The Rambler at the Fringe!

From the Sterling award winning company that brought you last year's sold out run of Bromance comes... The Rambler By Mark Stubbings BYOV 17 - Aug 16-25 @ Red Square Vodka House. All shows at 7pm   The Rivet family has been playing “true” country music for more than a decade. But with music venues closing and their Father’s ability waning, Nate and Kenny Rivet are in a tough spot. Kenny is desperate to find a new “sound”, Nate is busy defending himself from his violent on again off again girlfriend Becky and their old man has had it with the both of them. When a family secret is revealed, Kenny and the old man hit the road in search of a lost love with Nate in pursuit. A story about lost love, arthritis, naked Polaroids and the things we don’t know about the people we love. Original songs performed by Andy Northrup, Lindsey Walker and Brian Bergum with lyrics by Mark Stubbings. Cast: Old Man Rivet: Andy Northrup (Hamlet) Nate Rivet: Mark Stubbings (The Wooden O, Drinking Alone, Walterdale One Acts) Kenny Rivet: Brian Bergum (Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead)Becky: Lindsey Walker (reasons to be pretty, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) Stage Manager: Crystal Oleksyn (The Threepenny Opera) Producer: Joshua Semchuk Sound Designer: Brian Bergum Technical Advisor: Trent Crosby Director: Dave DeGagné (The Beaver Effect, Heroes)

50% Fruit Theatre Takes on CARRIE: The Musical at the Fringe!

50% Fruit Theatre proudly presents

CARRIE: THE MUSICAL
Music by Michael Gore
Lyrics by Dean Pitchford
Book by Lawrence D. Cohen
Based on the Novel by Stephen King

 

Directed by: Zachary Parsons-Lozinski (The Misanthrope)
Stage Manager: Erika Grace
Musical Director: Daniel Belland (The Misanthrope)
Choreographed by: Amanda Neufeld (The Misanthrope)
Fight Direction: Chance Heck (Summer and Smoke, The Ugly Spot)

Poster Designed by: Erin MacGregor
Promotional Photography: Janine Waddell (The Misanthrope, Nine, Skin of Our Teeth, Anthony & Cleopatra, Crimes of the Heart)
Synopsis:
Carrie White is a misfit. At school, she's an outcast who's bullied by the popular crowd, and virtually invisible to everyone else. At home, she's at the mercy of her loving but cruelly over-protective mother. But Carrie's just discovered she's got a special power, and if pushed too far, she's not afraid to use it...

Starring:

Carrie White: Alyssa Billingsley
Margaret White: Amanda Neufeld
Sue Snell: Jaimi Reese
Tommy Ross: Zachary Parsons-Lozinski
Chris Hargensen: Hillary Gillett
Billy Nolan / Male Voice: Brennan MacGregor (The Misanthrope)
Miss Gardner: Kerry Johnson
Mr. Stephens / Reverend Bliss / Freddy: Adam Mazerolle-Kuss (Hamlet, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown!, Nine, Current Artistic Director) Norma / Female Voice: Abigail MacGregor
George: Chance Heck
Helen: Bethany Hughes (The Misanthrope, upcoming - Proof)

Piano: Daniel Belland
Guitar: Justin Moes
Drums: Brendan Lyons
Bass: Martin Hagen

La Cite Francophone - L'Unitheatre
August 16-22, 24
All Shows at 9:00 PM

Little Shop Brings Alien Man-eating Plants to the 2013 Fringe!

No Tomatoes Theatre, the company that brought the Canadian Premiere of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson to the 2012 Edmonton International Fringe Festival, is proud to present the macabre botanical musical Little Shop of Horrors to Fringe 2013 (August 15-25) at the Campus St. Jean auditorium. Aliens! Plants! A sadistic dentist! You won't want to miss it!

Directed by Lauren Boyd
Music Direction by Michael Clark (Anything Goes)
Choreography by Quinn Ritco-Dooley
Stage Managed by Maddie Pauling

CAST: Dylan Rosychuk, Krista Skwarok (Anything Goes), David Johnston (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Kiss Within a Kiss, The Misanthrope), Andrew Boyd, Kelsey Visscher, Robyn Kumish, Vlady Peychoff, Lauren Boyd.

