Margo Goodhand, Editor, Winnipeg Free Press
tickets
HHHH – Justin Bell, Edmonton Sun
general audience
AUGUSTINE UNITED
8:30 pm
23 #1906 24 #1907 25 #1908 26 #1909 27 #1910 28 #1911 29
After an exhaustive tour around the world, Il Duo is back!! Come see fan favourites as well as new songs collected from around the world! Expect more zany comedy from this straight man/funny guy routine as well as some of the most beautiful singing heard at the Fringe.
church
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #1901 19 #1902 20 #1903 21 #1904 22 #1905
444 River Ave.
Tuesday 17
19
by Il Duo
www.ilduo.com Monday 16
venue
IL DUO: World Tour
Edmonton, AB
60 min
200
CAFF
M e m b e r F e s t i va l s FRIGID New York February 22–March 4
2 0 1 2 D at e s Calgary Fringe Festival August 3–11
The Island Fringe Festival (Charlottetown) August 24–26
www.reginafringe.com
www.calgaryfringe.ca
islandfringe.tumblr.com
Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival
Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival
Boulder International Fringe Festival
Festival FRINGE St-Ambroise de Saguenay
Freedom to create, freedom to participate. www.fringefestivals.com
May 16–28
™ FRINGE and FRINGE FESTIVAL are registered trademarks of the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals.
July 4–15
August 15–26
August 30–September 2
www.orlandofringe.org
www.fringetoronto.com
www.boulderfringe.com
www.fringesaguenay.org
London Fringe Theatre Festival
Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival
Atlantic Fringe Festival (Halifax)
www.londonfringe.ca
June 6–17
www.winnipegfringe.com
www.fringetheatreadventures.ca
August 16–26
August 30–September 9
Piggyback Fringe Festival (Wakefield)
Hamilton Fringe Festival
Fringetastic Theatre Festival (Nanaimo)
San Francisco Fringe Festival
June 14–17
July 18–29
July 19–29
August 16–26
www.piggybackfringe.ca
www.hamiltonfringe.ca
www.fringetastic.com
Festival St-Ambroise Fringe de Montreal
Windsor International Fringe Festival
Indianapolis Fringe Theatre Festival
June 14–24
July 27–August 5
August 17–26
www.montrealfringe.ca
www.windsorfringe.com
www.indyfringe.org
Ottawa Fringe Festival
PotashCorp Fringe Theatre Festival (Saskatoon)
Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival
August 2–11
August 24–September 3
June 14–24
CanstarNews.com
July 4–8
and
www.frigidnewyork.info
The Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) is the largest theatre touring circuit in North America with 23 member festivals. We are the home of independent and innovative theatre in Canada and the US, and are connected to a movement of Fringe Festivals worldwide. Anyone can perform in a CAFF Festival – we are inclusive! Everyone can attend – we are affordable and accessible! Participate as an artist, audience member or start your own Fringe Festival.
P U B LI S H E R S O F
Regina International Fringe Festival
www.ottawafringe.com
www.saskatoonfringe.org
www.victoriafringe.com
www.atlanticfringe.ca
September 5–16
www.sffringe.org
Vancouver Fringe Festival September 6–16
www.vancouverfringe.com
venue
123 Princess St. (Lower level)
AQUA BOOKS
20
Big Empty Barn Productions
‘33, a kabarett
Paris/New Orleans
by Bremner Duthie
www.bremnerduthie.com
In the ruins of a shattered theatre, a Master of Ceremonies improvises one last show. An audience takes their seats and with song, dance and dark humour, the MC pays tribute to his disappeared friends.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2001 19 #2008 20 #2015 21 #2022 22 #2023
6:00 pm
6:45 pm
8:30 pm 10:15 pm 1:15 pm
23 #2030 24 #2037 25 #2044 26 #2051 27 #2058 28 #2059 29 #2064
HHHHH “stunning theatrical accomplishment” – VUE Magazine
3:15 pm
“Gem of a show, frozen between rational thought and madness” – Orlando Sentinel
$10
“Dazzling … he will have you close to tears one moment and laughing the next – an absolute joy to watch” – New Orleans Magazine
5:00 pm
6:45 pm
8:30 pm 10:15 pm 5:00 pm
tickets 60 min
general audience
Puppy Ranch
The Complete History of the Moustache
Toronto, ON
by Kristian Reimer
www.reimerreason.com
From the beginning of time until now, there have been a great many faces that have donned one of the most distinguishing facial features of man (and at least one woman): THE MOUSTACHE. Kristian Reimer will take you on a journey from the first moustache to the face of revolutionaries, explorers, comedians, conquerers and The Village People … all in under an hour.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2004 19 #2006 20 #2013 21 #2020 22 #2027
11:15 pm 3:15 pm
5:00 pm
6:45 pm
10:15 pm 1:30 pm
$10
tickets
3:15 pm
$8
5:00 pm
8:30 pm 10:15 pm 2:00 pm
seniors • moustache-wearing Fringers
60 min
general audience
Sisterscene
More Power to Your Knitting, Nell!
New York, NY
by Melanie Gall
www.melaniegall.com
Sadie, self-professed hater of knitting, has always dreamed of being a radio star. But when the war starts and she lands a gig as “Knitting Nell,” she’s suddenly the galvanizing figure of the “Fireside Forces,” leading the Soldier Girls at Home through her knitting songs. Features several historic knitting songs. (Yes, KNITTING songs!) Bring your knitting and stitch along … “A master performer” – Edmonton Sun
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2002 19 #2007 20 #2011 21 #2018 22 #2025
7:45 pm
5:00 pm
1:30 pm
3:15 pm
23 #2032 24 #2039 25 #2046 26 #2047 27 #2055 28
6:45 pm
$10
“A voice that has an ocean of depth” – London Free Press
8:30 pm 10:15 pm 1:30 pm
tickets
$9
4:45 pm 29
5:00 pm
matinees • students • seniors kids (12 & under) • Fringe performers knitters
60 min
general audience
Folie du Théâtre
Ne Me Quitte Pas Piaf and Brel: The Impossible Concert
Paris, France
by Melanie Gall & Bremner Duthie
www.piafandbrel.com
Edith Piaf. Jacques Brel. Two French musical icons. They sang songs of romance, heartbreak, hope and love. They lived lives of drama and passion. This ‘impossible’ concert, with veteran performers Bremner Duthie and Melanie Gall, relives the adventure and inspiration of their lives and music. Featuring “Amsterdam,” “La Vie en Rose,” “Hymne a l’Amour” and other French classics.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
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8:30 pm
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2003 19 #2005 20 #2012 21 #2019 22 #2026
9:30 pm 8:30 pm 10:15 pm 1:30 pm
$10
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #3218 20 #3214 21 #3218 22 #3226
Highlighted Performances offer a 2 for $10 ticket price
7:00 pm
5:30 pm 12:00 pm 2:15 pm
26
27 #3265 28 #3268 29
10:30 pm 3:30 pm
1:30 pm
3:15 pm
5:00 pm
3:15 pm
6:30 pm 29
6:45 pm
tickets general audience
“Extraordinary” – Winnipeg Sun
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23 #2033 24 #2040 25 #2041 26 #2048 27 #2056 28
“Dazzling” – NoLa Magazine
78
8:15 pm
23 #2034 24 #2035 25 #2042 26 #2049 27 #2057 28 #2062 29 #2063
“Menacingly hilarious” – Globe and Mail
110
3:45 pm
60 min
Shelby Bond
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #2009 20 #2016 21 #2017 22 #2024
8:30 pm 10:15 pm 1:30 pm
3:00 pm
8:30 pm 10:15 pm 3:15 pm
5:30 pm
“Comic genius!” – Edinburgh Evening News UK
students • guys on a date with a girl they are trying to impress
$7
tickets
6:45 pm
general audience • under 13 not admitted
60 min
“Likable and hilarious!” – Vargus Mason, Comedy Central
Erik de Waal
The Witch
Cape Town, South Africa
by Erik de Waal
www.erikdewaal.co.za Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #2010 20 #2014 21 #2021 22 #2028
10:15 pm 6:45 pm
8:30 pm 10:00 pm
23 #2029 24 #2036 25 #2043 26 #2050 27 #2053 28 #2061 29 #2066
1:30 pm
$10
3:15 pm
tickets
5:00 pm
6:45 pm
1:30 pm
8:30 pm
7:15 pm
students • seniors • unemployed Fringe Performers
$8
mature audience • under 12 not admitted
WARNING
AQUA BOOKS
$9
6:45 pm
LA comic and Fringe favorite Shelby Bond returns to Winnipeg to present his indispensable survival guide. In stand-up, stories and songs, you’ll learn how to avoid having a real job, how to read a drunk text, how to spot wild, crazy love from 20 yards and how to kill with kindness … or a shotgun.
