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A Bard Buffet is an all-you-can-eat feast of some of Shakespeare’s best speeches – Titania, Juliet, Richard III, Hamlet, Edmund, Goneril and 18 others, selected from a menu by the unruly Elizabethan mob that is the audience. Anecdotes from four years with Maggie Smith and two seasons in Peter Ustinov’s King Lear at Stratford provide some sauce and spice to the fare. Bon appétit!
Revue Stage
In her quest for partnership, Samantha Cohen's questionable dating choices include a guy named Mansplain, a pimp and a murderer. She and her best friend, Kali, are New-Age-type artists living in East Van. While they create a musical comedy about dating, Sam's blurry boundaries produce a hotbed of disaster. Alarmed and fed up, Kali resorts to an extreme measure to save her friend. Playwright: Marn Norwich Director: Ariel Martz-Oberlander Music: Itamar Erez Starring Megan Phillips
Picnic Pavilion
What can ancient Rome tell us about ourselves? In A PAIR OF SHOES, Professor Ted Blake uses Zoom to lead his recalcitrant class through the first chapters of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. If ancient Romans had it so good, why did it all go so bad? Should we compare rulers past and present? Can history teach us how to make better choices, or is it just a bloody catalogue of human folly, anarchy and violence?
Fringe Online
Less than a month after the Fringe, I'll turn seventy -- can I be the oldest artist here? I've been around. I'm an actor, a teacher, a writer, a martial artist -- a loving partner and a dad -- a good Jewish boy who grew up without a dad of his own, and who has spent most of his life trying to fathom what it is to be a gentleman -- both gentle and a man. In A SIDE OF RICE I tell some of the pivotal stories, the turning points, that have brought me to this sweetest time of my life.
Performance Works
Celebrate the 101st anniversary of Prohibition with flappers, gin fizz and a speakeasy cabaret. From secret cellars and doctor-prescribed alcohol to a teetotaller attacking saloons with a hatchet... if it happened during Prohibition, there's a song about it! Featuring 1920s hits: 'The Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Never Touch Mine,' 'Where do They Go (When They Row Row Row)' and 'Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar'. Starring Melanie Gall from ★★★★★ shows Piaf and Brel & Ingénue.
Performance Works
BLINDSIDE is an eye-opening multi-award-winning comedy about resilience, empathy, and self-acceptance. In a feat of riveting comedy, one-eyed cancer survivor and MOTH storytelling champion, Stéphanie Morin-Robert, recounts her life as a feisty 7-year-old who wields her glass-eye as a weapon. With the help of her cat, a pair of sunglasses, and an undesirable superpower, she soon discovers that she has what it takes to face her new school and come to terms with her disability.
Fringe Online
It's a beautiful day for baseball, sports fans... too bad we won't be seeing much of the game. Though the slams may be grand and the fly-balls may be poppin', this irreverent, quick-witted comedy show from Vancouver sketch duo Cake Walk is far more interested in the action that happens in between the innings and behind the scenes, whether it's going down in the commentary booth or the nosebleed seats. Finally, a stadium experience, with none of the sports.
Performance Works
Following a sudden death in his family, Rob must come to terms with his own identity and the actions that inform his role as a son, partner and friend. He returns to group therapy-- after a brief hiatus -- on the heels of a fractured realization of self. As the members of Group work together, they find common ground in their experiences with loss, pain and addictions. Cooking for Grief explores familial relationships, addictions, and what it means to accept healing into one's life. Cooking for Grief will be ASL interpeted on September 18 at 2pm.
Picnic Pavilion
From the heart, soul and mind of Dan Drnach... Cross Country is at its core a concept album. We call it a "Self-Help Concert Performance" because there will be actors bringing our story's characters to life. We are bringing our unique hybrid concert to you!
Fringe Online
Dear Donald/Dear Hillary (Their Secret Correspondence) takes liberties, for laughs, with the biographies of the political rivals. What if they've known each other since the age of 8, assigned to be pen pals as second-graders? In their undiscovered personal letters spanning half a century, up to November 2020, we see their awkward friendship wax and wane in letters that borrow liberally (not conservatively) from Trump and Clinton's actual public dialogue. You might be surprised who gets the last word.
