Cover The Ottawa Fringe Thanks You The Ottawa Fringe Festival is a charitable non-profi t with a mandate to provide a stage for the performing arts that is as accessible to artists as it is for audiences. Contents We rely on grants, members and donors to support this endeavour: a Festival with no curator and where 100% of ticket sales belong to the artists. friendship Welcome Messages We are deeply grateful to the following individuals 5 for their contributions: Fringe Founder Fellow Fringer Andrew Arcand Alexandra Larocque Anne Elisabeth Reitbauer Andrew McMaster How to Fringe / Box Offi ce David Schellenberg Anne Schmitz 6 Elizabeth Margeson Aurora Hudson John Kirkwood Beverley Chartrand Marilyn Meikle Bill Dickey Marisa Victor Britta Evans-Fenton Festival Map Neil Walsh Maria-Helena Caroline Coltman 7 Pacelli Melissa Gruber Ceara Heffernan Terry Cullinan Christine Grant Vivian Lee Chun Chang Deanna Vecchiarelli Fringe Friend Show Listings Deborah James Bill Mcewen 8 Elizabeth Bernstein Charles D. Mcewen Equal Justice Canada Glenn Nuotio Gail Pattman Janet Campbell Guillermo Garza-Risueno Ken King Schedule Heather Cross Lynda Joyce 18-19 Hilary Hampson Melissa Gruber Isabelle Cayer Victoria Steele Janet Nasmith Wilma Di Gaetano Jennifer Martinez BYOV Show Listings Fringe Follower Kamil Malinowski 20 Feliks Welfeld Katrin Nagelschmitz Joan Frommer Louise Soucy Kevin Brand Lynn Tarzwell Leslie Carmichael Meaghan Bennett Free Programming Marilyn Meikle Michael Carty 23 Sean Boyd Michael Haslett Steven Riding Michel Kazan Neil Fitzpatrick Fringe Fan Neil Walsh Emily Pearlman Best of Fest Patricia Hubert Fanny Lemieux 25 Peter Padbury J Robert Brocklebank Philip Shwed James White Ray Besharah Pam Fitch Rebekah Hutten Judy Reid Support the Fringe Richard Stark Karen Golets Pancer 27 Richard Telfer Marian Power Robert Clipperton Mary Wiggin Rosalie Rufelds Melanie Yugo Scott McMaster Nancy Oakley Fringe Courtyard Shawn Ladd Nancy Kenny 29 Sheena Jardine-Olade Pamela Harle Shreyas Batra Rhondene Simms Steve Mackey Stella Firko Tania Levy Stuart Forestell Mini-Fringers Terry Cullinan 31 Wendy Doyle I Am A Fringe Patron, I Support The Arts #DOWNTOWNRIDEAU Plan Your Fringe The Ottawa Fringe Festival (registered charity 32 no. 897771721RR0001) needs your help to sustain this project. Call us at 613.232.6162 x103 or visit DOWNTOWNRIDEAU.COM ottawafringe.com/support to donate today. We extend special gratitude to our partners and to Sponsors the many volunteers who dedicate their time and 34 talent. On behalf of the artists, we wish to thank you as well, the Festival’s loyal patrons. Director’s Message CAFF Message Welcome to the 2019 Ottawa Fringe! This year the Canadian Association of Fringe It’s Festival Season in Ottawa. Three glorious Festivals (CAFF) turns 25 years old! months of art, food, culture, and (fi ngers Although Fringes have existed long before we did crossed) sunshine. Whether it’s your fi rst time as an organization, we pride ourselves on the at the Fringe or your fi fteenth, we’re glad that long-term support we have offered our member you’re here – and we’re sure that you will be too. festivals over the years, and the foundation we This year’s Festival features 54 shows from have laid for the years to come. Ottawa and beyond. In addition to our dyna- We currently have 33 member festivals mite line-up of local artists, we’re welcoming spanning Canada and the USA and we exist as performers from as far away as California, the an organization to unite, support, empower, Yukon, and the United Kingdom (to name a and strengthen our member festivals in order few); presenting comedies, musicals, dance, to cultivate and foster independent artistic storytelling, puppetry, magic, improv, circus, exploration for artists and audiences across satire, and Shakespeare (and more!). If you North America. want it, we’ve got it. CAFF members return 100% of the ticket price There’s lots that’s new this year: we’re proud back to the artists and all festivals are selected to announce that all of our venues are now either by lottery or on a fi rst come/fi rst served physically accessible – the addition of the basis, ensuring that everyone has the same University of Ottawa’s brand new LabO and opportunity to tell their story on stage. Studio 1201 spaces means everyone can access The CAFF member festivals are so lucky to be all of our shows; we’re also introducing some able to present to you a wide array of artists, brand new BYOVs this year – make time to give some established and some telling their stories these spaces a visit. for the very fi rst time. Supporting those artists And most exciting of all, our outdoor Courtyard are the festival producers, front of house staff, is back! Located at 67 Nicholas on the west technicians, production managers, and countless side of Arts Court, the Courtyard is where others, as well as an incredibly dedicated team you can grab a drink, hit up a food truck, and of volunteers at every festival. I want to take relax while waiting for your next show to begin. this opportunity to thank every one of those All Fringed out for the day? Hang out and relax people who help facilitate these wonderful while taking in some of the free programming festivals because we all believe in the on the Downtown Rideau stage. collective movement of Fringe, and that So get out your pen and start pouring through is truly a powerful thing. the program. Not sure what to see? Pick So thank you for being here, for taking some something at random and have an adventure. of your time to see a show or two, and for You’re here… now see as many shows as you can! supporting your local Fringe festival.
Patrick Gauthier Lucy Eveleigh Festival Director CAFF President
5 The Ottawa Fringe Festival is privileged to take place on the How to Fringe Festival traditional, unceded territories of the Algonquin Anishinabeg. STEP 1 STEP 2 Map Pick your show Grab Your Pin Flip through this program or click your Only $3. Fringe Pins are required to purchase a way to ottawafringe.com/shows – with ticket. Since 100% of ticket sales are returned 50+ shows and more than 300 performances, to the performers, pin sales help keep the we guarantee there’s something for you. Festival growing. Pins are available online, at the box office, 4 and at all venues. 1 5 2 C STEP 3 STEP 4 D 3 Buy your tickets Visit the Fringe ONLINE or AT THE BOX OFFICE Courtyard up to two hours before showtime. The Courtyard is Ottawa Fringe’s hub, AT THE VENUE within one hour of located at 67 Nicholas Street, on the west showtime (cash only). side of Arts Court – grab some food and drink, make and meet friends, and find out what shows are not to be missed.
Box Office Box Office hours All venues sell tickets at the door, cash only. JUNE 13 TO 23, 2019 B Advance tickets and passes are available at Monday to Friday 4pm to 9pm the Festival Box Office. Saturday 1pm to 9pm Arts Court / 2 Daly, Elevator B, 2nd floor Sunday 1pm to 6pm By phone / 613-232-6162
No latecomers. No exchanges. No refunds. No exceptions… due to the nature of our venues and given that the Fringe only sells tickets on behalf of the artists. Thank you for understanding. Venues Bring Your Own Venues Money Saving Tips 1 Arts Court Theatre • 2 Daly Avenue, Elevator B A Knox Presbyterian - Geneva Hall • corner of Lisgar & Elgin 2 ODD Box • 2 Daly Avenue, Elevator A B Knox Presbyterian - Sanctuary • corner of Lisgar & Elgin TIP 1 TIP 2 TIP 3 3 Academic Hall • 133 Séraphin-Marion C Studio 2201 • 10 Daly Avenue 4 LabO • 10 Daly Avenue D Arts Court Library • 2 Daly Avenue, Elevator A Get a FOURPLAY package, 5 and 10-show DOOR PASSES Many shows are offering HALF 5 Studio 1201 • 10 Daly Avenue available exclusively online. are available for $55 and $99, PRICE TICKETS. These rush Fringe Courtyard • 67 Nicholas Street Save more than 15% on advance respectively. To use these you tickets are for select perfor- When visiting a venue for the first time, give a heads up to the volunteers at the door or stationed at one of the Festival’s tickets to four shows. Get it? have to get in line! Passes this mances and are available information hubs. The physically accessible entrance may not be the most prominent. When possible, please arrive Foreplay… in advance… four… cheap can only be redeemed day-of, cash only. What shows with a few minutes to spare. plays… right OK! at the door. Available at the and what dates? Subscribe for For more information on venue accessibility, as well as transit Festival Box Office. news at ottawafringe.com. and parking options, please visit ottawafringe.com/venues or contact [email protected].