123 Princess St. (Lower level)
23 #2031 24 #2038 25 #2045 26 #2052 27 #2054 28 #2060 29 #2065
5:00 pm
20
by Shelby Bond
www.shelbybond.com Monday 16
venue
Shelby Bond – The Poor Man’s Guide To Being Rich
Los Angeles, CA
When night falls, check that your doors are locked, your windows bolted and your curtains drawn. And don’t go outside … or the witch will get you. South African Erik de Waal returns with a dark tale of a strange child found in the woods who grew up to be called the witch. HHHHH “He just knows how to tell a story.” – Winnipeg Free Press
60 min
110
subject matter
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Christmas Spectacular DECEMBER 1 I 7:30 PM
The whole family will enjoy this dazzling evening hosted by Ace Burpee, where your favourite holiday music goes hand-in-hand with the classics, the movies, the world of dance, Broadway and more.
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Beyond the Score® FEBRUARY 9 I 8:00 PM
1022 PEMBINA HWY
284-0183
CAMBRIDGE HOTEL Fort Garry’s First and Only Modern Drive-in Cold Beer Store
An exciting multi-media presentation created by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Chaplin: The Gold Rush APRIL 20 I 8:00 PM
ENJOY
ALL 3
CONCERTS Starting at
54
$
We present Chaplin’s 1925 silent masterpiece The Gold Rush in a digitally restored print with Chaplin’s own score performed live by the WSO.
Season tickets available at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
WSO Box Office
949-3999 I www.wso.ca
venue
Winnipeg, MB
by Sophocles After her brothers Eteocles and Polyneices kill each other in a tragic battle, only Eteocles is properly laid to rest. Defending Polynices’ right, Antigone performs a suitable burial and is arrested by Creon, the newly appointed King of Thebes. The final sentence: death. Her husband Haemon, her sister Ismene and the prophet Teiresias beg Creon to release Antigone, but will their pleas save her from both the law and from herself? A timeless adaptation of one of Sophocles’ greatest tragedies.
91 Albert St. (3rd floor)
RUDOLF ROCKER CULTURAL CENTRE
21
This Reality Theatre
Antigone
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #2105 20 #2111 21 #2114 22 #2117
6:00 pm
9:45 pm
8:00 pm
7:00 pm
23 #2119 24
25 #2126 26 #2128 27 #2133 28 #2139 29 #2142
5:00 pm
8:00 pm
$10
4:00 pm
6:15 pm 10:00 pm 8:30 pm
tickets 75 min
general audience
The Struts and Frets Players
Cupid and Psyche
Winnipeg, MB
by Jessy Ardern & Ariel Levine
www.sfplayers.wordpress.com
Psyche is a mortal girl who wins both the love of Cupid and the hatred of his mother, Venus – a dangerous combination. The impudent mortal thespians who brought you such Fringe hits as Perseus, Gilgamesh and the Rintoul Award-winning Sigurd the Dragonslayer now present their twist on a classic Roman fairy tale. A comedy of true love, disembodied voices and venomous sun-sheep, Cupid and Psyche proves that love is blind … especially in the dark.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2101 19 #2107 20 #2109 21 #2112 22 #2118
6:00 pm
9:30 pm
6:00 pm
4:30 pm
9:00 pm
23 #2120 24 #2123 25 #2124 26 #2130 27 #2135 28 #2136 29 #2141
7:00 pm
$9
8:30 pm
tickets
4:15 pm
$7
7:30 pm 10:00 pm 4:45 pm
6:30 pm
students • seniors angry mothers-in-law
75 min
general audience
Flatland Comedy
Mr. Flatland Comedy
Winnipeg, MB www.flatlandcomedy.com
Flatland Comedy returns to the Fringe for their second year! They have put down the projector to put on the live sketch show Winnipeggers have been asking for. Never a dull moment, as the guys who entertained ferocious WPG Gong Show lovers and the click-sensitive YouTube surfers jam an hour of laughs into this BEST OF FEST-worthy 45 min comedic kaleidoscope!
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2102 19 #2106 20 #2108 21 #2113 22 #2116
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
4:30 pm
6:30 pm
5:30 pm
23 #2121 24 #2122 25 #2127 26 #2129 27 #2132 28 #2138 29 #2140
9:00 pm
$10
7:00 pm 10:00 pm 6:00 pm
tickets
$5
4:45 pm
5:00 pm
matinees • Fringe performers
45 min
mature audience
WARNING
8:30 pm
subject matter • language
Outside Joke
Outside Joke’s Summertime Party Jam!
Winnipeg, MB www.outsidejokeimprov.com
HHHH “An improv force to be reckoned with.” – Winnipeg Free Press
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2103 19 #2104 20 #2110 21 #2115 22
HHHH “If Outside Joke is the future of improv, the genre is in good hands.” – CBC
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“Sharp and hilarious,” Outside Joke is back to delight you with their unique improvised storytelling and song singing. Forget the sun: throw on some bright shades and some fresh kicks and soak up the FUN!
9:30 pm 6:15 pm
$10
tickets
$8
mature audience
70
80
winnipegfringe.com
4:15 pm 9:30 pm
8:00 pm 10:00 pm 8:15 pm
6:45 pm
students
60 min
Join us at the Liquor Marts Patio,
serving BillyRock Station Pinot,Grigio and Shiraz and Mike s Hard Lemonade and Cranberry Lemonade!
Please Drink resPonsibly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; MoDeration tastes so Much better.
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venue
22
Winnipeg, MB
by Marc A. Moir
www.lookingglassproductions.ca
The Man Who Wasn’t There is a murder mystery, written and performed as a 1940s radio play (complete with live music, sound effects and commercials). This homage to radio drama and film noir is the latest offering from award-winning playwright Marc A. Moir (Padre X).
THEATRE
585 Ellice Ave. (across from WECC)
the ELLICE
Looking Glass Productions
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Padre X: Outstanding Drama, Ottawa Fringe Festival (2011); Best of Fest, Winnipeg Fringe Festival (2010); nominee for Harry Rintoul Memorial Award for Best New Manitoban Play (2010)
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2201 19 #2202 20 #2203 21 #2204 22 #2205
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
23 #2206 24 #2207 25 #2208 26 #2209 27 #2210 28 #2211 29 #2212
7:00 pm
$10
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
tickets 90 min
general audience
220
venue
23 (at Sherbrook St.)
24 400 Hargrave St. (at Cumberland Ave.)
www.saintsofbritishrock.com
From the producers of This is Cancer, Jake’s Gift, Oneman Star Wars and One-man Lord of the Rings The Saints of British Rock An Historic Rockumentary See “The Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band in The World,” in what Rolling Stonehenge calls the most “unheard of” musical adventure of 2012! Übermensch ‘60s megastars Rocco Hercules Sommershire and Jib from Broffitts share details of their multi-dimensional, hooligan-rock revival with acclaimed metaphysicist Peter Tongue. WARNING: Rock n’ Roll.
