Archive for the ‘Premiere’ Category

Die Roten Punkte – Super Musikant (Super Musician)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

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

Old Growth

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

by Alex Eddington

See the Forest! Two troubled young musicians travel to the Queen Charlotte Islands to perform for a murdered spruce tree. Two troubled young musicians travel to the Queen Charlotte Islands to perform for a murdered spruce tree. Award-winning playwright/composer Alex Eddington (The Fugue Code) and acclaimed Ottawa flutist Aura Giles weave together fact, fiction, magic and music into a unique story about an eco-prophet for our time. “Brilliantly theatrical…****” – Eye Weekly “A must-see…superb…****” – Edmonton Journal

Crude Love

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

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

The Spy

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

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

The Triumph of Judith Shakespeare

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

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

Inferno Sonata

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

by Scott Sharplin

2008 AWARD WINNER - OUTSTANDING CONCEPT

Swedish playwright August Strindberg has uncovered the ancient alchemical secret of creating gold. Join him as he risks everything—his career, his marriage, his sanity, and his soul—to unveil the secrets of the cosmos. A feverish, poetic whirlwind trip to hell and back, complete with smoke and mirrors. Based on a true delirium.

Naked Famous People

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

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

Eggstatic

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

by Ardyth Johnson

Everything’s Coming Up Tea Bags!

A daily cup of Tetley is interrupted by “The Egg”…As she

is Entertaining Mr.Porter, Julie Nash discovers that her

Boarding House Blues will soon be over. Her little Ginger Spice World

opens up to the possibility of freedom!

Is Robert ready for this?

Perhaps the galaxy has other plans..

www.ardythjohnson.com

Sorrow

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

by Alan Jeans

2008 AWARD WINNER - OUTSTANDING DRAMA

This one woman show is a fictitious account of the real life of Clasina Maria Hoornik (also known as Sien), prostitute, model, and mistress of the painter Vincent Van Gogh. As she prepares to drown herself Sien vividly re-lives her journey from the innocence of her youth to the depths of her ultimate sorrow.

http://sorrow-sien.blogspot.com

Mr. Fox

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Mr. Fox

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