6 7 VENUE 1 130 Arts Court Theatre 2 Sherlock Holmes Beneath the Bikini I Am The Most Date Night at Pet Destiny, USA Pinter Stew Bikini Katie Productions / Orlando, USA Convection Productions / Syracuse, USA Third Wall Theatre / Ottawa, ON Adventures by Katie Thayer Unfeeling Doctor In Emergency by Laura Anne Harris by Harold Pinter & Third Wall Winnipeg Thespian Fellowship Productions / Lisa Rothman / Oakland, USA Winnipeg, MB 60 MIN / MUSICAL / 14+ The World 60 MIN / STORYTELLING / PG 60 MIN / PLAY / 14+ COMEDY, DRAMA, SOLO, STORYTELLING, CABARET by Lisa Rothman PLAY, COMEDY, DRAMA COMEDY, DRAMA by Kenneth Brown & John D. Huston from 90 MIN / PLAY / 14+ the works of Arthur Conan Doyle (And Other True COMEDY, DRAMA, SOLO 60 MIN / PLAY / PG Tales From The COMEDY, DRAMA, MYSTERY Emergency Room) Melissa Yuan-Innes / North Lancaster, ON by Melissa Yuan-Innes 60 MIN / STORYTELLING / PG COMEDY, DRAMA, SOLO
In 2013 Katie Thayer started a performance When Laura moves from Toronto to Syracuse, Ottawa theatre legends John Koensgen art piece for Orlando Fringe called Bikini New York, she wasn’t expecting to be residing & James Richardson, try to make sense Advertising Space, where she wears a bikini Is rescuing two dogs and having two kids in Trump’s America. Gaining her fi rst job as of the world with the words of another in less than three years a good idea? Sippy Sold out run: Edmonton Fringe! Vintage and sells ad space on her body. In this a relay operator for the deaf and hard of theatre legend - Harold Pinter. John directs cups. Impenetrable origami instructions. fringers, John D. Huston (Screwtape) & “heartfelt cabaret” that “ends on a strong, hearing reveals the hidden humanity of James, James directs John, Graham Price A cocker spaniel drug overdose. Lisa’s not Kenneth Brown (Spiral Dive) play everyone inspiring note,” Bikini Katie sings about her the American people. designs. Where they’ll go nobody knows love of food, growing up not so skinny, and sure about anything anymore – except this but they’ll likely end up nuking London. in 2 Sherlockian Adventures, the world’s “If you are searching for a relief from fi nding the confi dence to love her body. has got to be the worst date night ever. Nobel prize-winning writing performed by fi rst, fi nest, sleuthing stories: Holmes, modern cynicism and despair, look no Watson, distressed damsels, perplexed Birth, blood & bodies. award-winning artists. Third Wall at its best! Winner: Best Solo Show-Cabaret “Funny...profound” – San Francisco Examiner further than Destiny U.S.A.” - The Ubyssey Have you ever shoved a breathing tube w/ St. Lawrence Shakespeare Fest. police, scurrilous scoundrels. 75 years - Orlando Fringe 2018. of stage-craft on dazzling display in sixty down a two-year-old’s throat? Helped “A natural born storyteller” – Bay Area Reporter “Harris commands the stage”- Theatre Addicts THURSDAY 13 6:00PM scintillating minutes. “Masters of the FRIDAY 14 6:30PM deliver a stranger’s baby? Defi brillated “Worth getting a sitter for!” – Mother of triplets Fringe” (Edmonton Sun) a heart? If so, awesome. If not, join THURSDAY 13 10:30PM SATURDAY 15 9:00PM SATURDAY 15 3:00PM Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes, MD, master of FRIDAY 14 9:30PM SATURDAY 15 7:30PM SUNDAY 16 2:00PM FRIDAY 14 8:00PM SUNDAY 16 8:30PM disaster and mistress of distress, for SATURDAY 15 1:00PM MONDAY 17 6:00PM TUESDAY 18 8:00PM SATURDAY 15 4:30PM WEDNESDAY 19 11:00PM hilarious and heartbreaking true tales SUNDAY 16 6:30PM WEDNESDAY 19 9:30PM FRIDAY 21 10:30PM MONDAY 17 9:00PM SATURDAY 22 7:00PM of control vs. chaos, based on her bestselling book, The Most Unfeeling TUESDAY 18 6:00PM FRIDAY 21 6:00PM SUNDAY 23 6:00PM THURSDAY 20 5:30PM SUNDAY 23 4:30PM Doctor in the World. THURSDAY 20 10:00PM SATURDAY 22 5:30PM FRIDAY 21 9:00PM www.myi.ninja SATURDAY 22 8:30PM SATURDAY 22 2:30PM THURSDAY 13 7:30PM LIGHTS! CAMERA! SATURDAY 15 10:30PM The Key to Time Travel ODD JOBS? Did you know Allisoneb / Ottawa, ON SUNDAY 16 5:00PM Arthur MacKinnon / Vancouver, BC by Allison Elizabeth Burns by Arthur MacKinnon WEDNESDAY 19 8:00PM 60 MIN / DANCE / G that Roller Derby 60 MIN / PLAY / PG DRAMA, SCI-FI THURSDAY 20 7:00PM SOLO SATURDAY 22 4:00PM Saved My Soul, which premiered at the Ottawa Fringe in 2011, What is the key to time travel? It’s easier Join an actor in his quest for a career that than you think. We’re doing it right now. goes from acting work to the many odd went on to be I’m writing this, thinking about you - and jobs in between. Stories of acting classes, now you’re reading it, thinking about me. TV and theatre gigs, interwoven with real performed over Present tense, days apart. life roles such as cherry picker, coin shop A theatrical contemporary dance duet that employee, and call centre representative, treads the brilliant borderland between to name a few. Unexpected discoveries 120 times reality and magic. Travel through time by and refl ections from the work, about dropping memory markers in specifi c acting and life. A journey towards…. in 20 different moments in the past, present, and future. SUNDAY 16 10:00PM THURSDAY 13 9:00PM MONDAY 17 7:30PM cities? SATURDAY 15 6:00PM WEDNESDAY 19 6:30PM SUNDAY 16 3:30PM THURSDAY 20 8:30PM TUESDAY 18 9:30PM SATURDAY 22 10:30PM FRIDAY 21 7:30PM SUNDAY 23 2:30PM SUNDAY 23 1:00PM
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The Last President Tornado Troubles Bat Brains or (let’s Beans of Fury Suitcase of Wonders Break Free Entertainment / Ottawa, ON Matt Hertendy / Ottawa, ON Ryan Pilling - Magician / Ottawa, ON of Canada by Rory Gardiner explore mental illness by Matt Hertendy by Ryan Pilling Did you know Yukon Artists Collective Theatre / Whitehorse, YT 60 MIN / CONCERT / G 60 MIN / PLAY / PG 60 MIN / MAGIC / G by Doug Rutherford with vampires) STAND-UP COMEDY, SOLO Sam Kruger / Minneapolis, USA COMEDY, PUPPET, SOLO COMEDY, SOLO, THEORETICAL PHYSICS 60 MIN / PLAY / 14+ Ottawa Fringe DRAMA, SOLO by Sam Kruger 60 MIN / PHYSICAL / 14+ COMEDY, SOLO supports new work with creation Ever shopped for a cleaning product Grouchy customers, long hours, little pay, With odds of a billion to one against, that will remove trees from a basement and the constant threat of being burned. magician Ryan Pilling rolls the dice in a grants? In 1966, Paul Chartier blamed the government carpet? Or had breakfast with a family You MUST have a smile on your face. At. magic show and social experiment that for his many failures. He decided to get of squirrels? The result of mother nature All. Times. dances along the line between highly OTTAWAFRINGE.COM/CREATORS revenge by throwing a bomb on the fl oor of When a surprise visitor appears at Scud giving you the fi nger by sending a tornado the vampire’s door, Scud is launched off improbable and absolutely impossible. As the House of Commons, delivering a speech to your front door (Sept 21-2018). This The Barista is at war. These are their stories. a quick-witted ringmaster, Ryan pits your listing his grievances, and declaring himself on a madcap journey into the darkest 2018 CCMA