Vancouver

Drinks With Friends

Company:

Whirlwind Theatre Productions

Duration:

50 minutes

Venue:

Carousel Theatre

Photograph:

A darkly comic one-woman show about a betrayed friend, a conniving fern, and a 19 year old girl whose twisted journey brought them all together. Drop in on Elizabeth as she recounts her experiences with this crazy concept we call love - how it's found, how it's lost, and how it's butchered.

Showtimes

Sep 10 - 9:00 PM

Sep 11 - 11:00 PM

Sep 12 - 5:00 PM

Sep 13 - 3:00 PM

Sep 14 - 7:00 PM

Sep 15 - 11:00 PM

Sep 17 - 7:00 PM

Sep 18 - 9:00 PM

Sep 19 - 9:00 PM

Sep 20 - 5:00 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

The Gas Heart

Company:

Gas Heart Theatre

Duration:

60 minutes

Venue:

Carousel Theatre

Photograph:

How does the Oxford English Dictionary define "bootylicious"? Is Helvetica really a fascist typeface? Can I get an STD from unprotected twittering? Find horribly unscientific answers to these and more imperative questions of our time in a modern adaptation of a classic from the Dada movement. Aptly described by its author as "the greatest three act hoax of the century," The Gas Heart searches through the skivvies of our society to reveal the senselessness in our world today: politics, pop culture, and potato chips in 2009.

Showtimes

Sep 10 - 7:00 PM

Sep 11 - 5:00 PM

Sep 12 - 7:00 PM

Sep 13 - 9:00 PM

Sep 16 - 9:00 PM

Sep 17 - 11:00 PM

Sep 18 - 7:00 PM

Sep 19 - 7:00 PM

Sep 19 - 11:00 PM

Sep 20 - 3:00 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

The Saddest Girl in the World

Company:

Otherwise Productions

Duration:

60 minutes

Venue:

Carousel Theatre

Photograph:

****" - Winnipeg Sun "**** Teeninga accomplishes an impressive feat . . . She wrings actual suspense from her humanistic story, and displays a poet's gift . . . she holds our attention with her talent alone." - Winnipeg Free Press Two stories and ten characters interweave in this critically acclaimed, audience-loved, one-woman gem about immigration, ethnic tensions, and glittering jewels!

Showtimes
Sep 10 - 11:00 PM
Sep 11 - 9:00 PM
Sep 12 - 9:00 PM
Sep 13 - 5:00 PM
Sep 14 - 9:00 PM
Sep 15 - 7:00 PM
Sep 18 - 5:00 PM
Sep 19 - 3:00 PM
Sep 20 - 7:00 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

Pirates of Penzance (Abridged)

Company:

Arts Umbrella Musical Theatre Troupe

Duration:

60 minutes

Venue:

Arts Umbrella

Photograph:

Wacky, irreverent and as entertaining today as it was when it first opened in 1879, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE spins a hilarious musical farce of sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen, dim-witted young lovers, dewy-eyed daughters and an eccentric Major-General, all morally bound to the often-ridiculous dictates of honor and duty.

Showtimes

Sep 12 - 7:00 PM

Sep 13 - 5:00 PM
Sep 18 - 7:00 PM

Sep 20 - 3:00 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

1984

Company:

Company: Arts Umbrella Senior Theatre Troupe

Duration:

60 minutes

Venue:

Arts Umbrella

Photograph:

Ignorance is Strength; War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; All Hail Big Brother! A powerful depiction of a society where Big Brother

is always watching - where everything that is not prohibited is compulsory.

Showtimes

Sep 11 - 9:00 PM

Sep 13 - 3:00 PM

Sep 19 - 9:00 PM

Sep 20 - 5:00 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

Lavignia: A Modern Fairy Tale of Gigantic Proportions

Company:

Sticky Fingers Productions

Duration:

60 minutes

Venue:

Arts Umbrella

Photograph:

One giant girl. One huge dream. One massive adventure. From the artists who brought you last year's Pick of the Fringe hit, The Shakespeare Show, comes this puppet-ational, inspirational, and heartwarming tale about a girl who just wants to dance. "*****!" - Winnipeg Free Press "There are few things funnier than Tara Travis and Ryan Gladstone." - Plank Magazine "Wildly funny, wonderfully crafted, and brilliantly acted. Flawless!" - CBC. Starring Tara Travis with direction and dramaturgy from Fringe superstar Ryan Gladstone.

Showtimes
Sep 11 - 7:00 PM
Sep 12 - 9:00 PM
Sep 13 - 1:00 PM
Sep 13 - 7:00 PM
Sep 18 - 9:00 PM
Sep 19 - 7:00 PM
Sep 20 - 1:00 PM
Sep 20 - 7:00 PM

Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

Jullanar of the Sea

Company:

Naomi Steinberg

Duration:

50 minutes

Venue:

Amphitheatre

Photograph:

Once, a mysterious woman became a King's favorite. Their son desired an underwater Princess and when the land Prince and water Princess met on an island under the full moon, they immediately fell in love. But there was a terrible misunderstanding. The Princess cursed the Prince (turning him into a pretty bird) and he then had a VERY eventful journey home. In the end, the Prince and Princess lived together happily ever after.

How'd it all happen, you ask? Come listen and find out!

Showtimes

Sep 11 - 8:00 PM

Sep 12 - 8:30 PM

Sep 13 - 2:00 PM

Sep 13 - 7:00 PM

Sep 16 - 8:00 PM*

Sep 17 - 8:00 PM

Sep 18 - 8:00 PM

Sep 19 - 2:00 PM

Sep 19 - 8:00 PM

Sep 20 - 7:00 PM

*half-price

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

SHINE: terrific entertainment rises above shortcomings

Vancouver: I got to the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island a little tipsy on white wine and with meat still stuck between my teeth from dinner. Somehow, it seemed a fitting state to take in a burlesque musical.

SHINE these two look like they're having fun.

August 16th, 2009 · By Maryse Zeidler

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Dances for a Small Stage 21: from nutcracking to polemics

Vancouver: Dances for a Small Stage 21 proved to be another strong and eclectic installment in the wildly popular dance series.

Dances for a Small Stage 21

August 14th, 2009 · By Kirstie McCallum

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Bollywood Wedding: fabulous counterpoint

Vancouver: Powered by ecstatic dance, saturated with colour, and exquisitely staged, Bollywood Wedding is a unique midsummer spectacle. Featuring twenty-four dancers, thirteen actors, a full band, and three individual musicians, it was not only colourful but also a busy affair.