WEST END CULTURAL CENTRE 586 Ellice Ave. venue
YOUTH CENTRE (CALVARY TEMPLE)
Victoria, BC
by Danette Boucher & Stu Cawood
320
the ARGUE BUILDING
London UK Records Ltd
Saints of British Rock
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 19 #2301 20 #2302 21 #2303 22 #2304
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
$10
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
tickets general audience • under 12 not admitted
WARNING
60 min
subject matter • strobe lights
Comedy Illusions of Greg Wood
Fringe Family Fun Show
Winnipeg, MB
by Greg Wood
www.comedyillusions.com
“Polished and professional, Wood has a delightful rapport with his audience and keeps the crowd laughing and smiling right to the end.” – Winnipeg Free Press “The charm of this ever-so-well-done act is that the entire family can sit and enjoy the performance together; and that is what families are looking for in a good Kids Fringe show.” – CBC
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 18 19 #2401 20 #2402 21
1:00 pm 1:00 pm
$5
1:00 pm
1:00 pm
1:00 pm
29
7:00 pm
tickets
175
“Our goal was to provide the best possible experience we could for the performers. We did realize that they were the key to the future success of the Fringe in Winnipeg. We wanted performers to want to come back and to talk about us to their peers at other festivals and this has become one of the hallmarks of the Winnipeg Fringe.” Tim Babcock, U of W Chair of Theatre and Film Production Coordination at the first Winnipeg Fringe
Sunday 22
1:00 pm
23 #2403 24 #2404 25 #2405 26 #2406 27 #2407 28
family friendly • babes in arms permitted
82
8:30 pm
23 #2305 24 #2306 25 #2307 26 #2308 27 #2309 28 #2310 29
45 min
Now open to the general public!
Offering food between shows Eat in or to go!
Discounts for Volunteers & Performers! 3rd Floor is BYOV Venue #14 presenting:
big word performance poetry performing
jem rolls: TEN STARTS AND AN END and
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Tonight Only Room open for show and food prior to curtain 120 King Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 1H9, 204-957-7710
venue
Winnipeg, MB
by Frank Wedekind | Translation by Edward & Elizabeth Bond
72 Princess St. (3rd floor)
ABSURD MACHINE STUDIOS
25
little ECHO theatre
Lulu: A Monster Tragedy
www.echocharlene.blogspot.ca
“How dark it’s getting” “It’ll get darker”
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Written over a century ago, Lulu remains a hilarious, shocking and disturbing satire of our insatiable appetite for sex, money and death.
23
24 #2511 25 #2513 26 #2516 27 #2517 28 #2520 29 #2521
From the author of Spring Awakening and the company who brought Grand-Guignol to the Winnipeg Fringe. Directed by Kevin Klassen Featuring Andrew Cecon, Rob McLaughlin, Brian Richardson & Charlene Van Buekenhout
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2501 19 #2503 20 #2506 21 #2507 22 #2509
6:30 pm 6:30 pm
$10
tickets
6:30 pm
$8
6:30 pm 8:30 pm
8:30 pm 6:30 pm
subject matter • language • gunshots
Theatre by the River
Lungs
Winnipeg, MB
by Duncan Macmillan
www.theatrebytheriver.com
Giving birth to a baby. The hope of our species. The expression of a couple’s love. And 10,000 tonnes of CO2.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Join TBTR for the Canadian premiere of Duncan Macmillan’s razor-sharp, visceral look inside a hip, modern couple’s hope and hell.
23
24 #2512 25 #2514 26 #2515 27 #2518 28 #2519 29 #2522
From the company that brought you Michael Healey’s political-tragicomedy Generous and the Fringe smash hits One Good Marriage and Autobahn.
$10
90
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2502 19 #2504 20 #2505 21 #2508 22 #2510
8:30 pm 8:30 pm
tickets
WARNING
211 Bannatyne Ave. (Crocus Building) Entrance on Bannatyne Ave.
the FOLK EXCHANGE
26
8:30 pm
$8
8:30 pm 6:30 pm
6:30 pm 8:30 pm
6:30 pm
3:30 pm 3:30 pm
90 min
language
District Theatre Collective Winnipeg, MB
Adapted from the monologue by Mike Daisey
www.districttheatrecollective.com
A razor-sharp, witty, hilarious and harrowing tale of pride, beauty, lust and industrial design. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs illuminates how Apple’s technology shapes our lives and follows the trail all the way to China to investigate the factories where millions toil to make iPhones and iPods. This controversial play shines a light on our love affair with our devices, the human cost of creating them and the lengths we go to expose the truth.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2601 19 #2603 20 #2605 21 #2607 22 #2609
23
24 #2611 25 #2613 26 #2615 27 #2617 28 #2619 29 #2621
7:00 pm 7:00 pm
$10
7:00 pm
7:00 pm 7:00 pm
7:00 pm 7:00 pm
7:00 pm 7:00 pm
2:00 pm 2:00 pm
tickets 90 min
mature audience
WARNING
language
WEEPING SPOON PRODUCTIONS
ZACK ADAMS: A Complete History Of Zack Adams
Perth, Australia
by Shane Adamczak
www.weepingspoon.com Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2602 19 #2604 20 #2606 21 #2608 22 #2610
23
24 #2612 25 #2614 26 #2616 27 #2618 28 #2620 29 #2622
9:15 pm 9:15 pm
$10
tickets
9:15 pm
$8
9:15 pm 9:15 pm
9:15 pm 9:15 pm
WARNING www.facebook.com/WinnipegFringe
9:15 pm 9:15 pm
4:15 pm 4:15 pm
matinees • students • seniors
mature audience • under 15 not admitted
84
8:30 pm
students • seniors
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
A comedic coming-of-age story about an Australian actor’s quest for superstardom and his slow rise to mediocrity. The creator of LOVE SONGS FOR FUTURE GIRL (HHHH – CBC, Uptown, Times Colonist; nominated, Just for Laughs Award – Montreal Fringe 2011) returns to where it all began! Nominated for Best Local Comedy – Fringe World 2012.
50
1:30 pm
75 min
mature audience
venue
8:30 pm
1:30 pm
matinees
mature audience
WARNING
6:30 pm
subject matter • language
60 min
Depar tme nt of Th eatre a nd Film
bac ks tage
Leaders of Tomorrow
developing manitoba talent The University of Winnipeg Department of Theatre and Film offers degree studies in Acting, Production, Design, Dance, Filmmaking and much, much more! http://theatre.uwinnipeg.ca
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Ask us about our
Planned BFA Performance Program
venue
100 Arthur St. (Artspace Building) | Suite 504
RORY RUNNELLS STUDIO
27
Death & Taxes Theatre
Back to Berlin
New York, NY/Winnipeg, MB
by Vern Thiessen
www.vernthiessen.com
A funny and lyrical look at fathers and sons. In this fast-moving, 45-minute solo show, Governor General’s Award winner Vern Thiessen takes you on a journey Back to Berlin, to discover the secrets lying in the city – and a father’s past.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2702 19 #2704 20 #2706 21 #2708 22 #2710
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
$10
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
Winnipeg, MB
by Vern Thiessen Spring 1945: occupied Czechoslovakia. David Dyck, a young courier in Hitler’s army, must decide whether to open a restricted letter and face the truth, or remain ignorant and face death. A powerful one-man show featuring Toby Hughes and directed by the playwright, Vern Thiessen.