BAND: Michael Clark (piano), Keat Machtemes (Anything Goes) (synth), Cole Cross (drums), Paul Bergeron (bass), Mike Weihmann (guitar)

Showtimes:
August 16, 6pm
August 17, 6pm
August 18, 12pm
August 20, 5pm
August 22, 5pm
August 23, 4pm
August 24, 12pm & 7pm
August 25, 12pm

 

Neil Gaiman's Fabulous Coraline comes to the Fringe as a Musical!

Impossible Mongoose Productions is proud to present the Canadian Premiere of CORALINE THE MUSICAL at the 2013 Edmonton International Fringe Festival.

This all-ages (8 years +) production with Music and Lyrics by Stephen Merritt and Book by David Greenspan, is an imaginative musical based on the novel by Neil Gaiman that follows a young girl as she discovers a whole other universe behind a big wooden door in her very own home; however, not everything is as it seems. It’s a spooky, colorful and heroic journey about what it means to be brave.

Cast:
Laena Anderson (Coraline)
Kayla Gorman (Other Mother)
Rebecca Ann Merkley (Mother/Miss Spink/Other Miss Spink)
Graham Mothersill (Rabbit Hole) (Cat)
Oscar Derkx (The Threepenny Opera) (Mr. Bobo/Other Mr. Bobo)
Darcy Robinson (Other Father)
Adam Sanders (Father/Miss Forcible/Other Miss Forcible).

Musician Jeff Black will be featured on piano, toy pianos and prepared piano.
Directed and Designed by Corben Kushneryk
Stage Managed by Gynger Callahan

Coraline will be playing at BYOV #44 – Rutherford School (8620 91 Street).

Friday August 16 @ 3:15pm
Sunday August 18 @ 3:15pm
Monday August 19 @ 9pm...
Tuesday August 20 @ 6:30pm
Wednesday August 21 @ 1:30pm
Thursday August 22 @ Noon
Friday August 23 @ 3pm
Saturday August 24 @ 6:45pm
Sunday August 25 @ 1:30pm

 

Running time: 90 mins

Chorus Productions present A Picasso at the Fringe

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

Chorus Productions, winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Award for outstanding Fringe Production presents Sterling Award Winners Julien Arnold and Shannon Blanchet in Jeffery Hatcher's suspenseful pas de deux.

 

Paris, 1941. Pablo Picasso has been summoned by German occupation forces to a storage vault across the city. His interrogator: Miss Fischer, a beautiful "cultural attaché" from Berlin. Her assignment: discover which of the three Picasso paintings recently "confiscated" by the Nazis from their Jewish owners are real. A cat-and-mouse drama about art, politics, sex and truth.

"Artful, remarkable and genuinely dramatic, with impressive sensitivity and wit." —NY Daily News.

Starring: Julien Arnold and Shannon Blanchet
Directed by John Hudson
Stage Manager, Al Gadowsky (Sea of Green, Kiss Within a Kiss, Uncle Robert's Funeral)

At The Varscona Theatre
Friday Aug. 16- 5pm
Sunday Aug. 18- 1pm
Monday Aug. 19- 7pm
Tuesday Aug. 20 - 1pm
Wednesday Aug. 21- 7pm
Thursday Aug. 22- 3pm
Friday Aug. 23 - 1pm
Sunday Aug. 25- 7pm

Claudia Dey's Trout Stanley at the Fringe!

cold.dead.fish theatre and you & me present...
The Edmonton Premier of Claudia Dey's wickedly funny...
TROUT STANLEY at the 2013 Edmonton International Fringe Festival

Directed by Michelle Kennedy
Amanda Bergen as Grace Ducharme
Byron Trevor Martin asTrout Stanley
Jessica Peverett (reasons to be pretty) as Sugar Ducharme

Venue #9: Telus Building (10437 83 Avenue)
August 16, 2013 12:00 PM
August 17, 2013 2:15 PM
August 18, 2013 4:30 PM
August 19, 2013 6:45 PM
August 22, 2013 8:45 PM
August 23, 2013 6:15 PM

“We’re all just lone trees waitin’ for lightening in this world Trout.” says birthday girl and half of the never-before-married virgin twins, Sugar Ducharme. The Ducharme sisters, Grace and Sugar, are on the eve of their 30th birthday when handsome-ish drifter Trout Stanley breezes in to their small hamlet in the backwoods of British Columbia, and changes everything. Is Trout Stanley a killer? Can he be trusted? What does he want with the Ducharme sisters?