nominated artist/comedian A highly caffeinated, object-puppetry free will against a locked suitcase in a the President of Canada. His plan was depths of his home, his mind, and beyond. takes you on a hilarious journey of life infused, lip-synchy extravaganza. theatrical gamble that could go either unsuccessful and he died in the attempt. after natural disaster. Join us for a night A new play from the creator of Fool Muun way. Amazing magic and weird stunts with From the 3 TIME PRIX RIDEAU AWARD WINNING Now, the ghost of Chartier is offered the of music, stories & stand up comedy. Komming! (etc, etc) a dash of choose-your-own adventure. creator of Rideshares & Rope Swings, Swedish opportunity to deliver his speech... from THURSDAY 13 6:30PM Winner: Pick of the Fringe - Edmonton Fringe, 2018 Furniture and the infamous Boy vs. Chair. THURSDAY 13 8:00PM the afterlife. Winner: Outstanding Solo - Ottawa Fringe, 2018 SATURDAY 15 9:30PM SATURDAY 15 3:30PM “Sam Kruger is a special and weird Fringe FRIDAY 14 10:00PM FRIDAY 14 7:00PM MONDAY 17 10:00PM SUNDAY 16 6:00PM jewel.”- CBC SATURDAY 15 5:00PM SATURDAY 15 2:00PM WEDNESDAY 19 7:30PM WEDNESDAY 19 9:00PM SUNDAY 16 3:00PM SUNDAY 16 10:30PM FRIDAY 21 6:30PM SUNDAY 16 7:30PM FRIDAY 21 11:00PM TUESDAY 18 7:00PM TUESDAY 18 8:30PM SATURDAY 22 5:00PM MONDAY 17 8:30PM SUNDAY 23 5:00PM FRIDAY 21 8:00PM THURSDAY 20 9:00PM TUESDAY 18 10:00PM SATURDAY 22 11:00PM SATURDAY 22 6:30PM Babel On THURSDAY 20 6:00PM Tim C. Murphy / Ottawa, ON FRIDAY 21 9:30PM by Tim C. Murphy Beyond The Pale SUNDAY 23 3:30PM Sherri Rose / San Carlos, USA 60 MIN / STORYTELLING / 14+ by Sherri Rose COMEDY, DRAMA 60 MIN / PLAY / G Perfect Date COMEDY, DRAMA, SOLO Sam Pomerant / Ottawa, ON by Sam Pomerant 60 MIN / STORYTELLING / 14+ COMEDY, SOLO
Talking is so easy, until it’s with someone you THE KEY TO TIME TRAVEL love. A love letter to Mom and Dad - with It’s easier than you think... Meet The Evil Eye! A demented, delightful a side of cheesy 80s music, attachment demon with major control issues! Follow her theory, and lessons from courageous centuries old tug of war with one immigrant students in Kuwait. A contemporary dance show family as they transplant, assimilate, and What is a Perfect Date? Is it brunch? Is it From the creator of Fringe hit BLIND TO th 2019 Ottawa Fringe Festival even seek salvation in Silicon Valley. Who a night at the Met Gala? Is it March 14 at HAPPINESS (2016 Toronto Best of Fest | 4:36PM? Sam Pomerant is living in a world Arts Court Theatre wins? Who survives? Find out in 3 heartfelt 2017 Ottawa Best of Fest) and funny fables. A show for anyone who where he is getting increasingly desperate www.allisoneb.com has struggled to fi t in and break the bonds “Murphy is masterful” cccc National Post for love and an excuse to go to brunch. Follow him as he unwraps his dating past Photo by Marianne Duval of superstition. ccccc Ignite FM to hopefully fi nd a love-fi lled present. cccc ½ VUE FRIDAY 14 8:30PM Who knows, maybe this will all lead to cccc Edmonton Journal a life fi lled with love or at the very least SATURDAY 15 6:30PM cccc Torontoist one Perfect Date. MONDAY 17 7:00PM WEDNESDAY 19 10:30PM SATURDAY 15 8:00PM THURSDAY 13 9:30PM SATURDAY 22 8:00PM SUNDAY 16 9:00PM SATURDAY 15 11:00PM SUNDAY 23 2:00PM TUESDAY 18 5:30PM SUNDAY 16 4:30PM THURSDAY 20 10:30PM WEDNESDAY 19 6:00PM SATURDAY 22 3:30PM THURSDAY 20 7:30PM SUNDAY 23 6:30PM SATURDAY 22 9:30PM
10 11 VENUE 3 170 Academic Hall Ingenue: Deanna 2084 Night Feed Timmy, the Dog, Fuckboys The Musical Happy Birthday, Plan B Productions / Ottawa, ON Canvas Sky Theatre / Toronto, ON Generation Productions / Orlando, USA Durbin, Judy Garland by Andrew Alexander by Sarah Joy Bennett & Ginette Mohr Disappears by Savannah Cassidy Pedersen Claire! Black Sheep Theatre / Ottawa, ON Cardinal Theatre / Toronto, ON and the Golden Age 60 MIN / PLAY / 14+ 60 MIN / PLAY / 14+ 60 MIN / MUSICAL / M COMEDY, SCI-FI PUPPET by Martin Dockery COMEDY, DRAMA by Valerie Cardinal of Hollywood 60 MIN / PLAY / 14+ 60 MIN / PLAY / PG Melanie Gall Presents / St. Albert, AB COMEDY, DRAMA, SATIRE COMEDY, SCI-FI by Melanie Gall 60 MIN / MUSICAL / PG SOLO, HISTORICAL
“We interrupt this daycycle with an important As an exhausted new mother nurses in the Karaoke night, every Wednesday, with update from the Ministry of Truth regarding dark of yet another night, her apartment your best friends in the world. What could the explosion in Hallway 17-A. comes to life; possessions possessed with A brand new comedy from Fringe master possibly mess that up? You guessed it: Claire’s birthday wish is for everyone to the demons of fear, self-doubt and anxiety, Martin Dockery (Inescapable, Moonlight fuckboys. An epidemic truly sweeping the forget she’s turning 25 - but her sister is Everything is fi ne. a chorus of objects and body parts. You after Midnight, Paco V. Put to Sleep) about nation, fuckboys are “literal garbage and determined to change her mind with the family relationships, facing our fears, and best surprise party ever! Who doesn’t Judy is an icon, loved as Dorothy in Oz. But Citizens with information on this incident know, standard parenting stuff. With object must be stopped!” losing track of a beloved friend. love a good birthday party? Nobody, that’s in the 1930s, Deanna was a much bigger star. are ordered to report to sector 101 at their puppetry, physical theatre and stunning In this hilarious one-act musical, four who. Everybody loves a good party. Even A favorite of Roosevelt, Churchill and even earliest convenience, or face summary design by CLUNK Puppet Lab, this hilarious “Wicked, dark, and very funny” Mussolini, at 27 she left the screen for a life fever dream explores the grief and gratitude women will teach you the skills you need to people not from this Earth. Even people clone line termination.” take down the post dangerous predators in of obscurity in France. Ingenue tells the true of early parenthood. FRIDAY 14 6:00PM who’ve come to this Earth to conquer A brave new work from the producers of today’s modern dating scene. Don’t miss it. it. Who doesn’t love to conquer a good tale of the lifelong friendship – and rivalry – SUNDAY 16 7:30PM of these two idols of Old Hollywood. Starring the critically-acclaimed #faustus. FRIDAY 14 10:30PM party? Happy birthday, Claire. TUESDAY 18 9:00PM THURSDAY 13 8:00PM Melanie Gall, from Fringe hit Piaf and Brel. www.coffeefromhell.com SATURDAY 15 7:30PM THURSDAY 20 10:30PM SATURDAY 15 9:00PM THURSDAY 13 6:30PM “An unforgettable delight,” CBC MONDAY 17 8:00PM FRIDAY 14 9:00PM FRIDAY 21 7:30PM MONDAY 17 9:30PM SATURDAY 15 11:00PM THURSDAY 20 6:00PM SUNDAY 16 9:00PM SATURDAY 15 4:30PM SATURDAY 22 11:00PM WEDNESDAY 19 8:30PM SUNDAY 16 4:30PM SATURDAY 22 3:00PM MONDAY 17 6:30PM SUNDAY 16 6:00PM FRIDAY 21 10:30PM WEDNESDAY 19 7:00PM SUNDAY 23 6:30PM TUESDAY 18 7:30PM WEDNESDAY 19 10:30PM SATURDAY 22 4:30PM FRIDAY 21 9:00PM WEDNESDAY 19 5:30PM SATURDAY 22 9:30PM Ludwig(a) SUNDAY 23 5:00PM FRIDAY 21 6:00PM SUNDAY 23 3:30PM Bone Witch Productions / Ottawa, ON SUNDAY 23 2:00PM by Adam Linton & Gwyneth Orr GoFundYourself 60 MIN / PLAY / PG COMEDY, HISTORICAL JULY 3–14, 2019 Worldly Women Black Box Comedy / Ottawa, ON DANCE FACHIN / Toronto, ON by Black Box Comedy by Dance Fachin 60 MIN / SKETCH / M $13 TICKETS 60 MIN / DANCE / PG COMEDY, IMPROV DRAMA THEATRE/MUSIC/COMEDY
