THEATRE SCHEDULE Celebrating 30 years of Fringe-ing!

THURSDAY 1 FRIDAY 2 SATURDAY 3 SUNDAY 4 MONDAY 5 7:10pm 13 Dead Dreams 5:55pm Crazy for Dick 4:05pm Promise and 2:25pm 13 Dead Dreams 4:10pm My Dad’s Deaths of “Eugene” Tricks: A Dirk Promiscuity of “Eugene” (A Comedy) 8:55pm Promise and Darrow Investigation 6:00pm Into the Tango 4:10pm My Dad’s Deaths 5:55pm 13 Dead Dreams Promiscuity: 5:55pm Crazy for Dick Tricks 7:40pm My Dad’s Deaths 7:40pm Crazy for Dick Tricks of “Eugene” A/C A New Musical 7:40pm Promise and (A Comedy) by Jane Austen and 9:25pm My Dad’s Deaths Promiscuity 7:40pm Into the Tango 715 Broadway Ave. 715 Broadway Broadway Theatre Broadway Penny Ashton 9:25pm Into the Tango (A Comedy) 9:35pm Into the Tango 9:20pm Crazy for Dick Tricks Upper 2:05pm Big Sip 3:50pm I, Frida 5:45pm Rabbit Stew: 3:55pm AMAZE: A Comedy 4:00pm Rabbit Stew: Magic Show 5:35pm Big Sip 7:00pm Big Sip Uncensored Uncensored 5:45pm The Great Pillow War 7:30pm The Great Pillow 8:55pm AMAZE: A 7:30pm I, Frida 5:45pm I, Frida 7:30pm Rabbit Stew: War of ‘96 Comedy Magic 9:15pm The Great Pillow 7:30pm AMAZE: A Comedy Show Magic Show Uncensored 9:15pm Rabbit Stew:

505 10th Street E 505 10th Street War of ‘96 Grace-Westminster 9:20pm The Great Pillow War 9:15pm Big Sip Uncensored Lower 2:25pm Alabama Monster 4:10pm Double-Booked 2:25pm Critically Acclaimed 7:10pm Alabama 4:10pm Venus Martinez and 5:55pm Double-Booked 5:55pm Alabama Monster Superhero Movie Monster the Mexican Mafia 4:10pm The ADHD Project 7:40pm The ADHD Project 7:40pm Critically Acclaimed 8:55pm Venus Martinez 5:55pm Critically Acclaimed 5:55pm Alabama Monster 9:25pm Critically Acclaimed Superhero Movie and the Superhero Movie 7:40pm Venus Martinez and Superhero Movie 7:40pm Double-Booked 9:25pm Venus Martinez and the Mexican Mafia 505 10th Street E 505 10th Street

Grace-Westminster Mexican Mafia 9:25pm The ADHD Project the Mexican Mafia 9:25pm Double-Booked 7:00pm Dion Arnold: 2:30pm In Ireland We 3:50pm Erik de Waal’s 12:35pm It’s Complicated 5:45pm It’s Complicated How I Killed Rented a Car from TROLLS, BULLIES 2:20pm The Watch My Nan 7:30pm In Ireland We Criminals & ROCK STARS 5:35pm Dion Arnold: How 8:55pm Erik de Waal’s Rented a Car from 4:15pm The Watch 5:35pm Dion Arnold: How I Killed My Nan A/C TROLLS, Criminals 7:30pm It’s Complicated I Killed My Nan 7:30pm TROLLS, BULLIES BULLIES & 9:15pm Dion Arnold: How 7:30pm The Watch & ROCK STARS 614 11th Street E 614 11th Street 9:15pm The Watch