TROUT STANLEY is a love story.
TROUT STANLEY is a murder mystery.
TROUT STANLEY is a comedy about three people just trying to find their purpose in a dying world with no care for its inhabitants. 

Death is Bullshit: The Pursuit of Pavement presented by Watch Me Productions at the Fringe!

Watch Me Productions is pleased to present the premiere of Death Is Bullshit: The Pursuit of Pavement a new comedy by Chris W. Cook and Scott Malone at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival.

A raunchy black comedy, Death is Bullshit: The Pursuit of Pavement, follows the hellacious final day of wannabe stand-up comedian Skye (Scott Malone), his controlling twin sister Beth (Ellie Heath), and his inventor/salesman best friend Trent (Chris W. Cook). Skye (barely) works at a law-firm with Beth when he encounters a depressing yet attractive potential client named Willow (Mari Chartier), who sets in motion an evening that will include Skye’s first ever stand-up performance, robbery, kinky sex, and much bloodshed.

Contains: Course language, violence, nudity, sexuality and everything else that makes fringe great.

Featuring: Mari Chartier (The Carrying, Sea of Green), Chris W. Cook (Selection), Ellie Heath, Scatman Malone
Directed by: Taylor Chadwick (Sea of Green, Perdu, Up S*!& Creek)
Sound Design: Brian Berg

Venue #: 6 - Venue: C103 (Catalyst Theatre)

Show Dates:
Thursday August 15: 9:45pm
Sunday August 18: 12pm (Noon)
Tuesday August 20: 11:30pm
Thursday August 22: 4pm
Friday August 23: 2:15pm
Saturday August 24: 6pm

Leo Llama returns to the Fringe with Tuesdays With Morrie

Leo Llama Productions presents Tuesdays With Morrie

By: Mitch Albom and Jeffery Hatcher
Based on the novel by Mitch Albom
Directed and Stage Managed by: Megan Lindmark (DeathTrap, Nine)
Starring: Norm Usiskin (DeathTrap) and Owen Bishop (The Threepenny Opera, Sea of Green)

Morrie is Mitch’s favorite college professor. Years later, Mitch sees an interview of Morrie on TV that reveals he has been diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Every Tuesday Mitch visits Morrie where they discuss family, finances, forgiveness, and everything in between. Morrie professes some of the life’s greatest lessons.

Fringe Venue #3 - Walterdale Playhouse

Show dates
August 16: 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
August 17: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
August 18: 10:30 pm - 12:00 am
August 21: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
August 22: 9:00 pm- 10:30 pm
August 23: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

 

Kayak - Ad Hoc Theatre paddles up to the Fringe!

Ad Hoc Theatre presents Kayak

 

"Some things can't be fixed with a barbecue and a middle-class life plan..."

 

Description: Is this a camping trip gone wrong? Is Annie the type of mother who can only live through her son? When does Annie finally recognize Julie as a daughter-in law - the other woman so completely in her son's life. OR is Annie "Alone in an Ark of One?"

 

Written by Jordan Hall,
Directed by Kimberly Lang,
With Justin Kautz (Anything Goes), Christie Mawer, and Emily McCourt

 

 WHERE: Venue #2, The Fringe Cabaret Lounge

Dates and times:
August 15: 8:00 PM
August 17: 3:45 PM

August 20: 7:45 PM
August 22: 2:00 PM
August 24: 5:45 PM
August 25: 12:00 PM

Show runs approx. 55 minutes




 

Whackin' Jim McCrackin is Back!

Hee’s baaack! Our second, and most critically acclaimed show ever is returning for another round of action-packed craziness. Re-cut and remixed for a more frantic multimedia spectacle then ever before. Jim McCrackin, the hit-man with mother issues and an aversion to cats. He’s professional. He’s polite. He’ll break your fingers. Along with his unfortunate mistaken victim Steven, his arch nemesis/employer the stone-cold Victoria, and the drunken cop-on-the-edge Bradley, McCrackin will drive you off the cliff... of comedy, into a canyon of hilarity and into a fiery explosion of laughter.