Mad King Ludwig was notorious for his grand castles, queer lifestyle and enigmatic death. Empress Elisabeth of Austria was a Laughs are currency so MAKE IT RAIN!! Bavarian belle dramatically assassinated. We are the chain-smoking women of Berlin GoFundYourself is a sketch and improv What inspired these two as young people? with face tattoos standing as an emblem of comedy show that re-imagines what Ludwig(a) is a fi ctional take on the friendship the free and rebellious. We are the women it means to be a supportive audience. between a young King and Empress, diving of rural Jordan draped from head to toe Kickstart your curiosity as we crowdfund into Europe’s buried queer and feminist in sacred scarves, the women that have inspiration and reward you, our generous history. Teenage dreams and drag queens th C Bavaria! to be indoors by 6pm in India and women backers, with a unique experience fi lled with set in 19 zany characters and lots of laughs!! Help us who use their femininity to gain power in SATURDAY 15 1:30PM New York City. What does it mean to be reach our goal of leaving you entertained! a free woman? Challenge perception and SATURDAY 22 1:30PM celebrate females in Worldly Women! THURSDAY 13 10:00PM SATURDAY 15 6:00PM FRIDAY 14 7:30PM SUNDAY 16 3:00PM SATURDAY 15 3:00PM TUESDAY 18 10:30PM SUNDAY 16 10:30PM THURSDAY 20 7:30PM TUESDAY 18 6:00PM SATURDAY 22 8:00PM FRINGETORONTO.COM THURSDAY 20 9:00PM SATURDAY 22 6:30PM
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No More Secrets Get Well Soon Entangled The Win At Life Pack Animals ExDEMONators Spare Change Theatre / Ottawa, ON Hamda Elmi / Ottawa, ON Quantum Productions / Almonte, ON Holly Brinkman / Victoria, BC Leaping Mammal Collective / Ottawa, ON by Spare Change Theatre by Hamda Elmi by Jacob Berkowitz Mega Expo by Holly M Brinkman & S.E Grummett by Leaping Mammal Collective Four Door Ford / Toronto, ON 60 MIN / PLAY / M 60 MIN / PLAY / PG 60 MIN / PLAY / G 60 MIN / PLAY / 14+ 60 MIN / PLAY / 14+ DRAMA, DOCUMENTARY THEATRE DRAMA DRAMA by Faisal Butt, Amish Patel & Morgan O’shea COMEDY, CLOWN, PUPPET, MUSICAL, PHYSICAL COMEDY, PUPPET, HORROR 60 MIN / STORYTELLING / G COMEDY, DRAMA, FAMILY
Over the span of three decades, three An insight into the mind of four young On his deathbed, Nobel Prize-winning Ever been to summer camp? Something strange in your neighborhood? different teachers at Ottawa’s Bell High women as they navigate through their inner quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli gasped (whoops. ignore that) Something weird Took a shit in the woods and wiped using School preyed on students. No More Secrets thoughts and troubles in an attempt to get one last word: Jung! The great psychoana- Want to live the life you have always and it don’t... (ah crap... we mean) Do you is a new documentary theatre piece that well soon. While discussing a range of issues, lyst Carl Jung had built his dream theories dreamed of? Need help staying motivated? pages from your guidebook? have demons? Do you need help? Who Join us at the Win At Life Mega Expo where tells the story. Created by Ottawa high this play explores themes of mental health using 100s of Pauli’s dreams. Yet why Speared the patriarchy on a hot dog stick you gonna call? (DAMN IT!! … uh…) Call our accomplished speakers will give you school students with the help of Julie Ireton, with humour and sincerity. hadn’t Jung visited his dying friend in a and toasted it over a roaring fi re? us: the ExDEMONators! The only Demon the investigative reporter who broke the Zurich hospital? A powerful play about the tips on Love, Health and Money. We Exterminators in Northern/Central rural story for CBC. FRIDAY 14 6:30PM essence of mind, matter and the greatest guarantee your life will be improved. After getting lost in the woods, a Woodpeck- Ontario. We can help bust them gho.. (...) (Individual results may vary.) SATURDAY 15 4:00PM mystery of all—love. Dir: Cathy Clark; Ft: er and a Beaver must set aside their differ- EXTERMINATE those DEMONS in no time! SATURDAY 15 1:00PM Paul Rainville & David Frisch. ences to fi nd their way home. JOIN US for Services soon to be certifi ed and legal. SUNDAY 16 9:30PM SUNDAY 16 8:00PM SATURDAY 22 1:00PM an adventure through the untamed forest of WEDNESDAY 19 8:00PM THURSDAY 13 10:30PM MONDAY 17 9:00PM sex, puppets, bushcraft...and campfi re songs! FRIDAY 14 9:30PM FRIDAY 21 11:00PM SATURDAY 15 7:00PM WEDNESDAY 19 6:30PM SATURDAY 15 5:30PM The Shape of a Girl THURSDAY 13 7:30PM SUNDAY 23 4:30PM SUNDAY 16 3:30PM THURSDAY 20 7:00PM MONDAY 17 7:30PM 1996 / Ottawa, ON SATURDAY 15 10:00PM by Joan MacLeod WEDNESDAY 19 9:30PM SATURDAY 22 10:00PM WEDNESDAY 19 11:00PM SUNDAY 16 6:30PM 60 MIN / PLAY / 14+ A Period Piece FRIDAY 21 6:30PM SUNDAY 23 3:00PM SATURDAY 22 7:00PM DRAMA Spicy Day / Ottawa, ON TUESDAY 18 8:30PM SUNDAY 23 7:30PM SUNDAY 23 1:30PM by Lauren Welchner & Monica Bradford-Lea THURSDAY 20 5:30PM 60 MIN / PLAY / 14+ SATURDAY 22 8:30PM COMEDY Quantum Calamity Aerial Antics / Ottawa, ON by Aerial Antics 60 MIN / PLAY / G COMEDY, SCI-FI, CIRCUS
After a violent bullying incident results in a murder, Braidie’s world is changed. With an absent brother, she must confront her past and who she has become. Braidie ponders “I heard if you use a tampon you if her and her friends are any different than lose your virginity” the teen accused. Is Braidie brave enough Let’s get personal. Join us for a wacky, to stand up to her friends’ when their embarrassing, and musical unpacking of bullying of a classmate takes a turn for What seems to be the problem, Offi cer? A our relationship with our vaginas and the the worst? Inspired by the murder of madcap trio of steampunk time travelers are things that come out of them. Reena Virk in 1997. unexpectedly caught up in the bureaucracy MIDSUMMER Described as “two local female performers of the spacetime continuum. With high-fl ying FRIDAY 14 8:00PM who have a very strong and defi ned acrobatics, stunning visual effects, and witty NIGHT'S SATURDAY 15 2:30PM perspective” (New Ottawa Critics), and comedy, Ottawa-based vertical theatre TUESDAY 18 7:00PM “side-splittingly funny” (Apt613), Spicy troupe Aerial Antics will delight and amaze in Day is back and bloodier than ever. this original, never-before-seen production. THURSDAY 20 10:00PM DREAM SATURDAY 22 2:30PM THURSDAY 13 6:00PM THURSDAY 13 9:00PM SUNDAY 23 6:00PM SATURDAY 15 8:30PM SUNDAY 16 5:00PM SUMMER 2019 MONDAY 17 10:30PM MONDAY 17 6:00PM THURSDAY 20 8:30PM TUESDAY 18 10:00PM FRIDAY 21 9:30PM FRIDAY 21 8:00PM SATURDAY 22 4:00PM SATURDAY 22 5:30PM
