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VENUE 1 :: 755 Pandora
Downtown Activity Centre (Sponsored by CFUV)
Chasing
Bliss
Jolene Bailie / Cuppa Jo Solo Dance
by Jose Limon, Jolene Bailie and others
Winnipeg MB
Modern Dance - 60 minutes - All Ages
All Seats $8
"The strength of coiled steel and the pliancy of rubber"
(National Post). Jolene Bailie, presents Cuppa Jo: Chasing Bliss. New
programme! Jose Limon’s Dances For Isadora and more! Third national
fringe tour, well-deserved reputation for professional, classy and physically
intense performances. "Rare opportunity to share an hour with a superlative
dancer obviously at the top of her game" (Edmonton Sun)
www.cuppa-jo.com
Fri, Aug 26, 9:45 PM
Sat, Aug 27, 3:45 PM
Sun, Aug 28, 8:00 PM
Weds, Aug 31, 6:15 PM
Sat, Sept 3, 5:45 PM
Mon, Sept 5, 7:45 PM
Soul
Stories
Sharon Wehner Solo Dance
by Anna Wyman, Gisa Cole, Sharon Wehner
Vancouver, BC
Dance - 60 minutes - All Ages
$8 / $7 Students & Seniors
Soul Stories (There’s a camel on my back) opens hearts and showers them with joy. A one-woman performance of 5 solo dances performed by "the special arms and legs of Sharon Wehner" (Georgia Straight). "Stunning" (***** Monday Magazine) "So vibrant and energetic" (CBC Winnipeg) "She deserves attention" (Winnipeg Free Press) "A joy to watch" (Coast Reporter) "Brilliant... a master" (Georgia Straight) www.swsd.ca
Thurs, Aug 25, 6:15 PM
Fri, Aug 26, 8:00 PM
Sat, Aug 27, 7:15 PM
Fri, Sept 2, 6:15 PM
Sun, Sept 4, 1:00 PM
Mon, Sept 5, 9:30 PM
Potentilla
BumbleBee Theatre Collective
by Meg Braem
Victoria BC
Drama - 80 minutes - Adults Only
$8 / $6 Students & Seniors
WINNER OF THE 2005 INTREPID PETRI DISH NEW PLAY COMPETITON. A series of conversations and interactions between a murderer and a member of the victim's family; both of whom share a similar background, having lived through the hot summers of the Okanagan valley. The tension of their growing intimacy leads to a freedom from various forms of imprisonment. Potentilla refers to an Okanagan flower that grows best when baked and starved. Adult Themes
Thurs, Aug 25, 8:00 PM
Sat, Aug 27, 10:45 PM
Sun, Aug 28, 6:00 PM
Weds, Aug 31, 10:00 PM
Sat, Sept 3, 11:00 PM
Sun, Sept 4, 8:15 PM
Nostalgia
Trip Tic
Co-Production Canada/France: SoundMoves/Pantheatre
by Sharon Feder
(Directed in Collaboration with Enrique Pardo)
Vancouver / Paris
Mixed Media Performance - 70 minutes - Adult
$8 / $6 Students & Seniors
At one end of a long corridor, a woman stands facing her future. Or is it her past? Everything is sepia coloured and faded like an old photograph. She is motionless as if stopped in her tracks, caught between where she’s going and where she’s coming from. A re-reading of the character Hermine from Herman Hesse’s 1927 novel, Steppenwolf. Parental Guidance: Nudity, Adult Themes
Tues, Aug 30, 6:00 PM
Weds, Aug 31, 8:00 PM
Fri, Sept 2, 9:45 PM
Sat, Sept 3, 2:00 PM
Sun, Sept 4, 6:15 PM
Mon, Sept 5, 5:45 PM
Saucy
Fops: The Musical?
Saucy Fops
by Cayman Duncan & Terri Runnalls
Kamloops, BC
Original Musical Comedy - 60 minutes - Adult
All Seats $8
Some people love Musicals. And some people hate people who love Musicals. With these facts in mind, the company behind last year’s Articulate ***** (Winnipeg Free Press) have created a fast-paced and hilarious show that will captivate those who despise Musicals - along with those nuts who have a poster of CATS on their wall. Parental Guidance: Coarse Language, Adult Themes
Fri, Aug 26, 6:15 PM
Sat, Aug 27, 9:00 PM
Sun, Aug 28, 4:15 PM
Mon, Aug 29. 9:45 PM
Fri, Sept 2, 8:00 PM
Sat, Sept 3, 4:00 PM
Self-Storage
mon amour, mon amour
by Gillian Stevens-Guille & Russell Bennett
Vancouver, BC
Comedic Drama - 60 minutes - Adult
All seats $8
Meet Normal. She has been knocked up, and down, and down. So she holes up in a storage container to find a way back to herself. From the creators of last year’s Fringe Hit, The Reefer Man. ***** "Simply outstanding. This is solo theatre at its best." (Monday Magazine) "This performer and these writers deserve your precious time." (CBC Winnipeg) Parental Guidance: Coarse Language, Adult Themes, Sexual Content
Mon, Aug 29, 6:15 PM
Tues, Aug 30, 8:00 PM
Thurs, Sept 1, 9:45 PM
Sat, Sept 3, 7:30 PM
Sun, Sept 4, 4:30 PM
Mon, Sept 5, 12:30 PM
Rocket
Man
Big Smoke Productions
by Russell Bennett & Gillian Stevens-Guille
Vancouver, BC
Cosmic Satire - 60 minutes - Adult
All seats $8
Fired from NASA, Nolan Hunt searches for his alien abductors and accidentally falls in love. From the creators of The Reefer Man, Winner of Best Actor in a Comedy, Victoria Fringe. "This is Fringe the way it's meant to be." (Times Colonist) Parental Guidance: Coarse Language, Adult Themes
Mon, Aug 29, 8:00 PM
Tues, Aug 30, 9:45 PM
Thurs, Sept 1, 6:15 PM
Sat, Sept 3, 9:15 PM
Sun, Sept 4, 2:45 PM
Mon, Sept 5, 2:15 PM
The
Fear of Going Down
Theatre Tart
by Megan Garriock
Vancouver, BC
Modern Romantic Comedy - 55 minutes - Adult
All seats $8
A Fringe Premiere brought to you by Theatre Tart, producers of past Fringe hits Kreskinned, To Wit to Wed to Woo, and Tit for Tat. A romantic twosome gets more than they bargained for when their lovers' tiff transforms into all out war. Stuck between floors and caught up in their overwhelming desire for each other and their compulsive need to be right - can anybody come out on top? Parental Guidance: Nudity
Thur, Aug 25, 10:00 PM
Sat, Aug 27, 5:30 PM
Sun, Aug 28, 9:45 PM
Thur, Sept 1, 8:00 PM
Sun, Sept 4, 10:00 PM
Mon, Sept 5, 4:00 PM