50
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
23
24 #2712 25 #2714 26 #2716 27 #2718 28 #2720 29
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2701 19 #2703 20 #2705 21 #2707 22 #2709
7:00 pm 7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm 7:00 pm
WARNING
86
7:00 pm
herbal cigarettes
LineaR Productions Winnipeg, MB
by Harry Rintoul & Chantele Fry
One ounce small-town Manitoba, poured over a shot of realism, mixed with a twist of dark humour and a pinch of poetry. The Distance Between Trees navigates multigenerational narratives of life (and its repercussions).
290 McDermot Ave. (basement)
177 McDermot Ave. (basement)
restaurant & bar
JOHNNY G’s
70
7:00 pm
75 min
The Distance Between Trees
RAW: GALLERY of ARCHITECTURE and DESIGN
29
7:00 pm
tickets
Left incomplete at the time of his death, Distance is a never-before-seen work by celebrated playwright Harry Rintoul that has been completed posthumously by emerging artist Chantele Fry.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2801 19 #2802 20 #2803 21 #2804 22 #2805
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
2:00 pm
23 #2806 24 #2807 25 #2808 26 #2809 27 #2810 28 #2811 29 #2812
7:00 pm
$10
A portion of the proceeds from this production will be contributed to the Harry S. Rintoul Memorial Award.
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
$8
tickets
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
2:00 pm
unemployed
mature audience • under 7 not admitted
WARNING
venue
7:00 pm
Who Knows Prod.
The Courier
50
9:00 pm
45 min
mature audience • under 12 not admitted
mature audience
28
9:00 pm
tickets
$10
venue
9:00 pm
23 #2711 24 #2713 25 #2715 26 #2717 27 #2719 28 #2721 29 #2722
60 min
subject matter • language
Colin Godbout
The Greatest Guitarists in the World
Vancouver, BC
by Colin Godbout
www.colingodbout.com
STEP RIGHT UP to three bouts of the hottest pickers on earth! Godbout portrays Rolling Stone Magazine’s prizefighters – Hendrix, Clapton and Page – going neck and neck with country gentleman Chet Atkins, his gypsy hero Django Reinhardt and his Winnipeg protégé Lenny Breau, whom he called the greatest guitarist in the world. “Godbout blew me away. His is an immense talent. One of the best guitarists I’ve ever seen.” – Winnipeg Review
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #2901 19 #2902 20 #2903 21 #2904 22 #2905
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
3:30 pm
23 #2906 24 #2907 25 #2908 26 #2909 27 #2910 28 #2911 29 #2912
8:30 pm
$8
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
tickets
$7
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
www.twitter.com/WinnipegFringe • #wpgfringe
3:30 pm
students • seniors • unemployed
general audience • under 18 not admitted
Best of Fest – Winnipeg Fringe ‘09
8:30 pm
licensed venue
60 min
Your Members of the Legislative Assembly
Thank the Performers, Volunteers and Staff for 25 Years of the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
Greg Selinger
Deanne Crothers
Kerri Sharon Irvin-Ross Blady
Kevin Chief
Nancy Allan
Erna Braun
Peter Bjornson
Theresa Oswald
Gord Rob Mackintosh Altemeyer
Andrew Swan
Flor Matt Marcelino Wiebe
Dave Chomiak
Melanie Wight
MLA for St. Boniface MLA for St. James Premier of Manitoba (204) 415-0883 (204) 237-9247 DeanneCrothers.ca GregSelinger.ca
MLA for St. Vital (204) 237-8771 NancyAllan.ca
MLA for Minto (204) 783-9860 AndrewSwan.ca
MLA for Rossmere (204) 667-7244 ErnaBraun.ca
MLA for Logan (204) 788-0800 FlorMarcelino.ca
Jim Rondeau
MLA for Fort Richmond MLA for Kirkfield Park MLA for Point Douglas MLA for Assiniboia (204) 888-7722 (204) 475-9433 (204) 832-2318 (204) 421-9126 KerriIrvinRoss.ca SharonBlady.ca KevinChief.ca JimRondeau.mb.ca
MLA for Gimli (204) 642-4977 PeterBjornson.ca
MLA for Concordia (204) 654-1857 MattWiebe.ca
MLA for Seine River MLA for St. Johns (204) 582-1550 (204) 255-7840 TheresaOswald.ca GordMackintosh.ca
MLA for Kildonan (204) 334-5060 DaveChomiak.ca
MLA for Burrows (204) 421-9414 MelanieWight.ca
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venue
2 Forks Market Rd. | The Forks (free parking)
RICHARDSON HALL (MTYP)
30
MTYP Yo.Co.
Puzzled
Winnipeg, MB
by Summer Studio Co.
www.mtyp.ca
Teen (ten) - noun 1. Archaic. suffering; misery; affliction. Puzzled dismantles the dated definition of teenagers and pieces together a picture that is vivid, hopeful, honest and fresh. Created by 12 of Winnipeg’s brightest emerging artists.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #3001 19 #3003 20 #3005 21 #3007 22 #3009
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
$10
7:00 pm
tickets
7:00 pm
$8
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
211 Bannatyne Ave. (Crocus Building) Enter from parking lot on Main St.
SCHOOL of CONTEMPORARY DANCERS
120
88
3:00 pm
75 min
general audience
The Works
Three-letter Words
Winnipeg, MB
by Kent Suss
Ear candy with a twist: at times nasty and irreverent, at times filled with humour and heart, but always packing a poetic punch.
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 18 #3002 19 #3004 20 #3006 21 #3008 22 #3010
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
23 #3012 24 #3014 25 #3016 26 #3018 27 #3020 28 #3022 29
9:00 pm
$10
96
31
7:00 pm
matinees • students
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
5:00 pm
tickets 75 min
mature audience
venue
7:00 pm
23 #3011 24 #3013 25 #3015 26 #3017 27 #3019 28 #3021 29
WARNING
language
SNAFU Dance Theatre
Little Orange Man
Victoria, BC
by Kathleen Greenfield & Ingrid Hansen
www.snafudance.com
Prepare yourself for Kitt, a high-octane Danish girl, whose greatest delight comes from reenacting her grandfather’s grisly folk tales to young neighbourhood children. Kitt fires up homemade technology to extract and reenact the audience’s dreams. Live songs, edible puppets and shadow puppetry! “The kind of inventive, heartfelt and unique storytelling you normally only dream about.” – Visitorium
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
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9:30 pm
7:00 pm 10:45 pm 9:15 pm
23 #3110 24
25 #3112 26 #3114 27 #3116 28 #3119 29 #3120
7:00 pm
7:30 pm
$10
“Haunting and hilarious.” – Culture Vulture
tickets
$7
7:30 pm
9:00 pm
7:45 pm
youth (18 & under)
75 min
general audience
“Very entertaining.” – CBC
9:00 pm
Winner: Vancouver Playhouse Award & Pick of the Fringe
WONDERHEADS
LOON
Portland, OR
by WONDERHEADS
www.wonderheads.com
