Vancouver Fringe and Indigenized Indigenous Theatre present:

Rocko and Nakota: Tales From the Land
September 18, 2019
Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC
Running time: 50 minutes

Meet Nakota. An anxious young boy who is trying to write the greatest story ever. One day, Grandpa Rocko comes to visit him in the hospital. Next thing Nakota knows, he is whisked away into a world of stories that are right below his feet. Within the land.

This show explores the interplay between stories of the present against the long forgotten stories of the past. After a cross-Canada Fringe tour and an Edmonton school tour, Anishinaabe playwright/storyteller Josh Languedoc is excited to bring Rocko and Nakota back to the Vancouver Fringe for one more performance.

Cast and Team:
Writer/Performer: Josh Languedoc
Director: Barry Bilinsky
Stage Manager: Jordan Campion
Technical Director: Randall Fraser
Designer: Ami Farrow
Producer: Mark Henderson

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

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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):
Regular: $25

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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

Ticket prices (including all taxes and fees):
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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

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

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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

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

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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):
Regular: $25

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