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Not: A Bev Oda Memoir Becoming Magic Mike: The Date Stick or Wizard? ARNOTT: a Masterclass Dammit, Jim! I’m a e308 / London, ON Phybee / Kanata, ON Eee! / London, UK by Clara Madrenas An Action Adventure by Phoebe Webber by Oli Weatherly in Good Theatring Comedienne, Not a FireFlood Entertainment / Ottawa, ON 60 MIN / MUSICAL / PG 60 MIN / MUSICAL / G 60 MIN / PLAY / G Comedy by Nicholas Aymott Doctor! COMEDY, SCI-FI, SOLO, POLITICAL SATIRE DK Reinemer / Portland, USA COMEDY, DRAMA COMEDY, CLOWN, SOLO Pollywood Productions / Toronto, ON 60 MIN / PLAY / M by DK Reinemer COMEDY, SOLO, INTENSIVE by Polly Esther 60 MIN / SKETCH / 14+ 60 MIN / STORYTELLING / 14+ COMEDY, SOLO, ACTION-ADVENTURE, PARODY COMEDY, SCI-FI, SOLO
In 2012, Member of Parliament Bev Oda Dating isn’t easy for women of a certain “A hilarious waste of time!” Gaulier-trained billed taxpayers $16 for orange juice at a age. Phoebe is going to give it one more clown, Oli Weatherly, invites you to take a poverty summit. In the dystopian future, chance. Buoyed by a love of romantic trip with him to meet two unusual guys; one, 6 days. 6 lessons. Award-swinging actor Niklaus teenager Bev Oda was arrested for civil opera, she is wondering if she is making a man who dreams of the ultimate freedom Arnott arrives in Ottawa to deliver his infamous Comedian DK Reinemer (Help! I’m masterclass in performance, and pass on a An innocent suggestion of watching Star Trek: disobedience and launched backwards American) brings his smokin’ hot, action/ the right decision. But first, she will ask – to be a Stick; the other, a Wizard. The Next Generation for the first time quickly through time, hell-bent on sabotage. her cats. “timeless” life of knowledge and experience to adventure comedy about a detective Part autobiography, part story telling, part the younger (at heart) generations. turned into obsessively delving into the Blending folk music, Canadiana, visual thrust deep undercover in the unfamiliar entire Star Trek universe. art and impossibly true stories, this sci-fi She won’t rush into anything or have pure idiocy. WINNER StageDoor Audience world of male stripping. He’s undercover, unrealistic expectations. Join Phoebe on Choice Award London ’18. LONDON SELL “Herr Arnott took our breath away, then satirical-political love story is the Heritage underdressed, and over the top. Can he gave it back to us, which was very polite.” Every series, season, & film. Minute you never knew you wanted. a musical journey in no way influenced by OUT SHOW, Wandsworth Fringe 2018 pull it off? her fear of the unknown. -- a Hyper-Ventilated Student Then came the Las Vegas convention. cccc LondonBox Office FRIDAY 14 5:30PM “Uproariously funny, fast-paced and “ccccc I left after the first 50 minutes.” These are the voyages of Polly Esther, her FRIDAY 14 8:30PM SATURDAY 15 9:30PM action-packed piece of rock-solid gold THURSDAY 13 10:00PM - Jimmi Mortpan mission to explore this strange new world, entertainment” - Cult MTL SATURDAY 15 11:00PM SUNDAY 16 7:00PM SATURDAY 15 6:30PM & how it has helped her boldly go forward “Outstanding Artist Award” MONDAY 17 7:00PM FRIDAY 14 10:00PM in her journey as a recovering alcoholic. WEDNESDAY 19 10:30PM SUNDAY 16 2:30PM - Calgary Fringe 2017 WEDNESDAY 19 9:00PM SATURDAY 15 8:00PM SATURDAY 22 6:00PM WEDNESDAY 19 7:30PM THURSDAY 13 8:30PM FRIDAY 21 5:30PM SUNDAY 16 4:00PM SUNDAY 23 2:30PM SUNDAY 16 8:30PM THURSDAY 20 9:30PM SATURDAY 15 2:00PM SATURDAY 22 10:30PM THURSDAY 20 8:00PM MONDAY 17 10:00PM SATURDAY 22 3:30PM FRIDAY 21 7:00PM SUNDAY 16 5:30PM TUESDAY 18 8:00PM SATURDAY 22 2:00PM TUESDAY 18 9:30PM THURSDAY 20 6:30PM A Modest Attempt THURSDAY 20 11:00PM SATURDAY 22 7:30PM Modest Company / Ottawa, ON SATURDAY 22 9:00PM by Darcy Smith Scaredy Cat SUNDAY 23 1:00PM Squirrel Suit Productions / Hamilton, ON 60 MIN / PLAY / 14+ COMEDY, CLOWN, DRAMA, SOLO by Carlyn Rhamey 60 MIN / STORYTELLING / 14+ COMEDY Did you know Ottawa Fringe
The Internet is vast and full of talent. is a registered Have you ever tried something? Did you succeed? Did you fail? How were you Award-winning storyteller Carlyn Rhamey not-for-profit affected? Watch as Darcy gives his all to (SAOR, The ADHD Project) returns with new take on the Internet in a competition for comedic tales of being afraid…of every- your attention! Will he succeed? Will he thing. Scary movies, haunted houses, the charity? fail? Will his modest attempt affect you... ocean, everything in the ocean, everything in the water, her job, wrinkles, glitter, Sweet, sweet, FRIDAY 14 7:00PM sleepovers, dinosaurs, cheese graters, first graders, the cover of Goosebumps novels SATURDAY 15 5:00PM and…her mother. tax receipts! MONDAY 17 8:30PM WEDNESDAY 19 6:00PM “A ONE-WOMAN THEATRICAL HURRICANE” View Magazine OTTAWAFRINGE.COM/SUPPORT FRIDAY 21 10:00PM SUNDAY 23 5:30PM THURSDAY 13 7:00PM SATURDAY 15 3:30PM SUNDAY 16 10:00PM TUESDAY 18 6:30PM FRIDAY 21 8:30PM SUNDAY 23 4:00PM
16 17 VENUE 1 VENUE 2 VENUE 3 VENUE 4 VENUE 5 BYOV A BYOV B BYOV C BYOV D Arts Court ODD Box Academic Hall LabO Studio 1201 Knox Presbyterian - Knox Presbyterian - Studio 2201 Arts Court Library Theatre Geneva Hall Sanctuary 13 6:00PM Pinter Stew 6:30PM Tornado Troubles 6:30PM Happy Birthday, Claire! 6:00PM A Period Piece 7:00PM Scaredy Cat 5:00PM The Royal Flush 6:30PM Olive 7:00PM THE WALK IN THE SNOW 13 THURS 7:30PM ...Most Unfeeling Doctor... 8:00PM Suitcase of Wonders 8:00PM Fuckboys The Musical 7:30PM Pack Animals 8:30PM Dammit, Jim!... 7:00PM Skirts in the Forest 8:00PM ...Skyler James 8:30PM 52 Pickup THURS 9:00PM The Key to Time Travel 9:30PM Perfect Date 10:00PM GoFundYourself 9:00PM Quantum Calamity 10:00PM Stick or Wizard? 8:30PM Jimmy? 9:30PM My Good Friend Jay 10:00PM I Think I'm Dead 10:30PM Destiny, USA 10:30PM Entangled 10:00PM Who's Your Mommy? 14 6:30PM Beneath the Bikini 7:00PM The Last President... 6:00PM Timmy, the Dog, Disappears 6:30PM Get Well Soon 5:30PM Not: A Bev Oda Memoir 5:30PM Jimmy? 8:00PM The Knitting Pilgrim 7:30PM My Good Friend Jay 7:30PM THE WALK IN THE SNOW 14 FRI 8:00PM 2 Sherlock Holmes... 8:30PM Beyond The Pale 7:30PM Worldly Women 8:00PM The Shape of a Girl 7:00PM A Modest Attempt 7:00PM Who's Your Mommy? 9:00PM ...Skyler James 9:00PM I Think I'm Dead FRI 9:30PM ...Pet Emergency 10:00PM Beans of Fury 9:00PM 2084 9:30PM ExDEMONators 8:30PM The Date 8:30PM Skirts in the Forest 10:30PM Olive 10:30PM 52 Pickup 10:30PM Night Feed 10:00PM ARNOTT: a Masterclass... 10:00PM The Royal Flush 15 1:00PM ...Pet Emergency 2:00PM The Last President... 1:30PM Ludwig(a) 1:00PM No More Secrets 2:00PM Dammit, Jim!... 2:00PM Skirts in the Forest 3:30PM The Knitting Pilgrim 3:00PM ...Skyler James 5:30PM 52 Pickup 15 SAT 3:00PM Beneath the Bikini 3:30PM Suitcase of Wonders 3:00PM Worldly Women 2:30PM The Shape of a Girl 3:30PM Scaredy Cat 7:00PM THE WALK IN THE SNOW SAT 4:30PM 2 Sherlock Holmes... 5:00PM Beans of Fury 4:30PM 2084 4:00PM Get Well Soon 5:00PM A Modest Attempt 8:30PM I Think I'm Dead 6:00PM The Key to Time Travel 6:30PM Beyond The Pale 6:00PM GoFundYourself 5:30PM ExDEMONators 6:30PM Stick or Wizard? 7:30PM Destiny, USA 8:00PM Babel On 7:30PM Night Feed 7:00PM Entangled 8:00PM ARNOTT: a Masterclass... 