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Strathcona Library(8331 - 104 Street) Once again, the Strathcona Public Library opens its doors for performances throughout the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival. The Library offers a mix of local productions and international touring artists, and a blend of theatre, music, poetry and storytelling. Tickets for all performances at the Strathcona Library are available at the door one hour before the start of that performance. Advance tickets for all performances are available at www.fringetheatreadventures.ca, or by calling 780.409.1910. The Strathcona Library venue is air conditioned, and features (we're not kidding) the nicest washrooms at the Fringe. Although the venue is on the second floor, there is an elevator for those with mobility issues - just talk to our friendly front of house staff when you get to the theatre.
Strathcona Library - Stage N
Bloom
When Alice Ridgeway, recently widowed Co-Chair of the Stony Valley Communities in Bloom Committee, takes a walk at her late husband's farm, she's horrified to find a marijuana grow-op in the old barn. Whose plants are they? And they could sure use some fertilizer.
Fairly Scary Fairy Tales
The Campers at Camp Squealy-Moo need help to earn their Fairly-Scary-Fairy-Tale-Telling Badges. But beware of the Squealy Moose!
Fairly Scary Fairy Tales is a maximum energy, maximum participation and maximum fun show. Children will delight at barely recognizable, but scary, old favorites such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, and the Billy Goats Gruff.
http://kompanyfamilytheatre.wordpress.com/category/productions/fairly-scary-fairy-tales/
Lucky 9
Playwright: TJ Dawe
TJ Dawe is an award winning (and published) writer/performer/director, whose solo credits include Totem Figures, The Slipknot and Tired Cliches, and whose credits as a collaborator include Toothpaste & Cigars (in development as the film The F Word), 52 Pick-up, The Power of Ignorance, Dishpig and The One Man Star Wars Trilogy.
Me, My Stuff and I
From the creator of JESUS IN MONTANA and AMERICAN SQUATTER comes a disturbingly funny multimedia comedy about...stuff. Lots of stuff. Writer/performer Barry Smith began documenting every detail of his existence from an early age. His young passion morphed into a bizarre obsession. And now he wonders, "Who saves this stuff?!"
Our Man Tommy Douglas
Playwright Tony Cashman, director Frank Glenfield and actor Doug Verdin come together to tell the story of Tommy Douglas, "who tells of his life during his lowest point," says Cashman. "In 1962, doctors and insurance companies opposed him in a row over his medicare plans. There is a similarity with Barack Obama's plans today."
Douglas was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became the socialist premier of Saskatchewan and introduced universal public health care to Canada.
Shimmer
wishbone, the company behind 2009's multi-Sterling-award-nominated and acclaimed holdover hit Bashir Lazhar, returns with "a rivetingly kinetic solo piece" (N.Y. Times). A man looks back on his escape at fifteen from the harsh realities of group home life, exorcising the trauma of abuse in a celebration of friendship, art and freedom. Gritty. Turbulent. Lyrical. A classic story of liberation, presented by some of Edmonton's most respected theatre artists.
The Tornado!: A Musical Prairie Tragicomedy
Playwright: Michelle Kennedy
what happens when a tornado of biblical proportion rips through an idyllic prairie town? what are your options? do you a) hide under a big tree and hope for the best; b) forgive past wrongs and hope for the best; c) sing songs and hope for the best; or d) none of the above?
Tired Cliches
Fringe favourite TJ Dawe's first hit comedy returns! - performed by Alex Eddington (WOOL, The Fugue Code: **** Edmonton Journal).
A young man gets caught in a bizarre series of events.
Dawe's hilarious whirlwind of (seemingly) unrelated monologues builds to a riveting climax that ties everything together...in unexpected ways.
"Phenomenal!" - SEE Magazine
Strathcona Library - Stage N
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