Fringe Online
EVERYBODY KNOWS is a moody and evocative Performance Art show set to nine Leonard Cohen cover songs. In this semi-autobiographical, one-Woman musical, Rita Sheena creates a spiraling narrative using contemporary dance, post-modern quirk, and the haunting melodies of First Aid Kit. This is the latest work from her highly acclaimed Come Emote With Me theatre series, and Rita is thrilled to debut EVERYBODY KNOWS at the 2021 Vancouver Fringe Festival.
Revue Stage
Why would you change the name you've been answering to your whole life? How do you find a new one? Why would anyone go to the trouble? Artist and performer Jai Djwa brings you on his journey with friends in HI MY NAME IS JAI. Learn the secret power of changing your name in this funny and poignant show, directed by Raugi Yu.
Performance Works
Hamlet The Tragic Dane takes on Othello's bane Iago in a battle of soliloquies within a rented double-book'd rehearsal space. A folio of metered verse and blood besides doth make for cracking spectacle, so come anon! Mothers, brothers, star-cross'd lovers, all are welcome!
Revue Stage
In an absurdist world of philosophy, Sheela joins three great thinkers from the past for a spirited game of mahjong. As they play, her energy conjures Joseph Beuys as a mythological hare who interjects cultural incantations while the players contemplate immanent & designative language, evolution, myth and reality. Physical chair-play creates an escalating rhythm as tensions build, and the hare inspires Sheela into action. She pushes back against their male aggression, and wins the real game.
Fringe Online
Jilted bride Spencer marks each year of her would-be wedding date in her apartment binge-watching period piece movies wearing her $5000 wedding dress. When her neechies Carm, Linda and Maggie convince her to go out for a weekend of dancing, chaos ensues. Spencer's ex-fiance appears at the dance club and an arrow is shot in his direction. Probable cause lands the neechies in jail for questioning. This light-hearted comedy examines the enduring power of love and the bonds of Indigenous sisterhood.
Fringe Online
As a boy on Cape Breton Island, Frank Curtis loses his arm in a hunting accident. He recovers to become the undisputed champion of world armwrestling . Frank knows fame, admiration and riches. But the crowds drift away and glory ends. Frank ends up as a circus sideshow before wastage, homelessness and imprisonment almost ruin his life.
Fringe Online
A cinematic film adaptation of an original play written by local Vancouver theatre artist and filmmaker Beau Han Bridge. Starring local performers Maria Yanagisawa and Roni Marcelo -- PERSEPHONE MARA is a mid-length theatre film that centres on two adolescents who decide to escape from the world around them, by locking themselves away in an old projector room at the Cinemathèque movie theatre.
Fringe Online
PLANET PHUCKETT!!, a comedic clown play about the threat of Global-warming driven catastrophe complete with puppets, balloons and science. Doctor James Light will guide you through the information in a sardonic way. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you might cry some more .
Fringe Online
Set in the Simulation Centre; the go-to place to have a meaningful relationship, Practice Round introduces us to Jason and Morgan, two young adults looking for something more who enter the simulation with competing energies, lively grievances, and opposing values. With sessions only lasting an hour, the unlikely pair are set on an accelerated path to discover who they are and what they want - leaving us to wonder what is real, what is manufactured, and when does that matter?
Revue Stage
A new digital work from Brendan McLeod, the creator of the Van Fringe Fest hit "Brain" (2015 Pick of the Fringe), and his award-winning music group The Fugitives. A vivid, kinetic ride through history, as well as an intimate, personal examination of our connection to the past, Ridge is a visceral work that passionately argues against the exploitation of young lives.
Fringe Online
'Enter into a wacky world of sea monsters in high heels and angry mobs with tiny pitchforks' --InDaily. WINNER Best Theatre, Adelaide Fringe, 2021. ***** -The Star Phoenix. When Grumms transforms into a squid monster (think Creature from the Black Lagoon meets The Muppets ), they must hide their secret identity and disguise as a "normal human woman". Stunning video projections, puppetry and physical comedy combine in this absurd exploration of gender and growing up "normal".
Revue Stage
Truth Or Dare is about a man who finds himself lost in a new and solitary world where he falls into a conversation with a disembodied voice. As he struggles to understand the self imposed isolation he is in, the voice presents him with an opportunity to escape. Truth Or Dare will be ASL interpeted on September 18 at 7:30pm.