A man. The moon. A most peculiar love story. WONDERHEADS are back, with their larger-than-life masks and a love story that whisks a man to the moon and back. Creators of 2011 acclaimed Fringe hit Grim and Fischer: HHHHH “Utter magic” – CBC HHHHH “Wonderful, original, beautiful” – Calgary Herald HHHHH “You will laugh, you will cry, you will stand in awe” – Edmonton Sun Best of Fest 2011: Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary
Monday 16
Tuesday 17
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24 #3243 25
8:30 pm
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Tuesday 17
23
24 #3111 25 #3113 26 #3115 27 #3117 28 #3118 29
7:45 pm 7:45 pm
$10
Highlighted Performances offer a 2 for $10 ticket price
7:00 pm
5:30 pm 12:00 pm 2:15 pm
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27 #3265 28 #3268 29
10:30 pm 3:30 pm
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9:30 pm
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
7:30 pm
9:15 pm
9:30 pm 11:00 pm 7:15 pm
tickets general audience
60 min
2012 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival Staff Katie Adamson, Advance Tickets Staff Brian Adolph, IT Manager Tim Babcock, Site Supervisor Sheena Baird, Advance Tickets Staff Kathryn Ball, Outdoor Site Assistant Ksenia Broda-Milian, Volunteer Department Staff Sharon Burden, Accountant Cindy Burke, FOH Staff Sue Caughlin, Marketing & Communications Manager Jennifer Cheslock, Volunteer Manager Hugh Conacher, Production Consultant Kayla Coppens, Info Tent & Patio Manager Nicole Coppens, FOH Staff Kim Cossette, Warehouse House Manager
Production Staff
Tim Cranwill, Outdoor Stage Host Natercia Doucet, Advance Tickets Staff Laura Enns, Beer Tent Manager Laurie Fletcher, Patron Services Office Manager Marie France Forcier, Site Supervisor Aaron Frost, Fringe Driver Andrea Gallagher, FOH Staff Deborah Gay-de Vries, MTC Front-of-House Manager Kari Hagness, Performer Services Manager Samantha Harrison, Festival Assistant & FOH Manager Shannon Jacques, FOH Staff Frances Koncan, Advance Tickets Staff Anna-Laure Koop, Advance Tickets Staff Vikki Ladd, Volunteer Department Staff
Ali Robson, Advance Tickets Staff Jessica Ross, Advance Tickets Staff Ken Rudderham, Outdoor Stage Host Mark Saunders, Marketing & Communications Coordinator Melanie Sexton, Ticketing Services Director Casey Shapira, FOH Staff Jennifer Skelly, Tessitura Application Coordinator Teri Stevens, Publicist Dylan Stroski, Site Supervisor Shelley Stroski, Controller Treasure Wadell, Site Supervisor Kyla Wallace, Outdoor Site Assistant Tim Webster, Kids Fringe Coordinator Xiam Webster, Kids Fringe Coordinator
Michelle Lagassé, Beer Tent Manager Candace Maxwell, Outdoor Site Manager Chuck McEwen, Executive Producer Cheryl Moser, Site Supervisor Debbie Neufeld, MTC Reception Laura Neufeld, Info Tent & Patio Manager Jason Neufeld, FOH Staff Sean Neville, Technical Director Yvonne O’Connor, Accounting Clerk Alana Odokeychuk, Advance Tickets Staff Katie Poole, Volunteer Coordinator Tori Popp, Volunteer Coordinator Michaela Porter, Advance Tickets Staff Rob Ring, Interim Festival Director
Arlo C. Bates John Bent Jr. Eric Bosse Alan Braverman Wayne Buss! Anthony Condello Chris Coyne Ntarra Curry Derek Elaschuk Hart Greenberg Chris Hadley Tim Harding Steven Hunnie James Jenson Ian Kirk Paige Lewis
Board of Trustees
Honorary Members His Honour, Lt. Governor Philip S. Lee The Honourable Greg Selinger, Premier of Manitoba His Worship, Mayor Sam Katz
Staff Accounting/Finance Sharon Burden, Accounting Yvonne O’Connor, Accounting Shelley Stroski, Controller Administration Brian Adolph, IT Manager Zaz Bajon, General Manager Emeritus Jennifer Cheslock, Outreach Manager Camilla Holland, General Manager Daphne MacMillan, Administrative Secretary Debbie Neufeld, Reception/Marketing Assistant Alan Waite, Assistant General Manager Artistic Jeff Kennedy, Wordplay Coordinator Laurie Lam, Producer Robb Paterson, Associate Artistic Director Steven Schipper, Artistic Director Melinda Tallin, Artistic Coordinator Carpentry Louis Gagné, Layout Carpenter Brent Letain, Master Carpenter Chris Seida, Scenic Carpenter
Susan Algie Nancy Anderson Jamie Antonowich Peggy Barker Jason Barnabe Craig Bednar Jim Bell Katherine Bialek Ingrid Bolbecher Lyndie Bright
Michelle Broder Bob Bruce Lillian Bryant Dennis Cape Danielle Carriere Brad Cartman Larry Chornoboy Patricia Concepcion Angela Connor
Executive Officers Gary Hannaford, FCA, Chair Kerry Dangerfield, Chair-elect/Chair, Community Relations Patrick Green, Treasurer/Chair, Organizational Performance David Carefoot, Assistant Treasurer Anthony C. Fletcher, Secretary Robert Eastwood, Chair, Resource Development Jim McLandress, Chair, Governance & Strategic Planning Communications Sue Caughlin, Marketing & Communications Manager Doowah Design, Design Bruce Monk, Photographer Brent Phillips, Director of Marketing & Communications Mark Saunders, Marketing & Communications Coordinator Teri Stevens, Publicist & Online Media Coordinator Development Kristine Betker, Director of Fund Development Garth Johnson, Major, Individual & Planned Giving Officer Michael Joyal, Development Assistant Stephanie Lambert, Special & Donor Events Coordinator John Hirsch Theatre Front-of-House Deborah Gay-de Vries, Front-of-House Manager Sheena Baird, Assistant House Manager Kim Cossette, Assistant House Manager Jamie Chapman, Curtis Hainsworth, Jonny Hall, Elfie Harvey, Kelsey Johnson, Sherri Kostecki, Tia Levine, Robyn Milligan, Rachael Neal, Jessica Olson, Kayla Parke-Wilson, Amariah Peterson, Angela Rajfur, Caroline Shields, Cristin Sinclair, Kevin Stroski, Phyllis Van Drunen, Rita Vande Vyvere, Chelsea Zacharias, Derek Zorniak
Helen Cooper John Cunningham Judy Doctoroff Kaitlyn Douglas Rochelle Ehinger Christina Fawcett Colleen Funk Julie Gelmich Sara Greenfield
Shelley Grundy Rob Hagiwara Melanie Hall Stephanie Hall Daniel Haughey Matthew Havens Jeff Heikkinen Ruth Heskins Chandra Hickling
Trustees David Atkins Brenlee Carrington Trepel David Christie Derrick Coupland Sandy Gousseau
Jeff Lamothe Bruce Leslie Michelle Weinberg Rick Workman Richard L. Yaffe Brenda Zaporzan
Maintenance Andrew Drinnan, Building Superintendent Chris Fletcher, Assistant Building Superintendent Paint Susan Groff, Head Scenic Artist Lawrence Van Went, Scenic Artist Patron Services Office Laurie Fletcher, Patron Services Office Manager Melanie Sexton, Ticketing Services Director Jennifer Skelly, Tessitura Application Coordinator Patron Services Representatives: Katie Adamson, Sheena Baird, Natercia Doucet, Anna-Laure Koop, Alana Odokeychuk, Michaela Porter, Ali Robson, Jessica Ross