"...You’ll be swept away by stellar special effects and multimedia like none you’ve ever seen at the Fringe. From start to finish, this show kept me on the edge of my seat. Don’t miss it.”
~ Jen Hoyer of SEE Magazine 5/5 stars

Please join Accidental Humour Co. this fringe at Happy Whackin' Jim McCrackin

Walterdale Alumni involved in this show include Neil Legrandeur (You Are Here), Kim Stadelmann (Hamlet, You are Here, Board of Directors), Willie Banfield (Lion in Winter), Brent Felzien (Cellar Doors, Secret Gardens), and Amanda Blair (Crimes of the Heart).

Show Times:
Friday, August 16 - 7pm
Saturday, August 17th - 9:30pm
Sunday, August 18th - 2pm
Thursday, August 22 - 9:30pm
Friday, August 23 - 7pm
Saturday, Aug 24 - 5pm

Breathe some Life into your Fringe Experience with LIFE AFTER BREATH

Magic Beans productions presents:

Life After Breath

Death. Grief. Laughter? Nona and Squee are filled with questions after their beloved Eulalia passes away. What happens after we die? Where do we go - if anywhere? In their desperation to recover what has been lost they take a leap of faith and journey into a Life After Breath.

Magic Beans Productions is a company created by Amy Chow and Neelam Chattoo. The company hopes to inspire whimsy in theatre for all, circling around themes of friendship and the journeys we experience together.  Magic Beans Productions is pleased to present their first work Life After Breath at the 2013 Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival.

Synopsis:
Nona and Squee struggle to repair their broken hearts and broken home after Eulalia dies. Tensions rise during their nighttime rituals when they find trying to move on is more difficult than they expect. In an attempt to cope, they seek solutions from The Big Book of Death and discover a magical CD-Rom that presents them with a way to visit the afterlife. Jumping on the chance to find out what happened to Eulalia, Nona and Squee explore the exquisite and excruciating in a crystal volcano, a hidden garden, and a majestic lake. Through their panic and desperation to find Eulalia, Nona and Squee discover they depend on their friendship now more than ever.

Life After Breath is a new work created by Edmontonian theatre artists Amy Chow (Burning Vision)and Neelam Chattoo with the directorial assistance of Nikki Shaffeeulah and stage managed by Kiidra Duhault. It explores grief at its essence and what we as humans want most after a loved one passes on. 

Venue 16, Block 1912 Café (10361 82 Ave), Second Floor.

Life After Breath is a 50 minute show running at the following dates and times
August 16 – 10:00PM
August 17 – 4:00PM and 10:00PM
August 18 – 6:30PM
August 19 – 6:30PM
August 21 – 6:30PM
August 22 – 8:15PM
August 23 – 8:15PM
August 24 – 2:15PM and 8:15PM
August 25 – 12:30PM

Tickets go on sale August 6th and are available online at fringetheatre.ca, through the Box Office at 780-409-1901 or on the Fringe site at designated box offices. Any unsold tickets will be available 30 minutes prior to the start of the show at Venue 16. Block 1912 Café is a licensed venue, however minors are permitted. Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@2MagicBeans).

Marry me a Little - A Sondheim Feast for the Ears!

Stage Parsley Productions present MARRY ME A LITTLE

at the Edmonton International Fringe

Using several unknown songs by the undisputed master of the contemporary Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim, it tells a charming and bittersweet tale of love, loneliness and survival as a modern single.

Starring Brett Bews and Kathleen Sera (Anything Goes)
Music by Bruce Shaw
Directed by David Newton
Choreography by Michelle Marusiak
Stage Managed by Andy Haggith
Set Designed by Maureen Matsson

Two single strangers, left alone in their studio apartments on a Saturday night, pass their time with sweetly secret, unshared fantasies, never knowing that they're just a floor away from each other and the end of their lonely dreams.

Originally conceived by director Norman Rene and playwright Craig Lucas (Prelude To A Kiss), this ingeniously-constructed “revusical” is told entirely through songs either written early in Sondheim’s career (including numbers from SATURDAY NIGHT) or cut from his ground-breaking Broadway musicals (A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE, COMPANY, FOLLIES and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC). A must for Sondheim aficionados, this smart, funny, sophisticated and moving evening is a fascinating look at "the songs that got away."

