by Randy Rutherford

2008 AWARD WINNER - OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL WORK

***** 21 times “BEST OF FRINGE”

A folksinger in 70s Alaska, Randy had it all, an adoring girlfriend and a great gig at the Fancy Moose Saloon, then congenital hearing loss sucked the sound from his world forever…

“Emotionally honest, surprisingly funny.” ***** Monday Magazine

“A gorgeous musical memoir…” ***** Winnipeg Free Press

“A powerhouse, a triumph.” ***** Edmonton Journal

www.pkfproductions.com

by TJ Dawe

Fringe workhorse TJ Dawe (Maxim & Cosmo, co-writer: 52 Pick-up & The Power of Ignorance, director: Teaching As You Like It, Teaching the Fringe & Mr. Fox) returns, with a look at his personal mythology, the faces on his own Mt. Rushmore. "TJ Dawe is a phenomenon" - Globe & Mail .

www.tjdawe.com

by Otto & Astrid Rot

2008 AWARD WINNER - OUTSTANDING OVERALL PERFORMANCE

“Don’t miss this hilarious parody, a send up of punk rock and Eurotrash” Vancouver Sun

“inspired, brilliantly executed lunacy” The Gazette, Montreal

“fist pumping fun of the highest order” Eye Weekly, Toronto

“narcissism, sibling rivalry…The Rot’s Rule!” Toronto Star

***** Vue Weekly, Edmonton

***** Planet S Magazine, Saskatoon

***** Star Phoenix, Saskatoon

***** Monday Magazine, Victoria

**** Winnipeg Free Press

www.myspace.com/dierotenpunkte

by Russell Bennett and Gillian Bennett

2008 AWARD WINNER - OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

In the near future in the harsh Alberta oil sands, a cynical eco-warrior falls in love with a Newfie woman dump truck driver. (new line) From the creators of the award-winning “Reefer Man”, “Self-Storage” and “Rocket Man” – Pick of the Fringe: Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver. “Hilarious, Romantic” -Edmonton Sun “Simply outstanding” -Westender Magazine “Raw, Passionate, Irresistible” -Times Colonist “Intelligent Comedy”-CBC Winnipeg

www.bigsmokeproductions.com

by Created and Performed by Jonno Katz Directed by Mark Chavez

Get entangled in a woven web of espionage and comedy by award winning actor/director Jonno Katz.London 1975. Seymour Fogs is recruited from an avante-guarde paratheatrical group to the British Secret Service. What follows is a perilous tale of intrigue, subterfuge and double agents. Who is the mole? Can he trust the Silver Fox? And would the real Yevgeny Aleksandrovich please stand up?

www.epicworlds.com

by Laurie Fyffe

A chorus of prostitutes, muses, wily stockbrokers and daemons resurrect a pining poet from the 15th century and charge her to pen a merry masterpiece - in 2008! Don’t miss this off-the-theatrical-wall comic tale of seduction, betrayal, re-writes and rhyming revisionism - with sword fight! Brought to you by an intrepid ensemble of OSSD’s finest pre-professional thespians!

www.ossd.com

by Glen Callender UFA

Enter a pulsating vortex of bliss! Armed with a vintage keyboard, a $5 garage-sale accordion and other questionable implements, award-winning laugh-meister Glen Callender UFA purveys an unpredictable mélange of music and mayhem. Don’t miss the unique alt-comedy experience The Province declared a “Pick of the Fringe” and The Georgia Straight called “A very funny show!”

www.TranMast.com

The audience

Insensitivity Training has been improvising together every week for over a year. Each of their performances will be totally unique. Their spontaneous, unapologetic style of comedy is based entirely on your suggestions. The scenes, songs and irreverent rants you will see are Insensitivity Training’s trademarks. Insensitivity Training brings you everything you want, including Naked Famous People.

www.insensitivitytraining.com

by Greg Landucci

Fringe legend TJ Dawe and Greg Landucci have teamed up again! Following the sold-out success of the 2006/07 Fringe hit DISHPIG ( “Best of Fest” Winnipeg, “Patron’s Pick” Orlando, “Pick of the Fringe” Vancouver) they bring you a behind-the-scenes look at the twisted world of a rock radio station mascot.

www.greglanducci.com

by Edward Albee

A middle-class publishing executive has a bizarre encounter with a lonely and troubled man in New York’s Central Park. This first play by acclaimed American playwright Edward Albee combines elements of realism and the absurd in its examination of isolation, alienation, social disparity, and the dehumanizing effects of living in a commercial world.