6:30PM The Royal Flush 7:30PM Olive 9:00PM Pinter Stew 9:30PM Tornado Troubles 9:00PM Fuckboys The Musical 8:30PM A Period Piece 9:30PM Not: A Bev Oda Memoir 8:30PM Who's Your Mommy? 9:00PM My Good Friend Jay 10:30PM ...Most Unfeeling Doctor... 11:00PM Perfect Date 11:00PM Happy Birthday, Claire! 10:00PM Pack Animals 11:00PM The Date 2:00PM Pinter Stew 3:00PM Beans of Fury 3:00PM GoFundYourself 3:30PM Entangled 2:30PM Stick or Wizard? 2:30PM The Royal Flush 7:00PM The Knitting Pilgrim 6:00PM My Good Friend Jay 4:00PM THE WALK IN THE SNOW 16 ARNOTT: a Master- 16 SUN 3:30PM The Key to Time Travel 4:30PM Perfect Date 4:30PM Happy Birthday, Claire! 5:00PM Quantum Calamity 4:00PM class... 4:30PM Skirts in the Forest 7:30PM Olive 5:30PM Magnificence SUN 5:00PM ...Most Unfeeling Doctor... 6:00PM Suitcase of Wonders 6:00PM 2084 6:30PM Pack Animals 5:30PM Dammit, Jim!... 6:00PM Who's Your Mommy? 7:00PM 52 Pickup 6:30PM ...Pet Emergency 7:30PM Bat Brains... 7:30PM Timmy, the Dog, Disappears 8:00PM The Win At LIfe... 7:00PM Not: A Bev Oda Memoir 7:30PM Jimmy? 8:30PM I Think I'm Dead 8:30PM Beneath the Bikini 9:00PM Babel On 9:00PM Ingenue... 9:30PM Get Well Soon 8:30PM Becoming Magic Mike... 10:00PM LIGHTS! CAMERA! ODD JOBS? 10:30PM The Last President... 10:30PM Worldly Women 10:00PM Scaredy Cat 17 6:00PM Destiny, USA 7:00PM Beyond The Pale 6:30PM Ingenue... 6:00PM Quantum Calamity 7:00PM The Date 17 MON 7:30PM LIGHTS! CAMERA! ODD JOBS? 8:30PM Bat Brains... 8:00PM Night Feed 7:30PM ExDEMONators 8:30PM A Modest Attempt MON 9:00PM 2 Sherlock Holmes... 10:00PM Tornado Troubles 9:30PM Fuckboys The Musical 9:00PM The Win At LIfe... 10:00PM Becoming Magic Mike... 10:30PM A Period Piece 18 6:00PM ...Pet Emergency 5:30PM Babel On 6:00PM Worldly Women 7:00PM The Shape of a Girl 6:30PM Scaredy Cat 6:30PM THE WALK IN THE SNOW 18 TUES 8:00PM Pinter Stew 7:00PM Beans of Fury 7:30PM Ingenue... 8:30PM Pack Animals 8:00PM Becoming Magic Mike... 8:00PM 52 Pickup TUES 9:30PM The Key to Time Travel 8:30PM The Last President... 9:00PM Timmy, the Dog, Disappears 10:00PM Quantum Calamity 9:30PM Dammit, Jim!... 9:30PM Magnificence 10:00PM Bat Brains... 10:30PM GoFundYourself 19 6:30PM LIGHTS! CAMERA! ODD JOBS? 6:00PM Perfect Date 5:30PM Ingenue... 6:30PM The Win At LIfe... 6:00PM A Modest Attempt 7:00PM Who's Your Mommy? 6:00PM The Knitting Pilgrim 7:00PM Olive 5:30PM Magnificence 19 WED 8:00PM ...Most Unfeeling Doctor... 7:30PM Tornado Troubles 7:00PM Happy Birthday, Claire! 8:00PM Get Well Soon 7:30PM Stick or Wizard? 8:30PM Jimmy? 8:30PM My Good Friend Jay 7:00PM THE WALK IN THE SNOW WED 9:30PM Destiny, USA 9:00PM Suitcase of Wonders 8:30PM Fuckboys The Musical 9:30PM Entangled 9:00PM The Date 10:00PM ...Skyler James 8:30PM I Think I'm Dead 11:00PM Beneath the Bikini 10:30PM Beyond The Pale 10:30PM 2084 11:00PM ExDEMONators 10:30PM Not: A Bev Oda Memoir 20 5:30PM 2 Sherlock Holmes... 6:00PM Bat Brains... 6:00PM Night Feed 5:30PM Pack Animals 6:30PM Becoming Magic Mike... 5:30PM Who's Your Mommy? 8:00PM The Knitting Pilgrim 7:30PM ...Skyler James 6:30PM I Think I'm Dead 20 THURS 7:00PM ...Most Unfeeling Doctor... 7:30PM Perfect Date 7:30PM GoFundYourself 7:00PM The Win At LIfe... 8:00PM ARNOTT: a Masterclass... 7:00PM Skirts in the Forest 9:00PM Olive 8:00PM Magnificence THURS 8:30PM LIGHTS! CAMERA! ODD JOBS? 9:00PM The Last President... 9:00PM Worldly Women 8:30PM A Period Piece 9:30PM Stick or Wizard? 8:30PM Jimmy? 10:30PM My Good Friend Jay 9:30PM 52 Pickup 10:00PM ...Pet Emergency 10:30PM Babel On 10:30PM Timmy, the Dog, Disappears 10:00PM The Shape of a Girl 11:00PM Dammit, Jim!... 21 6:00PM Destiny, USA 6:30PM Tornado Troubles 6:00PM Ingenue... 6:30PM Entangled 5:30PM The Date 5:30PM Skirts in the Forest 8:00PM The Knitting Pilgrim 7:30PM My Good Friend Jay 5:30PM 52 Pickup 21 FRI 7:30PM The Key to Time Travel 8:00PM Beans of Fury 7:30PM Timmy, the Dog, Disappears 8:00PM Quantum Calamity 7:00PM ARNOTT: a Masterclass... 7:00PM Jimmy? 9:00PM ...Skyler James 7:00PM Magnificence FRI 9:00PM 2 Sherlock Holmes... 9:30PM Bat Brains... 9:00PM Happy Birthday, Claire! 9:30PM A Period Piece 8:30PM Scaredy Cat 8:30PM Who's Your Mommy? 10:30PM Olive 8:30PM THE WALK IN THE SNOW 10:30PM Pinter Stew 11:00PM Suitcase of Wonders 10:30PM Fuckboys The Musical 11:00PM Get Well Soon 10:00PM A Modest Attempt 10:00PM The Royal Flush 10:00PM I Think I'm Dead 22 2:30PM 2 Sherlock Holmes... 3:30PM Babel On 1:30PM Ludwig(a) 1:00PM No More Secrets 2:00PM ARNOTT: a Masterclass... 2:00PM Jimmy? 6:30PM The Knitting Pilgrim 3:00PM Olive 4:30PM THE WALK IN THE SNOW 22 SAT 4:00PM ...Most Unfeeling Doctor... 5:00PM Tornado Troubles 3:00PM Night Feed 2:30PM The Shape of a Girl 3:30PM Stick or Wizard? 6:00PM I Think I'm Dead SAT 5:30PM Destiny, USA 6:30PM The Last President... 4:30PM Fuckboys The Musical 4:00PM A Period Piece 6:00PM Not: A Bev Oda Memoir 5:00PM The Royal Flush 6:30PM My Good Friend Jay 7:30PM 52 Pickup 7:00PM Beneath the Bikini 8:00PM Beyond The Pale 6:30PM Worldly Women 5:30PM Quantum Calamity 7:30PM Becoming Magic Mike... 7:00PM Who's Your Mommy? 8:00PM ...Skyler James 9:00PM Magnificence 8:30PM ...Pet Emergency 9:30PM Perfect Date 8:00PM GoFundYourself 7:00PM ExDEMONators 9:00PM Dammit, Jim!... 8:30PM Skirts in the Forest 10:30PM LIGHTS! CAMERA! ODD JOBS? 11:00PM Beans of Fury 9:30PM 2084 8:30PM Pack Animals 10:30PM The Date 11:00PM Timmy, the Dog, Disappears 10:00PM The Win At LIfe... 23 1:00PM The Key to Time Travel 2:00PM Beyond The Pale 2:00PM Ingenue... 1:30PM ExDEMONators 1:00PM Becoming Magic Mike... 2:30PM The Royal Flush 1:30PM I Think I'm Dead 23 SUN 2:30PM LIGHTS! CAMERA! ODD JOBS? 3:30PM Bat Brains... 3:30PM 2084 3:00PM The Win At LIfe... 2:30PM Not: A Bev Oda Memoir 4:30PM Who's Your Mommy? 3:00PM Magnificence SUN 4:30PM Beneath the Bikini 5:00PM Suitcase of Wonders 5:00PM Happy Birthday, Claire! 4:30PM Get Well Soon 4:00PM Scaredy Cat 4:30PM 52 Pickup 6:00PM Pinter Stew 6:30PM Babel On 6:30PM Night Feed 6:00PM The Shape of a Girl 5:30PM A Modest Attempt 6:00PM THE WALK IN THE SNOW 7:30PM Entangled 7:30PM BEST OF FEST 8:00PM BEST OF FEST 8:30PM BEST OF FEST 9:00PM BEST OF FEST 7:00PM BEST OF FEST