Picnic Pavilion
What does it mean for art if an artist's consciousness carries on after death? In "The Consciousness," Reece - a struggling music composition student - tries to extract and then plagiarize a symphony from the digitized consciousness of Theo Price, a dead and (mostly) forgotten composer. But the composer's creative prowess has not thrived in the afterlife, forcing Reece to reconstruct Theo's memories.
Fringe Online
The lives and times of everything that ever has or ever will exist are written in the Giant Book of Destiny. Through the inattention of a slightly distracted fact checker, the backup copy has been stolen! Space Dick Ace Galaksi has 24 hours to locate it before Destiny itself is REWRITTEN. The action plays out in a 1930s style recording session with live(ish) foley - accentuated with spaced out illustrations - because when a book's this big, it demands pictures!
Fringe Online
"Like Charlie Chaplin on Acid" Orlando Weekly's Best Visual Artist Nominee Sumner Mormeneo is proud to present The Infinite Conversation. This surreal production combines pantomime, projection mapping, and larger than life moving props. The story centers around The Mover as he begins unpacking in a new space. As objects begin to animate and play with his head, he finds himself falling deeper into the world of his subconscious.
Fringe Online
Passenger Seat is a hybrid theatre-concert. Written and sung and choreographed and devised and seen and felt and heard and erased and re-written by Arthi Chandra, Howard Dai, Isabella Halladay, Hannah Meyers, Thule Van Den Dam, and Montserrat Videla-Samper. This piece started out as a capsule of Arthi being queer and 17, and has shifted into a semi-rock-pop series of songs and stories that pay homage to feeling feelings. Aesthetic: Pink, blue, purple, glitter, sweat, tears, other angsty things.
Performance Works
"Come away with me." You hesitate... But who doesn't want to run away with the circus? You escape to a big top lost outside of time, an ephemeral spectacle that springs up every night at dusk in an explosion of music and glitter, only to disappear again as sunbeams crawl over the morning horizon. Audience members will follow that perpetual boy to meet scintillating mermaids, beautiful fairies, and the hopeful Wendy, deciding as she does whether to stay in Neverland... or to fly away home.
Alder Bay Dock
Addison is starting grade three. His only friend is a taxidermy flamingo. Can this hapless child survive on a playground full of divas, bullies, and toxic masculinity? An object theatre comedy about one queer child's search for connection.
Fringe Online
Vancouver Fringe Closing Night: Remixed and Remastered. To celebrate the return of The Vancouver Fringe Festival during these times of constant change and uncertainty, we will close off this year's festivities with a fresh new concept that combines...constant change and uncertainty! Featuring music, dance, theatre, comedy and a whole lot of improvisation, Vancouver Fringe: Remixed and Remastered will showcase selected standout acts from this year's Fringe, inviting performers to collaborate on three minute improvised summaries of their act with Hip Hop instrumentalist Sam Chimes AKA @OneChimes, host Omari Newton AKA @OmariAkilNewton and dancers from prolific Vancouver dance crew "Immigrant Lessons" @ImmigrantLessons. This closing night celebration will also feature prizes, surprises, booze and much more.
Performance Works
This original one-act play is set in Ebeneezer Scrooge's bedroom. Things seem familiar as the ghost of Jacob Marley disturbs Scrooge's slumber... but all is not as it appears. Fans of the Dickens classics will enjoy the references and verbal gymnastics of the couple who play the title characters. By
Fringe Online
Wings Over Water is an original diasporic bird play set in the liminal space of the ocean where Baby Bird meets 7 birds through phases of growth and cycle breaking: Grandmother Bird, Patriarchy Bird, Anarchy Bird, Blood Bird, Party Bird and Dream Bird. Join us through the intimate and sensory worlds of poetry, original live music created on the loop pedal, somatic movement and shadow puppetry to experience a work of innovative theatre like none other. Will Baby Bird find their way home?
Picnic Pavilion
In a moment outside time and space, two voices dive deep into a delicate and sensory multimedia experience. And ancient goddess and a young woman explore healing and justice after displacement from the body and land. Featuring Jewish ritual, this show offers something ancestrally rich and beyond words.
