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What is the fringe festival all about? The fringe in my mind is about bringing a piece of work that is not mainstream. It is something that causes the audience to be part of the experience. It is simple and it is interactive.

Drama

Randy Rutherford is an accomplished artist and has made great contributions to many fringe festivals, including the Vancouver Fringe Festival in past years.

Comedy, Drama, Monologue - http://www.randyrutherford.net/

It's a boys have a penis, girls have a vagina kinda show.

This one man physical theatre show takes us to two different worlds – the Scrotum and the Uterus – two worlds that are preparing for plans to stay off complete destruction.

What can I say but LMFAO!

Comedy, Physical Theatre

So, lets talk about SEX...um...ok....

Most people find the subject of sex difficult to discuss about because it makes them feel uncomfortable. Subjects like sexual orientation other than heterosexual, masturbation and other sub-categories also make people shy and have trouble to speak out loud.

Comedy, Cabaret, Performance Art - http://www.sexedburlesque.com/

Lysergic acid diethylamide or LSD-25 is well known for its psychological effects which can include altered thinking processes, closed and open eye visuals, synesthesia, an altered sense of time and spiritual experiences and it all started with one Bike Trip...

Comedy, Drama, Monologue - http://www.martindockery.com

Many Fringe shows involve the performer breaking the fourth wall and addressing the audience or (gulp) moving into the audience and singling out people to engage.  This show will have you shouting things out and throwing things on the stage and enjoying every minute of being lied to, deceived and tricked.

All Ages - http://www.travisthemagician.ca/

Well. Well. Well.

Golgonoozans is a theatre company created by playwright William Ilan Rubel who studied English at Columbia University and is a current Ph.D. student at UBC. In The Time of The Dream Warrior is a premiere of a new play happening at the Vancouver Fringe.

Comedy, Opera, Satire, New Work

As a young boy on Vancouver Island during games of shinny, Ricky dreams of the NHL, imagines he’s Gretzky and hones his significant hockey skills with his three best goons.  Now they’re in high school and battling his own ego, peer pressure, his feelings around being adopted and his genetic predispositions, Rick attempts to navigate the various choices available to him and please his parents and his coach.

On a simple set depicting a locker room and equipped with a bench and some very effective lighting, director Angela Konrad leads Evan Frayne in a skillfully depicted series of scenes and...

Comedy, Drama, New Work - http://www.compassionatebone.com/

If opening night is anything to go by, Cameryn Moore already has a loyal Vancouver following.  Many I talked to loved her Phone Whore  2011 Fringe show.  

Comedy, Drama, Monologue - http://www.camerynmoore.com/

Expectation is the best friend of disappointment, and I would have been better served to check the former at the door. I thought, how can this be anything but awesome, with vaudeville influences, an opera trained singer doing jazz songs, all at the Revue stage? Although this play had its share of charms, ultimately I had a hard time with it.

Bremner Duthie plays The Chaser at a time when the last vaudeville theatre in America is being shut down. Very quickly in the show, he introduces the sage life advice of his long-past partner, Sally: “frivolity is the human...

Hard Times!

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