Kinsmen/Cosmo Hall Kinsmen/Cosmo ROCK STARS I Killed My Nan 9:15pm In Ireland We Rented 9:15pm In Ireland We Rented 5:45pm Something in the 3:50pm Something in the 2:05pm Franz Ferdinand 3:50pm The Romeo Project 7:10pm #STRANDED— Water Water Must Die 5:45pm #STRANDED Stories of the 7:40pm Dr. Frightful 5:45pm Dr. Frightful Presents: 3:50pm #STRANDED 7:40pm Something in the Modern Bard Presents: A A Frightful Hour 5:45pm Dr. Frightful Presents: Water 9:05pm The Romeo Frightful Hour 7:40pm Franz Ferdinand A Frightful Hour 9:35pm Dr. Frightful The Refinery The 9:35pm Franz Ferdinand Must Die 7:40pm The Romeo Project Presents: A A/C Ave. 609 Dufferin Project Must Die 9:25pm #STRANDED 9:35pm Something in the Water Frightful Hour 5:45pm Monica vs. The 3:50pm Things We (never) 2:10pm Monica vs. The 3:55pm A Woman’s Guide to 7:00pm SpinS Internet: Tales of a Learned in Sex Ed Internet... Peeing Outside Social Justice 5:35pm SpinS 3:55pm War Room 5:40pm War Room 8:55pm A Woman’s Warrior 7:30pm War Room 7:30pm Monica vs. The 5:45pm A Woman’s Guide... Guide to Peeing 7:30pm Things We (never) 9:20pm Monica vs. The Internet... Outside Learned in Sex Ed Internet: Tales of a 7:30pm Things We (never)... 9:15pm Things We (never) 9:15pm SpinS Victoria School Gym. Victoria 9:15pm War Room Social Justice Warrior Learned in Sex Ed Access from 12th St. E 12th St. from Access 12:00pm The Alice 12:50pm African Folktales 12:00pm Imagination Principle with Erik de Waal Station: 1:30pm Imagination The Watermelon 6:00pm African Folktales with 2:20pm Imagination Erik de Waal 4:05pm The Alice Principle A/C Station: of Despair Station: The Watermelon The Watermelon

614 11th Street E 614 11th Street 1:30pm The Alice Principle of Despair Kinsmen/Cosmo Hall Kinsmen/Cosmo of Despair

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Program designed in Saskatoon by FreshWest Media Ltd. (flow magazine). Cover design by Danger Dynamite. Printed by TC TransContinental. No portion of this program may be reprinted without the expressed, written consent of 25th Street Theatre Centre Inc. All rights reserved (2019). AUGUST 1-10, 2019 Theatre Tickets: $15 #yxefringe Purchase tickets online at yxefringe.com, by phone at 306-221-2481 or in person at Fringe Central!

TUESDAY 6 WEDNESDAY 7 THURSDAY 8 FRIDAY 9 SATURDAY 10 5:55pm My Dad’s Deaths 2:20pm Crazy for Dick Tricks 5:55pm 13 Dead Dreams 6:00pm Into the Tango 5:45pm Promise and (A Comedy) 4:05pm Into the Tango of “Eugene” 7:40pm My Dad’s Deaths Promiscuity 7:40pm Promise and 5:45pm Promise and 7:40pm Crazy for Dick Tricks (A Comedy) 7:40pm Into the Tango Promiscuity Promiscuity 9:25pm Promise and 9:25pm 13 Dead Dreams 7:40pm 13 Dead Dreams 9:20pm Crazy for Dick Tricks 9:35pm 13 Dead Dreams Promiscuity of “Eugene” of “Eugene” of “Eugene” 9:25pm My Dad’s Deaths Theatre Broadway 2:00pm The Great Pillow War 5:45pm Rabbit Stew: 5:40pm AMAZE: A Comedy 5:45pm The Great Pillow 5:45pm I, Frida 3:45pm AMAZE: A Comedy Uncensored Magic Show War of ‘96 Magic Show 7:30pm Big Sip 7:30pm AMAZE: A Comedy 7:30pm The Great Pillow 7:30pm Rabbit Stew: 5:35pm Big Sip Magic Show War of ‘96 9:25pm AMAZE: A Comedy Uncensored 7:30pm I, Frida Magic Show 9:15pm Rabbit Stew: 9:20pm I, Frida 9:15pm Big Sip 9:15pm I, Frida Uncensored Grace-Westminster

5:55pm Venus Martinez and 4:10pm Double-Booked 5:55pm Critically Acclaimed 5:55pm Venus Martinez and 5:55pm The ADHD Project the Mexican Mafia 5:55pm The ADHD Project Superhero Movie the Mexican Mafia 7:40pm Alabama Monster 7:40pm Critically Acclaimed 7:40pm The ADHD Project 7:40pm Double-Booked 7:40pm Venus Martinez and 9:25pm Critically Acclaimed Superhero Movie the Mexican Mafia 9:25pm Alabama Monster 9:25pm The ADHD Project Superhero Movie 9:25pm Double-Booked 9:25pm Alabama Monster Grace-Westminster