Advisory Council Gerry Couture, Chair Gail Asper Morley Blankstein Doneta Brotchie Angus Campbell Hy Dashevsky Glen Dyrda, FCA Properties Larry Demedash, Senior Properties Builder Kari Hagness, Head of Properties James Sutherland, Properties Builder Stage Crew John Bent Jr., Head of Sound Beverly Covert, Wigs & Makeup Supervisor Hart Greenberg, Head Carpenter Joan Lees-Miller, Head of Wardrobe Claude Robert, Head Electrician John Tomiuk, House Stage Hand Tele-Sales Representative Sandra Rubin
Production Laura Enns, Touring & Production Coordinator Ian Kirk, Assistant Technical Director Laura Lindeblom, Assistant Production Manager Rick MacPherson, Technical Director, Tom Hendry Theatre Russell Martin, Production Manager Benjamin Ross, Technical Director, John Hirsch Theatre
Tom Hendry Theatre Randy Harder, Head Electrician Rick MacPherson, Technical Director Alison Nutt, Head Carpenter Michael Wright, Head of Sound
Amanda Houssin Cheryl Hunnie Murray Hunter Elizabeth-Anne Johnson Helena Kalomiris Ryan Kraemer Jenny Kuebler Carole Kurdydyk Brian Langlotz
Desiree Pappell Chelsey Patenaude Ken Perchuk Cathy Phillipson Helen Ptasznik Bill Rambo Luke Rawluk Shira Reichbart Lynda Richard
Cathy Leahy Justin Lee Ryan Little Paul Longtin Tracy Love Shannon Mascarin Ron McKinnon Raymond Michaud Allison Nelson
John F. Fraser Jean Giguere Charron Hamilton Yude Henteleff Ken Houssin Gordon Keatch Colin R. MacArthur, QC Patrick J. Matthews
Leanne Romaniuk Teresa Rydberg Emile Samuels Jim Sankey Willy Slipetz Evita Smordin Ron Snider Sheila Snider Ron Solecki
Claire W. Miller Jeffrey Morton, FCA Hon. Jack Murta Lillian Neaman Shelley Nimchonok Andrew Ogaranko, QC James Pappas John Petersmeyer
Alison Loat Andrew Luczenczyn Ian Phillips Claude Robert Jacquline Robertson Jessica Rose Ben Ross Rob Rowan Andrew Sanger Karen Schellenberg Cari Simpson Stephen Vende Vyere Dana Weber Mike Wright Libid Zyla Harder
Lawrence Prout Jeff Quinton Patricia Rabson Margaret Redmond Susan Skinner Al Snyder Maureen Watchorn
Tom Hendry Theatre Front-of-House Kim Cossette, Front-of-House Manager Scott Tweedy, Assistant House Manager Phyllis Hildebrand, Tia Levine, Pam Neal, Cristin Sinclair, Chelsea Zacharias Wardrobe Thora Lamont, Cutter Lorraine O’Leary, Head of Wardrobe Lois Powne, First Hand Jackie Van Winkle, Buyer/Accessories Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival & Master Playwright Festival Samantha Harrison, Festival Assistant Chuck McEwen, Executive Producer Rob Ring, Interim Festival Director
Teresa Sosa Stacie St. Goddard Gerri Stemler Gordon Stewart Alex Stornel Cliff Stornel Josée Vaillancourt Brenda VanDekerkhove Greg Walker
Charlotte Wanke Kira Watson Alfred Wiebe Guy Wood Jane Wood Terry Woods Patrick Wright Jeremiah Yarmie Victoria Yeung
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PG# Show Title
Genre
26 7 Ways to Die, a love story Play: Comedy 78 ‘33, a kabarett Musical Theatre 60 The Abyss Burrow Other 42 The Adversary Storytelling/Spoken Word 52 Aerial Allusions Dance 48 Afterlives Play: Comedy 34 Against the Wall Play: Drama 84 The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs Play: Drama 68 Airship Dance 38 Almost an Evening Play: Comedy 34 Andrea von Wichert is OVEREXPOSED … Storytelling/Spoken Word 30 The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine Play: Comedy 80 Antigone Play: Drama 52 Artichoke Heart Play: Comedy 86 Back to Berlin Play: Drama 64 BAD GIRLS: Dangerous Curves Play: Drama 56 BAD GIRLS: Sunny Side Up Play: Comedy 30 Baggage. Play: Drama 18 The Ballad of Herbie Cox Dance 18 Bare Musical Theatre 38 Barker’s Battle Play: Drama 18 Big In Germany Play: Comedy 64 The Big Stupid Improv Show Improv/Sketch Comedy 18 The BIRDMANN in Events of Momentous … Play: Comedy 76 Body Language Improv/Sketch Comedy 56 Bookworm Play: Comedy 26 Breaking Rank! Play: Drama 70 Broken Wings Play: Comedy 48 Burnt at the Steak Play: Comedy 52 Cabaret Musical Theatre 26 Catch As Catch Can Play: Drama 42 Choose Your Adventure: An Improvised Tale Improv/Sketch Comedy 78 The Complete History of the Moustache Play: Comedy 86 The Courier Play: Drama 80 Cupid and Psyche Play: Comedy 26 The Curious Case of the Killer Crossword Play: Comedy 22 Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Play: Drama 60 The Darling Family Play: Drama 22 DAVES OF THEIR LIVES Play: Comedy 22 The Death Test Storytelling/Spoken Word 86 The Distance Between Trees Play: Drama 76 D’n’D Improv IV Improv/Sketch Comedy 27 Donkey Derby Play: Comedy 22 ELLAmentary: A One-person Musical … Musical Theatre 56 The Fat Guy Show Play: Comedy 56 The First Canadian President Of The … Play: Comedy 27 Fishbowl Play: Comedy 48 Flashback Dance 52 Fools for Love Play: Comedy 34 FRAZ: Lonely At Last Play: Comedy 72 Fresher, the Musical Musical Theatre 82 Fringe Family Fun Show Storytelling/Spoken Word 64 Fubuki Daiko: Godzilla vs. Led Zeppelin Other 34 Gametes and Gonads Play: Comedy 30 The Getaway Play: Comedy 30 The Good, The Bad, and The Stupid Play: Comedy 86 The Greatest Guitarist in the World Other 38 Guernica Play: Drama 60 Hitler’s Li’l Abomination Play: Drama
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PG# Show Title
Genre
68 The Holy Land Experience Storytelling/Spoken Word 60 The Horrible Friends: Addition by Subtraction Improv/Sketch Comedy 53 Huff Play: Drama 61 Human Rites Storytelling/Spoken Word 42 I Hate Bill Pats Storytelling/Spoken Word 77 IL DUO: World Tour Musical Theatre 38 Illuminati 3: The End of the World Musical Theatre 64 ImproVision: VooDoo Burlesque Improv/Sketch Comedy 65 In Adagio Play: Drama 53 In/side the Box Other 65 The Insomniac’s Tenant Play: Drama 57 Irregardless Improv/Sketch Comedy 42 The Jackie Show Play: Comedy 69 jem rolls: TEN STARTS AND AN END Storytelling/Spoken Word 35 Jesus Christ’s Favourite Comedian Stand-up Comedy 23 Jumpman Bros. Enter 8 bit Underland Multimedia 48 Kuravolution: Chickens of the world unite Play: Comedy 43 KUWAITI MOONSHINE Play: Drama 70 Lady Skits Play: Comedy 19 The Last Man on Earth Play: Comedy 28 The Last Time Play: Drama 49 Le Frenchword Presents Fancy Mud Other 54 Leave the Radio On Storytelling/Spoken Word 35 Lies! Other 23 Like Lightning Play: Drama 19 LITTLE LADY Other 88 Little Orange Man Other 88 LOON Play: Comedy 61 Lost and Left Behind Storytelling/Spoken Word 84 Lulu: A Monster Tragedy Play: Drama 84 Lungs Play: Drama 39 Maiden Voyage 4: Come Hell or High Water