Vancouver Fringe and Devon More Music present:

Flute Loops
September 19, 2019
Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC
Running time: 60 minutes

The Flute Loops—pop music's latest viral sensation—are about to the hit the stage! Meanwhile, the quantum physic PhD student working the "merch table" is trying to warp space-time, while under the influence—of Saint Stephen Hawking. With the muses of classical music and theoretical math at her side, can she calculate the suspension of the 4th dimension—or Thomas' attention?

A fish out of water making sound waves faces off with cosmic flute rock show-stopping solos. Quirks, quarks, strangeness, charm, and the substance of sound collide in a subatomic rock opera where anything that can happen does.

With Devon More "showcasing a polymath's proclivity for playing multiple instruments" and "dope-ass beats" (★★★★ —CBC, 2018), "this is truly a one-of-a-kind show" (★★★★ —Winnipeg Free Press, 2018).

Cast and Team:
Devon More – Creator/Performer

Ticket prices (including all taxes and fees):
Regular: $25

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Vancouver Fringe and Weeping Spoon Productions present:

The Ballad of Frank Allen
September 19, 2019
Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC
Running time: 55 minutes

After making its world debut at Fringe World 2016 and two years successfully touring Australia and Canada, the award-winning show finally makes its Vancouver return! A sci-fi buddy-comedy about a man who lives in another man’s beard from the bizarre mind of Festival-favourite Shane Adamczak (Trampoline, Zack Adams, Canadian Just for Laughs Award Winner, and producer of other 5-star Fringe hits This Is Not A Love Song and Vicious Circles). 

Cast:
Shane Adamczak and Al Lafrance

Ticket prices (including all taxes and fees):
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Old-ish
GoodSide Productions
Vancouver, Canada
Playwright: Susan Freedman
susanfreedman.ca

Old-ish won the Pick of the Fringe Award at the 2018 Nanaimo Fringe. It's about aging and death only WAY funnier! Susan’s fifth one-woman comedy travels the hilarious, rocky road from denial to grudging acceptance of getting older. Her most recent Vancouver hit, Spilling Family Secrets garnered rave reviews at Fringe Festivals across Canada.

“Freedman sparkles … instantly likeable ... you don’t need to be old to appreciate Old-ish.” —Winnipeg Free Press

Reviews from previous shows:
“Pithy and hilarious observations about getting older.” —the Georgia Straight 
****1/2 “Riveting storyteller.” —Edmonton Sun
 
Funny / Intimate / 14+ / 45 minutes
Low vision

Pretty Beast
Kazu Kusano
Los Angeles, USA
Playwright: Kazu Kusano
kazukusano.com

“Shut up, you’re a girl!” Tired of hearing that? #MeToo. Growing up in a dysfunctional family in Japan, Kazu finds humour as a survival tool, but a girl being funny is a problem. Nevertheless, she persists. You’ll laugh and cry. 

Won Best of Fest at Crazy Woke Asians Solo Performance Festival in L.A. Kazu is an award winning Japanese stand-up comedian.

Funny / Intense / Intimate / Multicultural / 18+ / Coarse Language / Strobe Lights / 60 minutes

This show is created by an underrepresented Artist.

Written and performed by an Asian woman
Low vision

My Name is SUMIKO
New(to)Town Collective
Vancouver, Canada
Playwright: June Fukumura
newtotowncollective.com/sumiko

June Fukumura is a Japanese-Canadian theatre maker based in Vancouver. By day she is a polite, well-mannered theatre artist and by night she is her dark humoured, hyper kawaii, raunchy clown alter-ego, Sumiko. Sumiko dices, slices, and blends up Japanese stereotypes and serves up a zany, East-meets-West comedy about life, death, and love.

Funny / Weird / Naughty / Multicultural / 18+ / Coarse Language / Violent Content / Sexual Content / 60 minutes
Deaf friendly

This show is created by an underrepresented Artist.

Created and performed by second generation Nikkei (Japanese-Canadian) clown

Larry
Candy Bones Theatre
Vancouver, Canada
Playwright: Candice Roberts
candy-bones.com

Can a man get in touch with his femininity without losing his balls? 

It’s your ol’ pal Larry. He’s “no idiom,” and he’ll be the first to tell you that he’s handier than a pocket on the back of a shirt. Bold, smart, and f@#king funny, it turns out that Larry’s internal trip is more terrifying than he ever thought was possible.

“This piece of theatre/comedy/stand-up/performance/dance called Larry, brought tears to my eyes. I was laughing and recognizing and cringing and in awe of this amazing performer, Candice Roberts. It is not to be missed.” —Annette Loiselle, Festival Director of SkirtsAfire Festival

Funny / Weird / Poetic / 18+ / Coarse Language / Strobe Lights / Nudity / 60 minutes

Tomatoes Tried to Kill Me but Banjos Saved My Life
Quivering Dendrites
Vancouver, Canada
Playwright: Keith Alessi
tomatoestriedtokillme.com

Triple award winner at the 2019 NYC Frigid Fringe. An inspirational true story of life, challenges, battles, and triumph. What choices do you make when confronted with life’s challenges? Will pursuit of a passion take you to a place you never imagined?

“A gem in New York City’s off-off Broadway scene.” —The Paper/FUpaper Blog, NYC
“Raw, authentic and beautiful.” —Theatre Addicts, Vancouver 
“An intimate and affecting show.” —Vancouver Presents 

Musical / Warm and Fuzzy / Intimate / All Ages / 60 minutes

Low vision

Guards at the Taj
SACHA (Vancouver)
Burnaby, Canada

Playwright: Rajiv Joseph

A flourishing empire, an architectural marvel, one of the cruelest acts in (perhaps fabricated) history, intense drama, and at the centre of it all... a weird bromance? 