Fringe Online
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A Bard Buffet is an all-you-can-eat feast of some of Shakespeare’s best speeches – Titania, Juliet, Richard III, Hamlet, Edmund, Goneril and 18 others, selected from a menu by the unruly Elizabethan mob that is the audience. Anecdotes from four years with Maggie Smith and two seasons in Peter Ustinov’s King Lear at Stratford provide some sauce and spice to the fare. Bon appétit!
Revue Stage
In her quest for partnership, Samantha Cohen's questionable dating choices include a guy named Mansplain, a pimp and a murderer. She and her best friend, Kali, are New-Age-type artists living in East Van. While they create a musical comedy about dating, Sam's blurry boundaries produce a hotbed of disaster. Alarmed and fed up, Kali resorts to an extreme measure to save her friend. Playwright: Marn Norwich Director: Ariel Martz-Oberlander Music: Itamar Erez Starring Megan Phillips
Picnic Pavilion
What can ancient Rome tell us about ourselves? In A PAIR OF SHOES, Professor Ted Blake uses Zoom to lead his recalcitrant class through the first chapters of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. If ancient Romans had it so good, why did it all go so bad? Should we compare rulers past and present? Can history teach us how to make better choices, or is it just a bloody catalogue of human folly, anarchy and violence?
Fringe Online
Less than a month after the Fringe, I'll turn seventy -- can I be the oldest artist here? I've been around. I'm an actor, a teacher, a writer, a martial artist -- a loving partner and a dad -- a good Jewish boy who grew up without a dad of his own, and who has spent most of his life trying to fathom what it is to be a gentleman -- both gentle and a man. In A SIDE OF RICE I tell some of the pivotal stories, the turning points, that have brought me to this sweetest time of my life.
Performance Works
Celebrate the 101st anniversary of Prohibition with flappers, gin fizz and a speakeasy cabaret. From secret cellars and doctor-prescribed alcohol to a teetotaller attacking saloons with a hatchet... if it happened during Prohibition, there's a song about it! Featuring 1920s hits: 'The Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Never Touch Mine,' 'Where do They Go (When They Row Row Row)' and 'Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar'. Starring Melanie Gall from ★★★★★ shows Piaf and Brel & Ingénue.
Performance Works
BLINDSIDE is an eye-opening multi-award-winning comedy about resilience, empathy, and self-acceptance. In a feat of riveting comedy, one-eyed cancer survivor and MOTH storytelling champion, Stéphanie Morin-Robert, recounts her life as a feisty 7-year-old who wields her glass-eye as a weapon. With the help of her cat, a pair of sunglasses, and an undesirable superpower, she soon discovers that she has what it takes to face her new school and come to terms with her disability.
Fringe Online
It's a beautiful day for baseball, sports fans... too bad we won't be seeing much of the game. Though the slams may be grand and the fly-balls may be poppin', this irreverent, quick-witted comedy show from Vancouver sketch duo Cake Walk is far more interested in the action that happens in between the innings and behind the scenes, whether it's going down in the commentary booth or the nosebleed seats. Finally, a stadium experience, with none of the sports.
Performance Works
Following a sudden death in his family, Rob must come to terms with his own identity and the actions that inform his role as a son, partner and friend. He returns to group therapy-- after a brief hiatus -- on the heels of a fractured realization of self. As the members of Group work together, they find common ground in their experiences with loss, pain and addictions. Cooking for Grief explores familial relationships, addictions, and what it means to accept healing into one's life. Cooking for Grief will be ASL interpeted on September 18 at 2pm.
Picnic Pavilion
From the heart, soul and mind of Dan Drnach... Cross Country is at its core a concept album. We call it a "Self-Help Concert Performance" because there will be actors bringing our story's characters to life. We are bringing our unique hybrid concert to you!
Fringe Online
Dear Donald/Dear Hillary (Their Secret Correspondence) takes liberties, for laughs, with the biographies of the political rivals. What if they've known each other since the age of 8, assigned to be pen pals as second-graders? In their undiscovered personal letters spanning half a century, up to November 2020, we see their awkward friendship wax and wane in letters that borrow liberally (not conservatively) from Trump and Clinton's actual public dialogue. You might be surprised who gets the last word.