Play: Comedy 57 Mamasita Can’t Do It All Play: Comedy 82 The Man Who Wasn’t There Play: Drama 20 Mary & Martha Play: Drama 31 Matt & Ben Play: Comedy 72 Medicine Storytelling/Spoken Word 68 Minding Dad Play: Drama 78 More Power to Your Knitting, Nell! Musical Theatre 49 Morning Coffee Play: Comedy 80 Mr. Flatland Comedy Improv/Sketch Comedy 58 Murder at the Fringe Play: Comedy 43 My Heart is a Glass Pinata Storytelling/Spoken Word 31 MY THREE MOMS Play: Comedy 66 N.C.S.I.S.N.Y.P.D. (aka The Procedural) Play: Comedy 78 Ne Me Quitte Pas Piaf and Brel … Other 36 Next Play: Comedy 74 No Tweed Too Tight Play: Comedy 74 Of Mice and Morro and Jasp Play: Comedy 39 The Optimists Play: Comedy 74 Orphans Play: Comedy 80 Outside Joke’s Summertime Party Jam! Improv/Sketch Comedy 50 Peter ‘n Chris and the Mystery of the … Play: Comedy 62 Pilgrimage: Why I’m not an Indian Play: Drama 20 The Plague Doctor’s Daughter Play: Drama 54 The Poor Fools present Tutti Fooli … Play: Comedy 62 power | play (choose your own adventure) Storytelling/Spoken Word 62 Preparation Hex Storytelling/Spoken Word 58 Pretending Things are a Cock Storytelling/Spoken Word
PG# Show Title
Genre
72 The Progressive Polygamists … Play: Comedy 88 Puzzled Other 40 The Qualm Other 62 Redheaded Stepchild Play: Comedy 32 Revolver 101 Play: Drama 24 RiderGirl Play: Comedy 20 Rubbish Other 82 The Saints of British Rock Other 28 The Screw You Revue Presents Lady Winifred Other 50 The Seducer’s Diary Play: Drama 40 Shades of Grey Play: Drama 54 She Has a Name Play: Drama 79 Shelby Bond – The Poor Man’s Guide To … Play: Comedy 50 Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Hansom … Play: Comedy 50 Sin Eater Multimedia 44 Social Dialysis Storytelling/Spoken Word 76 Sound & Fury’s “Dirty Fairy Tales” Play: Comedy 70 States of Shock: A Vaudeville Nightmare Play: Comedy 28 Strange Dreamz Stand-up Comedy 66 Stretchmarks Play: Comedy 44 Surf Chimps Play: Comedy 24 Tales My Mother Never Told Me Storytelling/Spoken Word 76 Tazzy’s Angels Stand-up Comedy 24 Teacher in the House Play: Comedy 72 Teaching Hamlet Play: Comedy 28 TEMPLE OF KHAOS: A Modern Myth Play: Comedy 20 This Town Play: Comedy 36 Threads: The True Story of an Indiana … Storytelling/Spoken Word 88 Three-letter Words Storytelling/Spoken Word 74 Til Death Do We Part: The Six Wives of … Play: Comedy 32 Ton Frère/Your Brother Play: Drama 69 Tonight Only Improv/Sketch Comedy 32 The Touring Test Play: Comedy 36 The Tracey Fragments Play: Drama 40 Trashbot Apocalypse: A Love Story Multimedia 54 TRUE STORY Play: Drama 32 The Tucker Mother Lode Play: Drama 66 Two Corpses Go Dancing Musical Theatre 36 The Ukrainian Dentist’s Daughter Play: Drama 44 unADULTeRATED LOVE Other 66 Underbelly Play: Drama 24 Unenlightened Storytelling/Spoken Word 58 Vernus Says SURPRISE Play: Comedy 44 Wanted, If Not Wed Play: Comedy 58 The Water Is Wide Storytelling/Spoken Word 40 Wings Of Darkness Play: Drama 79 The Witch Storytelling/Spoken Word 84 ZACK ADAMS: A Complete History Of … Play: Comedy
16 African Folktales with Erik de Waal Storytelling/Spoken Word 16 Ant! Storytelling/Spoken Word 16 Dr. Sprocket’s Incredible Storytelling Machine Improv/Sketch Comedy 16 Lavinia: A Modern Fairy Tale of Gigantic … Play: Comedy 17 The Tempest Play: Drama 17 Top Dog Other 17 The World of The Brothers Grimm Play: Comedy
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PG# company name show title
PG# company name show title
18 > Sum of Its Parts The Ballad of Herbie Cox 35 155 Avenue Productions Jesus Christ’s Favourite Comedian 74 The 28th Minute Orphans 28 55BC Strange Dreamz 34 Active Salad Productions Gametes and Gonads 54 Aerial Angels TRUE STORY 42 Andrew Bailey The Adversary 60 Annette Roman Hitler’s Li’l Abomination 65 Art and Lies Productions In Adagio 56 Ashek Theatre The First Canadian President … 65 aztec theatre The Insomniac’s Tenant 56 The Baggy Pants The Fat Guy Show 31 Bananafish Theatre Matt & Ben 42 Bessie-Jean Productions I Hate Bill Pats 43 Better to Burn Out/Tim C. Murphy KUWAITI MOONSHINE 78 Big Empty Barn Productions ‘33, a kabarett 56 Big Sandwich Productions Bookworm 69 big word performance poetry jem rolls: TEN STARTS AND AN END 76 Bipolar Buddha Productions Tazzy’s Angels 18 The Birdmann The BIRDMANN in Events of … 32 Bitter Pill Ensemble The Tucker Mother Lode 60 Broken Still Productions The Darling Family 40 Burning Meatloaf The Qualm 48 Burnt at the Steak Burnt at the Steak 54 Burnt Thicket Theatre She Has a Name 52 By Azana Aerial Allusions 62 Cameryn Moore power | play (choose your … 22 Chirpy Teen Productions ELLAmentary: A One-person … 86 Colin Godbout The Greatest Guitarist in the World 82 Comedy Illusions of Greg Wood Fringe Family Fun Show 60 Concrete Drops The Abyss Burrow 43 Craving Space Productions My Heart is a Glass Pinata 52 Crosswalk Players Cabaret 69 CRUMBS Tonight Only 28 DANIEL NIMMO TEMPLE OF KHAOS: A Modern Myth 23 Daryl’s World Industries Jumpman Bros. Enter 8 bit … 86 Death & Taxes Theatre Back to Berlin 53 Dependent Theatre Productions Huff 84 District Theatre Collective The Agony and the Ecstasy of … 72 Doctor Keir Co. Teaching Hamlet 48 Drek Daa Kuravolution: Chickens of the … 48 Drive Dance Flashback 34 dubious company Andrea von Wichert is … 62 Elaine Magree Pilgrimage: Why I’m not an Indian 24 Elizabeth Blue Unenlightened 79 Erik de Waal The Witch 20 Eye Flower Productions Rubbish 39 Fallis & Ball’s Maiden Voyage 4: Come Hell or … 68 Femmes du Feu Airship 80 Flatland Comedy Mr. Flatland Comedy 78 Folie du Théâtre Ne Me Quitte Pas Piaf and Brel … 20 Found In New York Productions This Town 58 Fringetastic! Vernus Says SURPRISE 64 Fubuki Daiko Fubuki Daiko: Godzilla vs. Led … 64 Glamorgan Productions BAD GIRLS: Dangerous Curves 30 Green with Envy Productions Baggage. 38 Hidden Harlequin Theatre Guernica 60 The Horrible Friends The Horrible Friends: Addition … 76 Hot Thespian Action Body Language