BYOV Sugar Foot Ballroom 10545 81 Avenue

Showtimes:
Friday Aug. 16 8:30 pm
Saturday Aug 17 3:30 pm
Sunday Aug 18 5:00 pm
Wednesday Aug 21 3:30 pm
Thursday Aug 22 3:30 pm
Friday Aug 23 7:00 pm
Saturday Aug 24 4:00 pm
Sunday Aug 25 6:45 pm

Saint Maggie Productions presents Duets at the Edmonton Fringe

DUETS – By Peter Quilter

ABOUT THE PLAY - Duets is comprised of four one-act plays. 
Act 1: Blind Date - Jonathan and Wendy are on a blind date and hoping to get it right this time even though they’ve never got it right before. 
Act 2: The Holiday - Shelley and Bobby have decided to holiday in Spain to finalize their divorce whilst drowning in cocktails. 
Act 3: Secretarial Skills - Barrie is not really interested in women but Janet sees that as no reason to stop trying. 
Act 4: The Bride-To-Be - Angela is marrying for the third time to the dismay of her brother Toby and amidst a barrage of bad omens and a bad dress. 

The play runs 1 ½ hours.  There will be no intermission.
 

SHOW TIMES – Venue #3 – The Walterdale Playhouse  
CAST  (In alphabetical order) 
Bobby & Toby - Justin Deveau (Dracula - upcoming, Summer and Smoke, The Weir, The Love of the Nightingale, Wyrd Sisters, reasons to be pretty, Much Ado About Nothing)
Shelley & Angela - Nicole Grainger (Dracula - upcoming)
Wendy & Janet - Liz Grierson
Jonathan & Barrie - Ian Horobin (Up Sh!# Creek - From Cradle to Stage 2010)

PRODUCTION TEAM 
Director - Maria Colonescu (Wyrd Sisters, Dracula - upcoming)
Producer - Nicole Grainger
Stage Manager - Anita Bourgeois (Sinbad)
Sound Designer - Darrell Portz (Dracula - upcoming, Wyrd Sisters, Mail Order Bride, Black Hearts in the Green Room; Sound D Deathtrap, Beautiful Thing, Hope is Dead, Poetry Unbound)
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Never Let the Crew See You Cry - A Fringe Wartime Adventure

An Albertan Love Affair With Planes

Northern Sabbatical Productions and MAA & PAA Theatre join forces to tell the story of the women who stepped into ‘male’ jobs at a hundred air bases across Canada during World War 2. Never Let the Crew See You Cry focuses on the stories of Ethel Wood, mother of playwright Linda Wood Edwards.  

Ethel lied about her age to get a job as a Flight Line Mechanic, and proved a natural at both the technical elements of the job and the psychological minefield of dealing with terrified student pilots from a hundred different cultures. Building on her mother’s outrageous tales, Wood Edwards has crafted vivid portraits of friendship, romance, and an emerging sense of what roles women can take on in a post-war society. 

This is MAA & PAA’s sixth play focused on Albertan history. Past productions have been collected for publication by Brindle and Glass, and last year’s production, Invisible Child, received the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for new drama. Linda Wood Edwards is a Sterling-nominated playwright whose acclaimed past productions, including Four in the Crib, Support Ho’s, True Grid and Spring Alibi have toured and been produced across North America.

Never Let the Crew See You Cry features Alex D. Mackie, Judy McFerran (Sea of Green, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Les Belles Soeurs - Walterdale) and Laura Raboud.  The production is directed by David Cheoros, with costumes by Geri Dittrich (Summer and Smoke, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Love of the Nightingale, The Lion in Winter, Wyrd Sisters, and many, many more - Walterdale).   

Never Let the Crew See You Cry will run during the Edmonton Fringe in Venue 14, the Strathcona Branch Edmonton Public Library (8331 – 104 Street). Performances are as follows:

Fri Aug 16 - 6:30pm
Sat Aug 17 - 12:15pm
Mon Aug 19 - 3:30pm
Tue Aug 20 - 2:15pm
Wed Aug 21 - 8:15pm
Fri Aug 23 - 6:45pm
Sat Aug 24 - 11:45am
Sun Aug 25 - 1:00pm

impurities presented by Cross Line Theatre at the Edmonton Fringe Festival

Cross Line Theatre presents Impurities by Natalia Knowlton, at the 2013 Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival.

impurities
What did you do when you were the tender age of 16?
Did your daddy take you to a purity ball where you promised him your virginity until you got married? Or did you attend a fabulous rainbow party where you wore bright coloured lipstick only to leave your stamp on a boy’s rainbow? Or were you a more traditional girl who stayed in, thinking of romantic ways to get your high school sweetheart to pop your cherry?
In the story of Impurities, three girls are pressured into having sex, not having sex, or simply just sticking to blow jobs. Whether they oblige or rebel against these conflicting messages, something is still missing in their sex lives. Impurities explores the consequences that arise when our society fetishizes the notion of virginity.