Fringe Online
EVERYBODY KNOWS is a moody and evocative Performance Art show set to nine Leonard Cohen cover songs. In this semi-autobiographical, one-Woman musical, Rita Sheena creates a spiraling narrative using contemporary dance, post-modern quirk, and the haunting melodies of First Aid Kit. This is the latest work from her highly acclaimed Come Emote With Me theatre series, and Rita is thrilled to debut EVERYBODY KNOWS at the 2021 Vancouver Fringe Festival.
Revue Stage
Why would you change the name you've been answering to your whole life? How do you find a new one? Why would anyone go to the trouble? Artist and performer Jai Djwa brings you on his journey with friends in HI MY NAME IS JAI. Learn the secret power of changing your name in this funny and poignant show, directed by Raugi Yu.
Performance Works
Hamlet The Tragic Dane takes on Othello's bane Iago in a battle of soliloquies within a rented double-book'd rehearsal space. A folio of metered verse and blood besides doth make for cracking spectacle, so come anon! Mothers, brothers, star-cross'd lovers, all are welcome!
Revue Stage
In an absurdist world of philosophy, Sheela joins three great thinkers from the past for a spirited game of mahjong. As they play, her energy conjures Joseph Beuys as a mythological hare who interjects cultural incantations while the players contemplate immanent & designative language, evolution, myth and reality. Physical chair-play creates an escalating rhythm as tensions build, and the hare inspires Sheela into action. She pushes back against their male aggression, and wins the real game.
Fringe Online
Jilted bride Spencer marks each year of her would-be wedding date in her apartment binge-watching period piece movies wearing her $5000 wedding dress. When her neechies Carm, Linda and Maggie convince her to go out for a weekend of dancing, chaos ensues. Spencer's ex-fiance appears at the dance club and an arrow is shot in his direction. Probable cause lands the neechies in jail for questioning. This light-hearted comedy examines the enduring power of love and the bonds of Indigenous sisterhood.
Fringe Online
As a boy on Cape Breton Island, Frank Curtis loses his arm in a hunting accident. He recovers to become the undisputed champion of world armwrestling . Frank knows fame, admiration and riches. But the crowds drift away and glory ends. Frank ends up as a circus sideshow before wastage, homelessness and imprisonment almost ruin his life.
Fringe Online
A cinematic film adaptation of an original play written by local Vancouver theatre artist and filmmaker Beau Han Bridge. Starring local performers Maria Yanagisawa and Roni Marcelo -- PERSEPHONE MARA is a mid-length theatre film that centres on two adolescents who decide to escape from the world around them, by locking themselves away in an old projector room at the Cinemathèque movie theatre.
Fringe Online
PLANET PHUCKETT!!, a comedic clown play about the threat of Global-warming driven catastrophe complete with puppets, balloons and science. Doctor James Light will guide you through the information in a sardonic way. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you might cry some more .
Fringe Online
Set in the Simulation Centre; the go-to place to have a meaningful relationship, Practice Round introduces us to Jason and Morgan, two young adults looking for something more who enter the simulation with competing energies, lively grievances, and opposing values. With sessions only lasting an hour, the unlikely pair are set on an accelerated path to discover who they are and what they want - leaving us to wonder what is real, what is manufactured, and when does that matter?
Revue Stage
A new digital work from Brendan McLeod, the creator of the Van Fringe Fest hit "Brain" (2015 Pick of the Fringe), and his award-winning music group The Fugitives. A vivid, kinetic ride through history, as well as an intimate, personal examination of our connection to the past, Ridge is a visceral work that passionately argues against the exploitation of young lives.
Fringe Online
'Enter into a wacky world of sea monsters in high heels and angry mobs with tiny pitchforks' --InDaily. WINNER Best Theatre, Adelaide Fringe, 2021. ***** -The Star Phoenix. When Grumms transforms into a squid monster (think Creature from the Black Lagoon meets The Muppets ), they must hide their secret identity and disguise as a "normal human woman". Stunning video projections, puppetry and physical comedy combine in this absurd exploration of gender and growing up "normal".
Revue Stage
Truth Or Dare is about a man who finds himself lost in a new and solitary world where he falls into a conversation with a disembodied voice. As he struggles to understand the self imposed isolation he is in, the voice presents him with an opportunity to escape. Truth Or Dare will be ASL interpeted on September 18 at 7:30pm.