18 19 BYOV A 100 BYOV B 100 Knox Knox Presbyterian - Presbyterian - Geneva Hall Sanctuary The Royal Flush Skirts in the Forest Who’s Your Mommy? Jimmy? The Knitting Pilgrim Wild Hart Productions / Ottawa, ON Dangerous Dames Theatre / Ottawa, ON Crowning Monkey / Ottawa, ON Another One / Ottawa, ON Ergo Arts Theatre / Toronto, ON by Kate Jaimet by Becky McKercher & Sarah Thuswaldner by Rachelle Elie by Cullen McGrail by Kirk Dunn Did you know 90 MIN / PLAY / 14+ 60 MIN / PLAY / 14+ 60 MIN / STAND-UP / M 60 MIN / PLAY / PG 90 MIN / PLAY / PG COMEDY COMEDY, DRAMA, COMEDY, SOLO DRAMA, THRILLER DRAMA, SOLO, TEXTILE INSTALLATION SHAKESPEAREAN BUFFOONERY that Countries Shaped Like Stars, which premiered at the Two sisters inherit a cabin in the woods “Elie could easily have been the love child In the world of organized crime, loyalty The Knitting Pilgrim is a one-act interdisci- where their ne’er-do-well father may (or Four cross-dressing Shakespearean of Carol Burnett and Lenny Bruce.” and fear are what keeps a boss in power, plinary performance using theatre, image 2009 Ottawa may not) have stashed a fortune in casino heroines collide in the Forest of Lost Plots. - Show Score, NY. but they manifest in many different ways. projection and the remarkable Stitched winnings. A brazen intruder, a raging snow- They’re feisty, they’re fi ghting, they’re Alice Britt, your everyday home-grown Glass tapestries. The play, performed by storm, and an impromptu poker game lead directionally challenged, and Hamlet Award winning Comedian, Fringe veteran psychic, is brought to the penthouse of Kirk Dunn, recounts his fi fteen-year artistic Fringe, went on to a dizzying series of twists and turns keeps getting on their case. With only the & Rag Bag Cabaret Star Rachelle debuts the most dangerous man in America to and spiritual journey of hand-knitting the in this sidesplitting Canuck comedy by Complete Works of Shakespeare to guide her fi rst stand up comedy hour. Sex, Drugs clear the air about a man named Jimmy ambitious project, and his hope to contribute & teenage boys she tackles it all with to be performed award-winning writer and former Ottawa them, they have to navigate the tragedies and soon fi nds herself amidst a power to the vital conversation about xenophobia, comedy & glitter. Creator of Citizen journalist Kate Jaimet. without too much murder, mayhem, or S#!t I’m in Love struggle of these powers that be: natural interfaith strife and fear of the other. saying ‘Macbeth.’ With You Again. and otherwise. over 130 times THURSDAY 13 5:00PM FRIDAY 14 8:00PM WINNER: NTO’s Slowcooker Vol. 1 New Play ccccc Undeniably talented THURSDAY 13 8:30PM FRIDAY 14 10:00PM Reading Series - Happiest Medium SATURDAY 15 3:30PM in 16 different FRIDAY 14 5:30PM SATURDAY 15 6:30PM cccc Exquisite performer SUNDAY 16 7:00PM THURSDAY 13 7:00PM SUNDAY 16 2:30PM - Vue Weekly SUNDAY 16 7:30PM WEDNESDAY 19 6:00PM cities? FRIDAY 14 8:30PM FRIDAY 21 10:00PM WEDNESDAY 19 8:30PM THURSDAY 20 8:00PM SATURDAY 15 2:00PM THURSDAY 13 10:00PM SATURDAY 22 5:00PM THURSDAY 20 8:30PM FRIDAY 21 8:00PM SUNDAY 16 4:30PM FRIDAY 14 7:00PM SUNDAY 23 2:30PM FRIDAY 21 7:00PM SATURDAY 22 6:30PM THURSDAY 20 7:00PM SATURDAY 15 8:30PM SATURDAY 22 2:00PM FRIDAY 21 5:30PM SUNDAY 16 6:00PM SATURDAY 22 8:30PM WEDNESDAY 19 7:00PM THURSDAY 20 5:30PM FRIDAY 21 8:30PM SATURDAY 22 7:00PM SUNDAY 23 4:30PM
Ergo Arts Theatre presents THE KNITTING Can one man PILGRIM save the world… by Kirk Dunn with knitting? and Claire Ross Dunn
starring Kirk Dunn directed by Jennifer Tarver
BYOV – Knox Presbyterian Church – 120 Lisgar St
20 21 BYOV C 60 BYOV D 50 SPECIAL Studio 2201 Arts Court Free Olive: A Culinary Get Yourself Home My Good Friend Jay Library Programming Porcelain Bear Collective / Ottawa, ON Landscape Skyler James by Montana Adams Sarah Haley / Ottawa, ON The Precariat / Ottawa, ON FURTHER DETAILS AT 60 MIN / STORYTELLING / PG I Think I’m Dead 52 Pickup OTTAWAFRINGE.COM/EVENTS by Sarah Haley by Jordan Tannahill DRAMA, SOLO Al Lafrance / Vancouver, BC Blackbox Theatre Company / State College, USA 60 MIN / STORYTELLING / G 60 MIN / PLAY / 14+ by Al Lafrance by Katie Nixon SOLO, COOKING SHOW COMEDY, DRAMA, SOLO 60 MIN / STORYTELLING / 14+ 60 MIN / PLAY / 14+ Preview Night SOLO DRAMA, SOLO, DANCE, MUSICAL ARTS COURT THEATRE & STUDIO WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 7:00PM Need help deciding which shows you’re checking out at this year’s Fringe? Join us at Preview Night where performers have Sitting on the Ontario, Quebec and New two minutes to pitch their show. This event York State corners, a young Indian mulls A long time ago, my family grew up amongst Girl on the run from American military always fills up, get there early! Doors and bar on the border happenings in Akwesasne, open at 7:00pm. olive groves and remnants of antiquity. Now, finds herself up against a locked door in her home reserve. Not quite sovereign to Ever wonder what happens to your brain 52 Pickup is a one-woman show that explores all these years later, I am no longer sure what the basement of an Ottawa KFC. completion, yet still independent in its when you’re sleep-deprived? I Think I’m Dead what it’s like to cope with and overcome my connection is to that land so far away. With own right, her home has constantly faced is a maniacal monologue about an insomniac’s trauma. The story follows Katie as she comes OAG Tours little more than food to connect me, one of the THURSDAY 13 8:00PM political conundrums and questions that survivalist journey. From obsessing over to terms with her own traumatic incident and OTTAWA ART GALLERY only ways I can learn about my story is through FRIDAY 14 9:00PM attack its very nationhood - along with movies to attempting professional wrestling, relearns how to navigate the world with altered JUNE 15 & 23 recipes. It’s a cooking show with an identity SATURDAY 15 3:00PM her everyday life. with some near-death experiences in between, vision. Funny, hopeful, and emotional, this play crisis and free food. What’s not to love? this show is a non-stop storytelling thrillride portrays a journey that finds beauty from pain. WEDNESDAY 19 10:00PM Explore the Ottawa Art Gallery! THURSDAY 13 9:30PM unlike any other. Created & performed by 2x This hour long tour, led by one of OAG’s THURSDAY 13 6:30PM THURSDAY 20 7:30PM THURSDAY 13 8:30PM FRIDAY 14 7:30PM Just For Laughs Award-winner Al Lafrance. knowledgeable gallery educators, is the FRIDAY 14 10:30PM FRIDAY 21 9:00PM FRIDAY 14 10:30PM perfect between-show activity. SATURDAY 15 9:00PM THURSDAY 13 10:00PM SATURDAY 15 7:30PM SATURDAY 22 8:00PM SATURDAY 15 5:30PM SUNDAY 16 6:00PM FRIDAY 14 9:00PM SUNDAY 16 7:30PM SUNDAY 16 7:00PM WEDNESDAY 19 8:30PM SATURDAY 15 8:30PM Fringe Courtyard WEDNESDAY 19 7:00PM TUESDAY 18 8:00PM 67 NICHOLAS THURSDAY 20 10:30PM SUNDAY 16 8:30PM THURSDAY 20 9:00PM THURSDAY 20 9:30PM FRIDAY 21 7:30PM WEDNESDAY 19 8:30PM In between shows? Come hangout at the FRIDAY 21 10:30PM FRIDAY 21 5:30PM SATURDAY 22 6:30PM THURSDAY 20 6:30PM Fringe Courtyard. Unwind, grab a drink SATURDAY 22 3:00PM SATURDAY 22 7:30PM with your friends, and make new ones FRIDAY 21 10:00PM SUNDAY 23 4:30PM while enjoying some Ottawa-local art. SATURDAY 22 6:00PM SUNDAY 23 1:30PM THE WALK IN THE Sunday Morning Yoga Magnificence SNOW: the true story COURTYARD Doctor Keir Co. / Shawinigan, QC of Lise Meitner SUNDAY, JUNE 16 11:00AM by Keir Cutler big word performance / Finchampstead, UK Fringe is busy and can get stressful. Take this 60 MIN / STORYTELLING / PG by jem rolls moment to inhale and exhale. Both artists SOLO 60 MIN / STORYTELLING / 14+ and patrons are invited to do some free SOLO yoga outside in the renovated Courtyard. All-levels are welcome to this class. Bring your mat, water bottle and good energy! (un)told: original stories told live Keir Cutler, (Teaching Shakespeare) adapts COURTYARD his mother’s award-winning memoir from Physicist, fugitive, pioneer. SUNDAY, JUNE 16 7:30PM the Laurentians in the 1930s. “Simplicity On Christmas Eve 1938, two refugees from and goodness, stunningly