Written & Directed by Natalia Knowlton
Starring:
Terri Gingras as Kate
Kara Chamberlain  (Nine, The Threepenny Opera) as CeciliaJessica Watson as MiaNoori Gill as Actor 1Jemma Robinson (Nine) as Actor 2
Lisa Jones (Sea of Green) as Actor 3Thais Polo (Nine) as Actor 4
Stage managed & Assistant Directed by Lore Green
Set Design by Kara Chamberlain, Terri Gingras, Natalia Knowlton
Lighting Design by Kara Chamberlain
Costume Design by Terri Gingras
Sound Design by Natalia Knowlton
Choreography by Kara Chamberlain and Terri Gingras
Production Managed by Kara Chamberlain
Marketing Coordinator: Kara ChamberlainSocial Media Coordinator: Natalia Knowlton

Venue #5: King Edward School
8530-101 Street NW

August 16 @ 12:15 PM
August 18 @ 2:45 PM
August 19 @ 9:00 PM
August 21 @ 6:45 PM
August 22 @ 10:30 PM
August 23 @ 4:30 PM

PG-14: Parental Guidance for sexual and mature content and coarse language

Kilt Pins - At the Edmonton International Fringe

Our Other Day Job presents  Kilt Pins at the Edmonton International Fringe

In a Catholic high school, amidst low-income housing and poverty, a young woman struggles to find her sexual identity. In this sincere portrayal of high-school kids pitting the voice of God against the voice of their own bodies, Kilt Pins cheekily asks:

Is your kilt pin up or down?

Playwright: Catherine Hernandez
Director: Kieva Masse
Cast: Teryl Berg, Sarah Culkin (From Cradle to Stage 2013 - Exposure), Morgan Grau, Lauren Groves, Eric Smith (Village of Idiots),  Elizabeth Yu
Stage Manager: Tanner Wormald
Sound/Light Design: Luay Eljamal (Nine)
Dramaturg/Stage Combat: Jackson Longworth

Advisories: Awkward Topics, Sexual Content, Adult Language, Religious Content
Rating: Parental Guidance
Age Restriction:16+

10437 83 Avenue (Telus Building; Venue #9)

Showtimes:
Sunday August 18, 2013 2:15 PM
Tuesday August 20, 2013 6:30 PM
Wednesday August 21, 2013 12:00 PM
Thursday August 22, 2013 11:15 PM
Friday August 23, 2013 8:45 PM

 

 

 

From Cradle to Stage to the Edmonton International Fringe - Apocalypse, Saskatchewan

If you loved Apocalypse, Saskatchewan at the Walterdale Theatre's From Cradle to Stage: An Evening of One Acts in 2012, or you if missed it, you have another chance to catch it at the 2013 Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival!

Apocalypse, Saskatchewan, a comedy by Dion Huel, follows the adventures of Clifford, a semi-retired farmer, Bill, the town's former mayor, and Charlie, a World War II veteran, as well as Clifford's long-suffering daughter, Cassandra, who owns and runs the coffee shop where ...the men spend their days wondering why the town has gone downhill. After Charlie's house mysteriously blows up, the answer to these three retirees' complaints ends up staring them in the face. From there, they know they are their small Saskatchewan town's only hope against the impending zombie horde.