26 Howard Petrick Breaking Rank! 77 Il Duo Productions IL DUO: World Tour 64 ImproVision ImproVision: VooDoo Burlesque 26 Insania Brevis The Curious Case of the Killer … 30 inspired I theatre The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine 62 John Montgomery Theatre Company Preparation Hex 58 JonBennettComedy.com Pretending Things are a Cock 61 Jurasco Productions Human Rites 19 Keystone Theatre The Last Man on Earth 66 Kimmy Zee Stretchmarks 42 Kingbaby Productions The Jackie Show 38 Kiss the Giraffe Productions Illuminati 3: The End of the World 49 Le Frenchword Le Frenchword Presents Fancy Mud 86 LineaR Productions The Distance Between Trees 84 little ECHO theatre Lulu: A Monster Tragedy 27 Little Green Hat Donkey Derby 19 little lady LITTLE LADY 50 Little Light Theatre The Seducer’s Diary 72 Local Rascal Productions Medicine 82 London UK Records Ltd The Saints of British Rock 50 Lonely Egg Sherlock Holmes: The Case of … 82 Looking Glass Productions The Man Who Wasn’t There 27 Mark Shyzer Fishbowl 68 Martin Dockery The Holy Land Experience 22 MegaKrenn The Death Test 36 minute and a huff productions Next 66 Monkey Centurion Productions N.C.S.I.S.N.Y.P.D. (aka The … 74 Monster Theatre Til Death Do We Part: The Six … 88 MTYP Yo.Co. Puzzled 70 MUFF-Stache Collective Lady Skits 18 The Musical Theatre Company Bare 38 Naughty Sailboat Almost an Evening 62 Nobody’s Business Theatre Redheaded Stepchild 28 Old Boy Productions The Last Time 20 One Bird Walking Theatre The Plague Doctor’s Daughter 80 Outside Joke Outside Joke’s Summertime … 42 Parking Lots Improv Choose Your Adventure: An … 50 Peter ‘n Chris Peter ‘n Chris and the Mystery … 58 Phoenix Productions Murder at the Fringe 30 Pi: The Physical Comedy Troupe The Good, The Bad, and The Stupid 72 PKF Productions The Progressive Polygamists … 44 The Placeholder Show Surf Chimps 54 Poor Theatre Company The Poor Fools present Tutti … 28 Prairie Fire Presents The Screw You Revue Presents … 34 Prairie Q productions Against the Wall 50 Present State Movement Sin Eater 64 The Probable Cast The Big Stupid Improv Show 78 Puppy Ranch The Complete History of the … 22 Qster Productions Danny and the Deep Blue Sea 44 Rachelle Fordyce unADULTeRATED LOVE 34 randombandname productions FRAZ: Lonely At Last 58 Randy Rutherford Presents The Water Is Wide 76 Red River Serial D’n’D Improv IV 39 Relativity Theatre The Optimists 32 Resonator Theatrical Revolver 101 40 R-G Productions Shades of Grey 68 RibbitRepublic Minding Dad 24 RiderGirl RiderGirl 56 The Roguespeare Players BAD GIRLS: Sunny Side Up
22 Run Ragged Company DAVES OF THEIR LIVES 26 Ruus Productions Catch As Catch Can 74 Ryan Gladstone No Tweed Too Tight 24 Saucy Gal Productions Tales My Mother Never Told Me 61 Seismic Shift Productions Lost and Left Behind 26 Selchie Theatre 7 Ways to Die, a love story 40 Shadling Productions Trashbot Apocalypse: A Love Story 79 Shelby Bond Shelby Bond – The Poor Man’s … 20 Shoestring Mary & Martha 53 Sinéad Cormack In/side the Box 57 Sinful Hags Mamasita Can’t Do It All 78 Sisterscene More Power to Your Knitting, Nell! 38 Small Heroes Theatre Barker’s Battle 52 Small Matters Productions Fools for Love 88 SNAFU Dance Theatre Little Orange Man 70 Snakeskin Jacket States of Shock: A Vaudeville … 76 Sound & Fury Sound & Fury’s “Dirty Fairy Tales” 36 Squeezebox Mama The Tracey Fragments 57 Stacey Hallal Irregardless 66 Stars And Hearts Underbelly 32 Steak & Sushi Productions Ton Frère/Your Brother 80 The Struts and Frets Players Cupid and Psyche 48 Surreal Soreal Theatre Afterlives 70 take me home Broken Wings 18 Ten Foot Pole Productions Big In Germany 54 Ten Thousand Wolves Leave the Radio On 49 Theatre 1974 Morning Coffee 84 Theatre by the River Lungs 52 Theatre Outgrabe Artichoke Heart 30 Thin Lizotte The Getaway 80 This Reality Theatre Antigone 36 Tonya Jone Miller Threads: The True Story of an … 35 Travis Bernhardt Lies! 32 Treading Water The Touring Test 66 Two Unruly Gentlemen Two Corpses Go Dancing 74 Up your Nose and In your Toes (U.N.I.T.) Of Mice and Morro and Jasp 31 Virginia Bryan MY THREE MOMS 24 Watson Arts Teacher in the House 84 WEEPING SPOON PRODUCTIONS ZACK ADAMS: A Complete … 44 Whether to Fly Social Dialysis 40 White Rabbit Productions Inc. Wings Of Darkness 86 Who Knows Prod. The Courier 72 Winnipeg Studio Theatre Fresher, the Musical 88 WONDERHEADS LOON 88 The Works Three-letter Words 36 Yana Kesala The Ukrainian Dentist’s Daughter 23 YerStory Like Lightning 44 Zinnia Productions Wanted, If Not Wed
17 Knavish Hedgehog Productions The Tempest 17 Merlyn Productions The World of The Brothers Grimm 16 Monster Theatre for Kids Lavinia: A Modern Fairy Tale … 17 Puppy Productions Top Dog 16 Real Live Entertainment Dr. Sprocket’s Incredible … 16 song & flight Ant! 16 YAP Theatre African Folktales with Erik de Waal
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KING
OF THE MOVERS
KING’S TRANSFER
Thanks to these individuals and businesses who helped us along the way! ABC Fire & Safety, Arlea Ashcroft, Tim Babcock, Sharon Bajer, John Bent Jr., Kenny Boyce, Dave Brown, David Budzak, Wayne Buss!, Calmont Trucks, Cambridge Hotel, Blair Cosgrove, Andrew Cecon, Rick Chafe, Cinematheque, Country John’s Portable Toilets, Dave Cousins, Curtis Cushnie, Larry Desrochers, Nicolas Di Gaetano, Brian Drader, Todd Drader, Murray Farnell, Folklorama, Frontier College, Funtastic Party Planners, Gas Station Arts Centre, Hart Greenberg, Shannon Guile, Tim Harding, Odette Heyn-Penner, Jason Hooper, Hot Thespian Action, Toby Hughes, IATSE Local 63, Jaimie Oliviero, Jennaya Isaac, Alicia Johnston, Jay Khanuja, King’s Head Pub, Ian Kirk, Kevin Klassen, Trevor Klippenstein, Nick Kowalchuk, Rob Kristjansson, KW Data Solutions, Merry Lang, Little Bones Wingery, Jacqueline Loewen, Long & McQuade, Brent Lott, Rick MacPherson, Derek Manaigre, Manitoba Museum, Manitoba Theatre for Young People, Russell Martin, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Charlene Melvin, Veronica Mensforth, Garth Merkeley, Mi Casa, Ryan Miller, Kristy Muckosky, Yvette Nolan, Oak Hammock Marsh, Jamie Oliviero, Panago Pizza, Park Theatre, Party Stuff, Emily Pearlman, Pete Petovitch, Ellen Peterson, Julia Pouliot, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Prairie Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, Rainbow Stage, Riding Mountain National Park, Jim Rink, Liette Robert, Krista Rosnow, Ben Ross, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Chris Sabel, Allan Sansom, The School of Contemporary Dancers, Lora Schroeder, Sidewalk Sizzler, Chris Sigurdson, RobYn Slade, Christopher Sobczak, Sound Art, The Tallest Poppy, Melinda Tallin, Jane Testar, Theatre Incarnate, Think First, Faye Thompson, Brian Timmerman, U of W Theatre Department, Charlene Van Buekenhout, Veronica Mensforth, Kevin Wiebe, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg Fire Department, Winnipeg Goldeyes Baseball Club, Winnipeg Police Service, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, WPS Mounted Patrol
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