exemplified!” This is a special Fringe edition of (un)told, the Nazis walk out into the Swedish snow. New York Times review in 1973. true tales presented by Ottawa Storytellers. Sat on a tree-trunk, they make a shocking scien- Some of your favourite Fringe artists will “Keir Cutler is a masterful entertainer!” tific discovery. And the world changes forever. be taking the stage to share their best and Winnipeg Free Press. From the creator of THE INVENTOR OF worst moments from Fringe, an event not “One hell of a storyteller!” Vue, Edmonton. ALL THINGS: ccccc CBC, ccccc to be missed! th Keir’s 10 Ottawa Fringe! Winnipeg Free Press ccccc Edmonton Directed by Paul Van Dyck winner of Montreal’s Journal, Best of Fest, Ottawa Fringe 2017 Closing Night “Revelation Award.” “I will have nothing to do with a bomb”. Awards Party SUNDAY 16 5:30PM THURSDAY 13 7:00PM ARTS COURT THEATRE & STUDIO TUESDAY 18 9:30PM FRIDAY 14 7:30PM SUNDAY, JUNE 23 10PM ‘TIL LATE WEDNESDAY 19 5:30PM SATURDAY 15 7:00PM THURSDAY 20 8:00PM Join artists, audiences, volunteers and SUNDAY 16 4:00PM staff as we say farewell to the 2019 Ottawa FRIDAY 21 7:00PM TUESDAY 18 6:30PM Fringe Festival. Raise a toast to award SATURDAY 22 9:00PM WEDNESDAY 19 7:00PM winners and stay up late for one last night. SUNDAY 23 3:00PM FRIDAY 21 8:30PM SATURDAY 22 4:30PM SUNDAY 23 6:00PM 22 23 Best of Fest "Dive, Swim, Skate, or Fly...but bring your helmet, it's going to be an Adventure" Sunday June 23 On closing night, the Festival’s Best of Fest winners will be best selling shows – one from announced online on Friday, each of the Fringe’s fi ve lottery June 21, with the performances venues – will stage a round of serving as a fundraiser for encore performances. the Ottawa Fringe. Studio 1201 7:00PM Arts Court Theatre 7:30PM www.prismaticfestival.com Sept 12-22 2019 Ottawa | Halifax ODD Box 8:00PM Academic Hall 8:30PM LabO 9:00PM
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BOLD and BRASH LAB o a FUNNY, ANGRY, VULGAR, Join our FRONT & CENTRE campaign by in the best way possible orlando sentinel and BRUTALLY HONEST show THU JUN 13 7:30 that’s as sharp as a supporting the Fringe in its mission to create SAT jun 15 10:00 newly-honed hatchet. Other ways you The Star Phoenix THE STAR PHOENIX an Ottawa culture scene that strives to make sun jun 16 6:30 can suppor t: TUE JUN 18 8:30 art accessible while supporting artists’ careers. EDMONTON JOURNAL THU JUN 20 5:30 SAT JUN 22 8:30 Our goal? To raise $10,000 - your gift will ensure that the VUE WEEKLY festival is able to run at its greatest capacity for artists and TOP UP patrons alike. Donation dollars fund our technical/ logistical YOUR TICKET This one’s easy! When buying support and additional festival programming. Fringe tickets online, you The Front & Centre campaign puts our incredible donors in the can top-up your purchase limelight as well! With perks that show our appreciation and with a gift. Donations greater celebrate your generosity. than $10 will receive a sweet, sweet tax receipt. The Perks $75 DONATION MAKE A ONE-TIME PERK: a photo of yourself or dedicate photo will be installed OR MONTHLY on our donor wall located next to the Arts Court Theatre DONATION box offi ce for one year! You will also receive a pair of limited You can do this any edition Fringe socks and tax receipt. time of year. $50 DONATION ottawafringe.com/support PERK: a photo of yourself or dedicate photo will be installed on our donor wall located next to the Arts Court Theatre SEE BEST OF box offi ce for one year! Tax receipt also included. FEST SHOWS $25 DONATION On closing night, six of the festival’s top-selling PERK: a pair of limited edition Fringe socks will be coming shows will stage encore your way! Tax receipt also included. performances. These are Fringe fundraisers, with box www.ottawafringe.com/support offi ce split 50/50 between the artist and the Festival. Registered charity no.897771721RR0001
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Dramaturgy and Criticism taught by theatre scholars & community practitioners
Indulge Your Dramatic Side Fringe Courtyard Whether it’s relaxing between shows, meeting friends to catch up, or a quick The Fringe Courtyard is home to the Downtown Rideau stage, Find us at: carleton.ca/english/drama-studies pit-stop to refuel on your theatre-binge day, where you can catch late night the Fringe Courtyard is the place to be. programming, and other free events throughout the festival. Located at 67 Nicholas, on the West side of Open weekdays from 5pm until Arts Court and short walk from our other late and at 4pm on weekends. venues, it is the place to share stories and ask Stop by before, between, and “What have you seen? What should I see?” after a day of Fringing.
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Imagine Explore Create PROGRAMS UNDERGRADUATE » Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting (BFA) » Honours BA in Theatre Mini-Fringers » Majors in Theatre • Administration Weekend Drama Camps • Education VENUE • Production Register your 4 to 12 year olds for an Ottawa Art • Theatre Studies unforgettable drama camp experience Gallery Studio » Minor in Theatre with the fun and talented teachers from 10 Daly Avenue GRADUATE the Ottawa School of Theatre. Camp runs DATES » MFA in Directing from 2:00 until 5:30pm on Saturdays and includes a performance by your Saturdays » MA with Thesis or with Thesis and Mini-Fringers at 5:00pm. June 15 & 22 Drop-off between Creative Project Space is limited, but we will reserve drop-in spots. 1:30 and 2:00pm Molière impromptu Cost is $10 per day. Register in advance to make sure Adapted and directed by Jean Stéphane Roy your kid gets in on the fun! COST Photo: Marianne Duval $10 per child or FREE for For more info or to register visit ottawafringe.com/parents 5 & 10-show pass holders
Department of Theatre VINTAGE STOCK THEATRE arts.uOttawa.ca/theatre 613-562-5761
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32 33 The Fringe Team Sponsors Managing Director Presenting Partners Kevin Waghorn Festival Director Patrick Gauthier Technical Director Ted Forbes Marketing & Communications Offi cer Venue Partners Amanda Logan Artistic Outreach & Development Coordinator Brittany Johnston Patrion & Client Services Manager Claudia Gutierrez Food & Drinks by Box Offi ce Captain Danielle Savoie Bar Managers Connor Price-Kelleher Laura Wheeler Program Artwork and Design Animal Haus Studio Technicians Media Partners Carolyn Barnes Fraser Mackinnon Joel Garrow John Terrion Josh Carroll Kevin DaPonte Sasha Hayashi Trevor Teo Community Partners Tristan-Olivier Breiding Board of Directors Chris Hannay Emma Baker Greer Brabazon Kirk Shannon Melissa Gruber Michelle Doody Ross May Ryan Gibson Sarah Mayangi Shawn Philip Hunsdale
Ottawa Fringe gratefully acknowledges contributions from:
Ottawa Fringe 2 Daly Avenue, suite 100 Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2 [email protected] 613-232-6162 ottawafringe.com *Information accurate at time of printing.
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