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Arts & Culture
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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Campus & City
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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Campus & City
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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Campus & City
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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City
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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Arts & Culture
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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Campus & City
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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Campus & City
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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2018 Fringe Review: The Real Inspector Hound
In Bright Young Thing’s production of Tom Stoppard’s comedic tour de force The Real Inspector Hound, two critics jump onstage into the play they’re reviewing — and I, a third critic — found myself equally enthralled. Stoppard, one of the…
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City
2018 Fringe Review: The Importance of Being Earnest
Empress of Blandings Productions’ rendition of Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, soars at the 2018 Fringe. Man of high society John Worthing must do everything in his power to rein in his unscrupulous and scheming friend…
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2018 Fringe Review: Harun
In Arabic, he’s Harun; in English, he’s Aaron. The titular protagonist of Makram Ayache’s new work oscillates between two names, two worlds, and two identities as he reckons with the death of his mother one year prior to the play’s…
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2018 Fringe Review: Whiteface
As brilliant as it is, it’s hard to put my thoughts on Whiteface into words. As a show that critiques reductionism just as much as it utilizes it, it coats itself in codings not entirely decipherable. The play derives as…
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2018 Fringe Review: Clean Cut
Providing a perfect balance of comic misunderstanding, heartbreaking honesty, and beautifully genuine roommate bonding, Clean Cut is the perfect Fringe show to cry and laugh along with. In Clean Cut, Lilith (Morgan Alexandra Donald) sorts through her recently deceased roommate’s…
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2018 Fringe Review: Rocko and Nakota: Tales from the Land
Nakota is on a quest: he wants to write the greatest story ever for his Grade Six class. Like any hero on a quest, he has an obstacle: Nakota sporadically hyperventilates and faints, and the doctors can’t figure out why.…
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2018 Fringe Review: Gosammer Obsessions: The Morality Puns
“Behold! Horrible wonders and wondrous horrors!” A man breaks one of his fragile falanges for each hour his devious daughter is out past curfew. A woman consumes a burrito in slow motion while her world unravels. A Smirnoff Ice™ is…
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