4:00pm The Watch 5:45pm In Ireland We 5:45pm It’s Complicated 3:50pm Dion Arnold: How I... 5:45pm Erik de Waal’s 5:45pm The Watch Rented a Car from 7:30pm In Ireland We 5:45pm TROLLS, BULLIES TROLLS, BULLIES Criminals Rented a Car from & ROCK STARS 7:30pm Dion Arnold: How & ROCK STARS 7:30pm Erik de Waal’s Criminals 7:30pm In Ireland We I Killed My Nan 7:30pm It’s Complicated TROLLS, BULLIES 9:15pm Erik de Waal’s Rented a Car from 9:15pm Dion Arnold: How 9:25pm It’s Complicated & ROCK STARS TROLLS, BULLIES Criminals

I Killed My Nan 9:15pm The Watch & ROCK STARS 9:15pm It’s Complicated Hall Kinsmen/Cosmo 5:45pm Dr. Frightful Presents: 5:55pm The Romeo Project 2:05pm #STRANDED 5:55pm Franz Ferdinand 5:45pm The Romeo Project A Frightful Hour 7:40pm #STRANDED— 4:00pm Something in the Water Must Die 7:40pm Something in the 7:40pm Franz Ferdinand 5:55pm Franz Ferdinand Stories of a 7:40pm The Romeo Project Water Must Die Must Die Modern Bard 9:35pm Dr. Frightful Presents: 9:35pm Franz Ferdinand 9:25pm #STRANDED— 7:40pm Dr. Frightful Presents:

Stories of a 9:35pm Something in the A Frightful Hour Refinery The A Frightful Hour Must Die Modern Bard Water 9:35pm The Romeo Project 5:35pm A Woman’s 5:45pm Things We (never) 5:35pm A Woman’s 2:00pm War Room 5:45pm SpinS Guide to Peeing Learned in Sex Ed Guide to Peeing 3:50pm Monica vs. The 7:30pm War Room Internet... Outside 7:30pm A Woman’s Outside 9:25pm Monica vs. The 5:35pm SpinS 7:30pm SpinS Guide to Peeing 7:30pm Monica vs. The 7:30pm Things We (never) Internet: Tales of a 9:15pm Things We (never) Outside Internet... Learned in Sex Ed Social Justice Warrior 9:15pm War Room Learned in Sex Ed 9:15pm SpinS 9:15pm A Woman’s Guide... School Gym. Victoria 11:30am Imagination 11:30am The Alice Principle 11:30am Imagination 11:30am African Folktales Station: 1:00pm African Folktales with Station: with Erik de Waal The Watermelon Erik de Waal The Watermelon 1:00pm Imagination 2:20pm African Folktales of Despair 2:30pm Imagination of Despair Station: with Erik de Waal 1:00pm The Alice Principle Station: 1:00pm The Alice Principle The Watermelon 2:30pm African Folktales with The Watermelon 2:30pm African Folktales of Despair

Erik de Waal of Despair with Erik de Waal 2:30pm The Alice Principle Hall Kinsmen/Cosmo