Picnic Pavilion
What does it mean for art if an artist's consciousness carries on after death? In "The Consciousness," Reece - a struggling music composition student - tries to extract and then plagiarize a symphony from the digitized consciousness of Theo Price, a dead and (mostly) forgotten composer. But the composer's creative prowess has not thrived in the afterlife, forcing Reece to reconstruct Theo's memories.
Fringe Online
The lives and times of everything that ever has or ever will exist are written in the Giant Book of Destiny. Through the inattention of a slightly distracted fact checker, the backup copy has been stolen! Space Dick Ace Galaksi has 24 hours to locate it before Destiny itself is REWRITTEN. The action plays out in a 1930s style recording session with live(ish) foley - accentuated with spaced out illustrations - because when a book's this big, it demands pictures!
Fringe Online
"Like Charlie Chaplin on Acid" Orlando Weekly's Best Visual Artist Nominee Sumner Mormeneo is proud to present The Infinite Conversation. This surreal production combines pantomime, projection mapping, and larger than life moving props. The story centers around The Mover as he begins unpacking in a new space. As objects begin to animate and play with his head, he finds himself falling deeper into the world of his subconscious.
Fringe Online
Passenger Seat is a hybrid theatre-concert. Written and sung and choreographed and devised and seen and felt and heard and erased and re-written by Arthi Chandra, Howard Dai, Isabella Halladay, Hannah Meyers, Thule Van Den Dam, and Montserrat Videla-Samper. This piece started out as a capsule of Arthi being queer and 17, and has shifted into a semi-rock-pop series of songs and stories that pay homage to feeling feelings. Aesthetic: Pink, blue, purple, glitter, sweat, tears, other angsty things.
Performance Works
"Come away with me." You hesitate... But who doesn't want to run away with the circus? You escape to a big top lost outside of time, an ephemeral spectacle that springs up every night at dusk in an explosion of music and glitter, only to disappear again as sunbeams crawl over the morning horizon. Audience members will follow that perpetual boy to meet scintillating mermaids, beautiful fairies, and the hopeful Wendy, deciding as she does whether to stay in Neverland... or to fly away home.
Alder Bay Dock
Addison is starting grade three. His only friend is a taxidermy flamingo. Can this hapless child survive on a playground full of divas, bullies, and toxic masculinity? An object theatre comedy about one queer child's search for connection.
Fringe Online
Vancouver Fringe Closing Night: Remixed and Remastered. To celebrate the return of The Vancouver Fringe Festival during these times of constant change and uncertainty, we will close off this year's festivities with a fresh new concept that combines...constant change and uncertainty! Featuring music, dance, theatre, comedy and a whole lot of improvisation, Vancouver Fringe: Remixed and Remastered will showcase selected standout acts from this year's Fringe, inviting performers to collaborate on three minute improvised summaries of their act with Hip Hop instrumentalist Sam Chimes AKA @OneChimes, host Omari Newton AKA @OmariAkilNewton and dancers from prolific Vancouver dance crew "Immigrant Lessons" @ImmigrantLessons. This closing night celebration will also feature prizes, surprises, booze and much more.
Performance Works
This original one-act play is set in Ebeneezer Scrooge's bedroom. Things seem familiar as the ghost of Jacob Marley disturbs Scrooge's slumber... but all is not as it appears. Fans of the Dickens classics will enjoy the references and verbal gymnastics of the couple who play the title characters. By
Fringe Online
Wings Over Water is an original diasporic bird play set in the liminal space of the ocean where Baby Bird meets 7 birds through phases of growth and cycle breaking: Grandmother Bird, Patriarchy Bird, Anarchy Bird, Blood Bird, Party Bird and Dream Bird. Join us through the intimate and sensory worlds of poetry, original live music created on the loop pedal, somatic movement and shadow puppetry to experience a work of innovative theatre like none other. Will Baby Bird find their way home?
Picnic Pavilion
In a moment outside time and space, two voices dive deep into a delicate and sensory multimedia experience. And ancient goddess and a young woman explore healing and justice after displacement from the body and land. Featuring Jewish ritual, this show offers something ancestrally rich and beyond words.
Fringe Online
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