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Summer Bucket List 2025
School is almost done! You’ve survived eight months of intense studying and lots of hard work. We’re almost in the homestretch of the winter semester, with sunnier and warmer days on the horizon. Even if you’re taking a spring or…
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2024 Fringe Festival Review: Spin Cycle
Spin Cycle, a new play by Giulia Romano and Jonathan Ewing, premiered at the Edmonton Fringe Festival this past week. Previously workshopped at the 2024 New Works Festival and directed by Karina Krcek, the show explores morality through the lens…
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2024 Fringe Festival Review: Practically Perfect Pitch
If you were around the age of 11 in 2012, then you probably know the cult-classic Pitch Perfect. What you probably don’t know is that Practically Perfect Pitch is a hilarious parody musical of the beloved movie, and you can…
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2024 Fringe Festival Review: 27 Pictures
27 Pictures is a new play written and directed by Liam Witte. The two-person show follows Lily (Erin Harvey) and Troy (Jayden Leung), as they reflect on their relationship. The show uses pictures the couple has taken on a disposable…
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2024 Fringe Festival Review: Joan and Olivia: a Hollywood Ghost Story
The aged, Hollywood star is one of the great obsessions of modern pages, screens, stages, and hearts. In Joan & Olivia: a Hollywood Ghost Story — directed by Matt Eger and written by Georgia Findlay — renowned Golden Age actresses…
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2024 Fringe Festival Review: 960 Months and Counting…
960 Months and Counting… is a one-man show performed and written by André Roy. Roy, who is 80 years old (or 960 months), takes the audience on an intimate ride through the story of his life. Roy’s masterful storytelling transforms…
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U of A alumna named new Walterdale Theatre artistic director
University of Alberta alumna Barbara Mah has a prominent background in the creative arts in Alberta. Now, she is entering the role of artistic director at the Walterdale Theatre for its 66th and 67th seasons. Mah has a Bachelor of…
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2019 Fringe Festival Review: Haley Moorhouse’s “Suspension”
Suspension is an absurdist romp that begins as a rollicking comedy of nonsensical proportions and ends in a terrifying realization about the spectacle of grief and the nature of suffering. When two strangers encounter one another, both watching a plane…
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2019 Fringe Festival Review: Daniel MacIvor’s Monster
Monster is a one-man thrill ride sure to shock and delight with its darkness, intrigue, and intensity. In everyone, there is a spectrum of morality. This spectrum, and especially its extremes, is the focus of Daniel MacIvor’s Monster. Starring Ryan…
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2018 Fringe Review: Tragedy: A Tragedy
In a world of fake news and alleged trauma actors peppering our news reports, Blarney Productions’ rendition of Will Eno’s Tragedy: A Tragedy takes all of the TV tropes and hyperboles we take in on a daily basis and bakes…
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2018 Fringe Review: Concord Floral
Directed by Mieko Ouchi, 10 out of 12 Productions’ rendition of Jordan Tannahill’s Concord Floral uses music, movement, and lighting creates a stirring and haunting production that begs the audience to recognize their potential for good. As Rosa Mundi (Helen…
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2018 Fringe Review: Scorch
Blarney Productions’ rendition of Stacey Gregg’s Scorch is a whirlwind of emotion, throwing the audience into the heart of genderqueer teenager Kes’ struggle with their identity and their past. The script, while sporadic, accurately reflects a common teenage mindset; jumping…
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2018 Fringe Review: One Clown’s Trash
Those of you curious about (what my Granny would call) “street people,” should come join Spatz in One Clown’s Trash. Dressed in drabs, with a red nose, Spatz is a hobo clown: not to be confused with a “homeless,” Spatz…
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2018 Fringe Review: 2 Sherlock Holmes Stories
Sixty minutes, two men, two classic mysteries: 2 Sherlock Holmes Mysteries showcases two of Arthur Conan Doyle’s favourite short stories, holding you in suspense as you follow the exploits of the one and only consultant detective. In The Red Headed…
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Fringe 2018 Review: Heroine
Affair of Honour’s production of Karen Bassett’s drama Heroine opens in a desolate atmosphere in the aftermath of a pirate battle, which left me feeling trapped and terrified from the start. Suffice it to say that I was — if…
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2018 Fringe Review: Unscriptured
Unscriptured invites the audience to “please rise” in an improvised religious service as creator-performer Travis Bernhardt himself rises to the occasion. Over the course of an hour, Bernhardt takes an audience suggestion for the central object of worship for an…
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2018 Fringe Review: Cult Cycle: A New Musical
The burn of your thighs, sweat clinging to every inch of skin, the panicked reach for breath as you madly pedal your way to your “bikini bod” — these sensations are native to a spin class, and to the cast…
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How to succeed in the Edmonton Fringe
What: Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival When: August 16 – 26, 2018 Where: Old Strathcona Tickets: Available at the box office in the Arts Barns at several satellite box offices during the festival, at Tix on the Square, over the phone…
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2018 Fringe Review: The Soldier’s Tale
The Soldier’s Tale is a piece of music by 20th century Russian-born classical composer Igor Stravinsky. It’s also a dramatic work by Swiss writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. How you evaluate the work depends largely on which category of art you place…
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2018 Fringe Review: Guenevere
Lucky Wench Productions’ production of Guenevere is a moving piece which leads the audience through the last days of King Arthur through the eyes of queen-turned-nun Guenevere. One can interpret playwright John Richardson’s imagery both literally and symbolically. This could…
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