Performance Venues: The Broadway Theatre 715 Broadway Ave. Fringe After Dark Grace-Westminster Church 505 10th St. E Sponsored by 9 Mile Legacy Brewing Company Kinsmen Hall / Cosmo Hall 614 11th St. E Downstairs at The Regal Beagle 733 Broadway Ave. The Refinery 715 Dufferin Ave. A speakeasy for those in the know. Victoria School Gym 639 Broadway Ave. Look for more details on our website. Program Legend: Broadway Theatre Kinsmen Hall/Cosmo Hall Grace-Westminster Upper The Refinery Grace-Westminster Lower Victoria School Gymnasium THE SHOWS Highlighted days indicate a scheduled performance; colour denotes venue. #STRANDED—Stories of the Modern Bard Dion Arnold: How I Killed My Nan Dion Arnold, Andrew Lopatin, Markham, ON Vancouver, BC 70 min Ages 13+ (language) / Storytelling Musical 70 min All ages (language) / Comedy, Storytelling A passionate musician and outdoorsman finds himself in life-changing survival situations when he strolls off Let me explain... the beaten path. Guitar performances and inspiring tales of adventure! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 13 Dead Dreams of “Eugene” Paul Strickland Pres- Double-Booked Success 5000 Productions, Edmonton, AB ents, Cincinnati, OH 60 min 13+ (shadow violence, 60 min Ages 13+ (language) / Comedy nightmare fuel) / Shadow Horror Play What happens when two very different one-man shows X-Files meets The Twilight Zone… in the dark! The are accidentally double-booked on the same stage? AWARD-WINNING OFF-BROADWAY Shadow Puppet Folk Musical. WINNER: Best Show Orlando ***** “A very, very, very funny must-see.” – Edmonton- Fringe 2018. “Seriously creepy fun” – CityBeat fringe.ca 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 A Woman’s Guide to Peeing Outdoors Holly M. Dr. Frightful Presents: A Frightful Hour Buttered Brinkman, Victoria, BC Ghost Theatre, Saskatoon, SK 60 min Ages 13+ (sexual content, language) / 70 min Ages 13+ (language) / Comedy, Live Radio Play Storytelling, Comedy Four wonderful writers, four original comedy/horror Join storyteller Holly M. Brinkman on this coming-of- age adventure. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll try not to radio plays and live on-stage sound effects. From the pee your pants. creators of Dead Air, Southern Dandy 75 and Nautilus! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 African Folktales with Erik de Waal Artsdiva Erik de Waal’s TROLLS, BULLIES & ROCK STARS or A Productions, Edmonton, AB Kerfuffle in a Doodlesack Erik de Waal, Cape Town, RSA 45 min Children (12 & under) / Storytelling, Puppetry 60 min Ages 13+ (violence, sexual content, language) 500,000 kids on 5 continents can’t be wrong. Talking / Storytelling Shocking. Sordid. Disturbing… and true! South Africa’s giraffes, galumphing elephants and lots of laughs. South Erik de Waal delves into the stories lurking behind the African Folktales come to life through storytelling & puppetry. sensational posts, tweets and scandals on our feeds. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Alabama Monster Queen City Flash, Cincinnati, OH Franz Ferdinand Must Die Still Your Friend, 60 min Ages 13+ (language) / Storytelling Toronto, ON 60 min Ages 13+ (violence, language) / Storytelling, Where the Wild Things Scar. Comedy, Drama A multi-award-winning supernatural solo show about Returning with another flabbergasting tale ripped from inherited traits, claws and all. history, Adam Bailey, creator of The Life Henri (**** – Star Phoenix), tackles an improbable, reality-altering assassination. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 AMAZE — A Comedy Magic Show Eliot I, Frida Ay, Caramba! Theatre, Saskatoon, SK Entertainment, Kingston, ON 60 min Ages 13+ (language) / Comedy 65 min All Ages / Magic, Comedy, and Stunt I, FRIDA. Experience her heart-pulling journey from AMAZE is a magic show filled with gut-busting Venezuela to Canada as she searches to find culture, comedy, mind boggling illusions, and jaw-dropping identity, and the meaning of family, home, and LOVE. physical and mental feats. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Big Sip Bearded Brothers Theatre, Saskatoon, SK Imagination Station: The Watermelon of Despair 70 min Ages 13+ (violence, sexual content, language, Orange Jacket KIDS, Saskatoon, SK strobe lights, loud noises) / Comedy, Variety, Experimental 45 min All Ages / Children’s Traditional Theatre, Comedy A collection of 30 two-minute plays where the order of Ralgar has unleashed a wicked watermelon on Tharpon’s amazingly wonderful spaceship, and it’s the night is decided and guided by the audience? YES! up to you to help save the universe by learning about Chaos? Comedy? Dramedy? Yes, please. self-confidence! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Crazy for Dick Tricks: A Dirk Darrow Investigation In Ireland We Rented a Car from Criminals Dumb Tim Motley, Adelaide, Aus. Axe Productions, Saskatoon, SK 60 min Ages 13+ (language, adult situations) / 60 min Ages 13+ / Comedy, Blarney Comedy Magic Noir In the famine graveyards of County Clare, Tom and Winner of 14 Fringe Festival Awards . ***** “Incredible” -Edmonton Journal. ALL NEW comedy magic: 5 Mary search for their Irish ancestors, while the car-rent- characters, 5 magic tricks… in a 1930’s asylum. al agent plans an unhappy ending for their vacation. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Critically Acclaimed Superhero Movie Into the Tango Pointe Tango, Montreal, QC/ SiriuslyZiggy Productions, Toronto, ON Buenas Aires, Arg. 60 min Mature Audiences Only (language, minor sexual 55 min All Ages / Dance content, violence) / Improvised Comedic Superhero Movie Award-winning dance company, PointeTango returns from Buenos Aires with INTO THE TANGO, a An entirely Improvised Superhero Movie based off of breathtaking new show featuring world-class dancers audience suggestions. The power is in your hands. Erin and Alexander. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 AUGUST 1–10, 2019 YXEFRINGE.COM