Show dates:

Saturday, August 17, 2:00 pm
Monday, August 19, 5:00 pm
Tuesday, August 20, 2:00 pm
Wednesday, August 21, 2:00 pm
Thursday, August 22, 2:00 pm
Friday, August 23, 2:00 pm
Saturday, August 24, 2:00 pm
Sunday, August 25, 2:00 pm

Venue #31: Filthy McNasty’s, 10511 82 Avenue

Runtime: 90 minutes

Featuring:
David Wolkowski (Sinbad, Selection) - Clifford
Bill Roberts (Misanthrope, Burning Vision, Mr. Twiddles) - Bill
Clyde Rigsby (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) - Charlie
Parazanda Valois: Cassandra

Playwright: Dion Huel
Director: Giorgia Severini
Stage Manager/Lighting Designer: Pierre Valois
Set Designer: Clyde Rigsby
Costume Designer: Yvonne Trethart
Sound Designer: Mandy Stewart

Port Authority and Or - Put these Walterdale Member's Shows on your Fringe Radar!

Every year, Walterdale is pleased to support it's members in their pursuits of artistic excellence at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival.  One of the ways we do this is sharing the news of their shows via this blog and in our newsletter.  

Here are two shows being presented by Forces of Chaos and Trunk Theatre which you might be interested in catching. 
 

Forces of Chaos presents the Canadian premiere of Conor McPherson’s Port Authority at the 2013 Edmonton International Fringe Festival from August 16^th-24^th, 2013.  A young man moves in with the girl her secretly loves, another man is hired for a job for which he is vastly under qualified and a pensioner receives a mysterious package in the mail.   The production is directed by Amy DeFelice (Swimming with Goldfish - Walterdale; Mojo Mickeybo - Fringe 2012) and stars Isaac Andrew (Take A Bite), Kieran O’Callaghan (The Weir, Lion in Winter - Walterdale; Four in the Crib - Fringe 2012) and Cody Porter (The Weir, Antony & Cleopatra, You are Here - Walterdale; Days of Wine and Roses - Trunk Theatre).  Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote “I found myself holding on to what these actors had to say like I was a 5-year old at bedtime being introduced to “The Arabian Nights.”  This play is presented by the Sterling nominated company that presented McPherson’s This Lime Tree Bower at the 2010 Fringe Festival.

 

In addition, Forces of Chaos is selling $ 10.00 buttons, as sign of membership to their (Sup)Port Authority fan club,  as part of their campaign to raise awareness about their production.  The buttons entitled the wearer to discounts at local merchants and the production.

 

Port Authority plays at Venue #8: Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (8426 Gateway Boulevard).  Tickets are available online (fta@fringetheatre.ca), by phone 780-409-1910, or at the onsite box offices.

Performances 

Friday, Aug 16^th 12:15pm

Tuesday, Aug 20^th 6:30pm

Wed., Aug 21^st 8:45pm

Thursday, Aug 22^nd 10:45pm

Friday, Aug 23^rd 4:00pm

Saturday, Aug 24^th 2:15pm

And there is Or...

Trunk Theatre presents the Alberta premiere of Liz Duffy Adams’ literary sex farce Or, at the 2013 Edmonton International Fringe Festival.  The play takes place during a tumultuous night in the life of Aphra Behn, poet, spy, and the first professional female playwright.   Aphra tries to finish her new play by its morning deadline between interruptions from her sudden new love, actress Nell Gwynne; her complicated royal love, King Charles II; and her dangerous ex-love, double agent William Scot.  Against a backdrop of a long-drawn out war and a counter-culture of free love, cross-dressing and youthful rebellion, 1669 looks a lot like 1969. 

 

Or, is directed by Amy DeFelice (Mojo Mickybo; Swimming with Goldfish - Walterdale) and stars Clarice Eckford (Doubt), Kristi Gunther-Hansen (Pith!) and Garett Ross (Jack Goes Boating).  The show plays at Stage 8: Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (8426 Gateway Boulevard).  Trunk Theatre’s previous Fringe productions include the Sterling nominated Dying City, Ashes to Ashes, A Kind of Alaska and Emphysema: A Love Story.   Or, premiered Off-Broadway in 2009.   Liz Duffy Adams has an MFA in Playwriting from Yale and is the winner of the Lillian Hellman Award for Playwriting.

 

Or, plays at Venue #8: Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (8426 Gateway Boulevard).  Tickets are available online (fta@fringetheatre.ca),  by phone 780-409-1910, or at the onsite box offices.

Sat. August 17^th 8:30pm

Sun. August 18^th 6:45pm
Tues. August 20^th 2:00pm
Thu. August 22^nd 4:15pm
Fri. August 23^rd 10:30pm
Sun. August 25^th 12:15pm