Adele Noronha and Andeep Kalirai star in playwright Rajiv Joseph’s sharply written story of two Imperial Guards who stand on duty at the famed Taj Mahal in India in 1648.

“Joseph writes sly, funny dialogue laced with jolts of lyricism, and the initial exchanges between the two guards are highly captivating, even if some of the play’s verbal detours are more bewitching than enlightening.” —Hollywood Reporter

Weird / Intense / Poetic / Multicultural 14+ / Coarse Language / Violent Content / 90 minutes
 
This show is created by an underrepresented Artist.

Directed and Performed by South Asian Artists

Vancouver Fringe and Diwali in BC present:

Bombay Black
November 1-3, 2019
York Theatre, 639 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC
Running time: 115 minutes including a 15 minute intermission

Why would a blind man go to see an exotic dancer? Poetic, mythic, and brave, Indo-Canadian Anosh Irani’s multiple Dora Award-winning and Canadian Governor General nominated play Bombay Black is a searing play set in the bitter reality of India. Funny, violent, humane, and directed by Mumbai-born, Jessie Richardson Theatre Award and Vancouver Fringe Festival Award winning producer, Rohit Chokhani. Bombay Black took the Vancouver Fringe by storm in 2017 and had a sold out run. After strong critical reviews it was voted amongst the top 20 shows on Vancouver stages by the Georgia Straight and was also awarded the Public Market Pick of the Fringe Award.  It was remounted for a three-city wide four-week regional run in the province of BC in 2018.
 
The lives of an exotic dancer and her embittered mother are altered when a blind stranger visits them. Set in present-day India, Bombay Black is a powerful story of story of Apsara, who lives in Bombay with her mother, making a living by selling exotic dances to wealthy men. When a blind man named Kamal arrives for an appointment, the complex and brutal past of the three characters slowly rises to the surface. Featuring a remarkable poetic text, bold theatrical imagery, a combination of contemporary Bombay bar dancing, and exaggerated lighting complemented with an evocative score, Bombay Black is challenging work by one of Canada’s leading playwriting voices.

Warnings: Funny / Poetic / Multicultural /  14+ / Coarse Language / Sexual Content / Violent Content / Smoke Fog


Cast and Team:
Director and Producer: Rohit Chokhani
In partnership with Diwali in BC

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BOMBAY BLACK premiered in January 2006 at the Theatre Centre, Toronto. It was commissioned and developed by Nightswimming Theatre and produced by Cahoots Theatre Projects. It was workshopped and given a public reading at On the Verge, 2005 (National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts, Ottawa). The playwright is extremely grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des Arts du Canada for generous support. BOMBAY BLACK is staged by arrangement with Pam Winter, Gary Goddard Agency.

BOMBAY BLACK is independently produced by Rohit Chokhani. The production team is grateful to the support from the BC Arts Council and the Canada Counctil for the Arts for the development of this project in 2018. We are also extremely grateful for the support we have received from our 2018 presenters, namely, Firehall Arts Centre, Evergreen Cultural Centre, TheatreOne and Diwali in BC.  We would also like to thank the Dramatic Works program at the Vancouver Fringe Festival in 2017 and Mentor Sherry Yoon and The Cultch for their support during the inception phase of development of this work initially in 2017 and the financial and emotional support  of the Chokhani family to make this happen. 

Image features Arshdeep Purba as Apsara from the 2018 Production. 2019 production will feature a new cast member. Photo by Raymond Kam.

Vancouver Fringe and TJ Dawe present:

Roller Coaster
November 13-15, 2019
Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC

Jessie Award winning Fringe vet and solo show meister TJ Dawe (Burn Job, Medicine, Marathon, The Slipknot) (he’s been touring since 1994) returns with a monologue about why we go to war, who our real gods are, the bizarre phenomenon of Donald Trump’s presidency, and the end of the world.

Cast and Team:
TJ Dawe

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Vancouver Fringe and Paul Strickland Presents present:

Ain't True & Uncle False
March 26-28, 2020
The Nest, 1398 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC

Step Right Up! Mark Twain meets Tim Burton in this one-man tall-tale comedy (with songs!)

Best of Fest winner at the Calgary Fringe and Cincinnati Fringe.

“This one will tickle your imagination while it warms your heart.” —Kathleen Oliver, the Georgia Straight
“One of the finest and most original shows you’ll ever see.” —Colin Thomas, Green Room
***** —Winnipeg Free Press, 2015
***** —Vue Magazine, Edmonton 2014
“A new storytelling presence instantly worthy of a place on the top shelf.” —Edmonton Journal
“Through Strickland’s pitch perfect storytelling and verbal acrobatics … we’re transported to a magical place where common sense may be in short supply, but wisdom abounds.” —CBC


Cast and Team:
Directed by Erika Kate MacDonald
Written and Performed by Paul Strickland

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Vancouver Fringe and Monster Theatre present:

Theatre Under the Gun
April 21, 2020
Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC

It’s deadline driven, insomnia fuelled creation at its best.

Theatre Under the Gun, the 48-hour play creation competition is back! Six Vancouver theatre companies receive an inspiration package, and have only 48 hours to race against the clock and create an original piece of theatre! Hosted by Monster Theatre and co-presented by the Vancouver Fringe, Theatre Under the Gun is one of the most epic, exciting, surprising, and electric theatre events of the season.

Applications for theatre companies and collectives open September 2019!


Ticket prices (including all taxes and fees):
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