It’s Complicated Shadow Players, Saskatoon, SK The Alice Principle Shadow Players, Saskatoon, SK 60 min Ages 13+ (violence, sexual content, language, 45 min Children (12 & under) (loud noises, scary references to sexual assault & harassment) / Satirical situations) / Comic Adventures for Children Sketch Comedy Grown-up Goldilocks, Red Riding Hood and Alice (as Ideals, social norms, self-esteem, tradition, standards, in Wonderland) meet in a strange adventure that pits and finding the middle ground. I guess it’s complicated. them against the evil powers of Magic Mirror. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Monica vs. The Internet: Tales of a Social Justice The Great Pillow War of ‘96 Not My Favourite Warrior Rage Sweater Theatre Productions, Victoria, Daughter, Winnipeg, MB BC (unceded Lekwungen and WSANEC territories) 60 min Ages 13+ (language, sounds of gunshots) / 60 min Ages 13+ (discussions of racism, colonization, Comedy misogyny, ableism) / Storytelling, Comedy Summer 1996. Spice Girls. Butterfly clips. Jelly Shoes. Award-winning Filipina storyteller sheds light on activism in the age of First kisses. Blood. Destruction. Combat. Death. Come the internet, mixed-race identity, & why white feminism is like Lays chips. enter the battle zone of being a pre-teen. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

My Dad’s Deaths (A Comedy) A Mulled Whine, The Romeo Project The Studio, Saskatoon, SK Wellington, NZ 70 min Ages 13+ (mature content) / Comedy, Drama 60 min Mature Audiences Only (language) / Comedy, Storytelling A classroom. Some students. Romeo and Juliet. All hell Multi award-winning performer Jon Bennett has a breaks loose. strange relationship with his conservative father; an accident-prone man who has died... more than once. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Promise and Promiscuity: A New Musical by Jane Austen The Watch Little Big Theatre, Saskatoon, SK and Penny Ashton Penash Productions, Auckland, NZ 60 min Mature Audiences Only (sexual content, 70 min Ages 13+ (mild innuendo) / Musical Comedy language) / Comedy A Kiwi tackles all of Austen’s characters with ukulele, When the gift of a smart watch puts pressure on their dance & appalling cross-stitching. ***** CBC; “‘Pride relationship, Sam and Jordan find a common enemy... and Prejudice’ gone wild”; ***** Rip It Up Adelaide. The Robinsons. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Rabbit Stew: Uncensored Ben Price Magic, Things We (never) Learned in Sex Ed Portal Calgary, AB Theater, Monmouth, OR 60 min Ages 13+ (sexual content) / Comedy, Drama 60 min Ages 13+ / Magic Let’s Talk About Sex, maybe? Or, maybe not? After An extremely captivating magic and side show like radically different Sex Ed experiences, Lindsay and you have never seen before. Phoebe try to figure it all out! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Something in the Water Scantily Glad Theatre, Venus Martinez and the Mexican Mafia ZG- Saskatoon, SK Productions, Wickenburg, AZ 70 min Mature Audiences Only (sexual content, 60 min Mature Audiences Only (sexual content) / nudity, squids) / Physical Comedy Comedy From the creator of SCUM: a manifesto & Pack Ani- Venus and Danny fall in love and go on an adventure that mals comes a brand new solo adventure into comic books, monster movies and growing up “normal”. is a crying shame, the kind that gives love a bad name. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

SpinS janoah...anygoodjokes?, Peaks Island, ME War Room Floyd Theatre, Saskatoon, SK 70 min All Ages / Circus 65 min Ages 13+ (violence, language) / Satire, A wildly dizzying whirl(d) of juggling giggling magic & Musical movement, puppetry pjs circus & socks…totally tangled Deep in the Colorado Rockies, the President and his together! administration hide in the secret war bunker awaiting im- minent attack in this politically incorrect satire/musical. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

The ADHD Project Squirrel Suit Productions, Hamilton, ON 60 min Ages 13+ / Storytelling Program Legend: A comedy about growing up a little bit “Special”, enter Carlyn’s world of chaos and combat with her mind. Broadway Theatre Kinsmen Hall/Cosmo Hall **** “HILARIOUS” – VueWeekly; Grace-Westminster Upper The Refinery **** ”CAPTIVATING” – OnstageOttawa. Grace-Westminster Lower Victoria School Gymnasium 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Highlighted days indicate a scheduled performance; colour denotes venue.

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