Vancouver

A Man, a Magic, a Music

[img_assist|nid=327|title=A Man, a Magic, a Music|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Movin' Melvin Brown
Duration: 75 minutes
Granville Island Stage

Magical journey through Black Music history 50's-90's, in Song, Tap & Clogging, Comedy, Characters & Story! Songs of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Chubby Checker, Otis Redding, Temptations and more… “performed so you think the original artist stands before you...Brown is a one man concert!” *****the Scotsman, UK – Characters like: the 'Black Preacher', James Brown, the “music box dancer”, BoJangles... Sold out in Edinburgh, Edmonton, Adelaide... *****Scotsman, UK

Showtimes

Sep 5 - 4:45 PM
Sep 7 - 9:15 PM
Sep 8 - 8:15 PM
Sep 13 - 1:15 PM
Sep 14 - 9:15 PM

For more information, magic yourself here.

Read the Plank Review.

Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

The Green Zone

[img_assist|nid=325|title=The Green Zone|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Jolene Baillie / Gearshifting Performance Works
Duration: 75 minutes
Waterfront Theatre

Fringe Favourite and seasoned performer, Jolene Bailie presents provocative, edgy work and award-winning choreography. Featuring The Green Zone by Montreal’s Deborah Dunn, and Jolene’s signature work, Switchback. Six national tours, a recent run in New York City, four and five star reviews across the country, sold out in Edmonton, "Best of Fest" Winnipeg, 2007. Dance that lives to reveal. gearshifting.org

Showtimes

Sep 5 - 4:30 PM
Sep 7 - 8:45 PM
Sep 8 - 5:30 PM
Sep 10 - 10:30 PM
Sep 13 - 1:30 PM
Sep 14 - 9:00 PM

For more information get yourself into this zone.

Read the Plank Review here.

Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

The Mechanical Bride

[img_assist|nid=323|title=The Mechanical Bride|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Gas Heart Theatre
Duration: 60 minutes
Carousel Theatre

A fairy tale for the Facebook generation, The Mechanical Bride explores technology's effect on how we communicate with one another: what do we stand to gain from an ever shrinking world, and what gets lost amongst the ones and zeroes? A gadget-obsessed guide leads Everyman and Everywoman through a future Garden of Eden, where remnants of twentieth century technology have fused and taken on a life of their own.

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 11:00 PM
Sep 5 - 9:00 PM
Sep 6 - 9:00 PM
Sep 7 - 5:00 PM
Sep 8 - 9:00 PM
Sep 9 - 7:00 PM
Sep 10 - 11:00 PM
Sep 12 - 5:00 PM
Sep 13 - 3:00 PM
Sep 14 - 7:00 PM

Read the Plank Magazine review from the Victoria Fringe here. 

Read the Plank Magazine review from the Vancouver Fringe here.

Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

A Very Trivial Pursuit!

[img_assist|nid=321|title=A Very Trivial Pursuit!|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Birdz of a Feather
Duration: 60 minutes
The Gym at FCCC

Oh for God’s sake! The things you have to put up with on a speedy low budget quest for the Almighty - a randy Arab, a sore throat, a sandy vagina, a brace of rats and a bit of a highland fling. Join Bic, Triv and Flo (Laurie Brazzill, Jane Noble, Helen Morrissey) as they boldly go where no show has gone before. “Absolutely hilarious! I lapped it up.” * * * * Laurie’s dog.

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 10:15 PM
Sep 6 - 7:15 PM
Sep 7 - 10:30 PM
Sep 10 - 8:45 PM
Sep 12 - 11:00 PM
Sep 14 - 7:00 PM

For more information, fly here.

Read the Plank Review.

Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

Wanted, If Not Wed

[img_assist|nid=319|title=Wanted, If Not Wed|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Zinnia Productions
Duration: 60 minutes
Waterfront Theatre

She's beyond the marrying age and there's not a man in sight. Find out whether it's better to jump into the mating game or get stuck being the Old Maid in this funny and poignant new solo show. Gillespie combines interviews with real people, personal narrative and excerpts from Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, to create a unique new comedy about single women. "A thoughtful and well-acted show…, Gillespie is capable of many moving and unsettling moments." - CBC Manitoba

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 10:00 PM
Sep 6 - 1:30 PM
Sep 8 - 8:00 PM
Sep 11 - 6:45 PM
Sep 13 - 7:00 PM
Sep 14 - 3:30 PM

Read the Plank Review

Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

Report to an Academy

[img_assist|nid=317|title=Report to an Academy|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Matias Hacker
Duration: 55 minutes
Playwrights Theatre Centre

This one man play is an adaptation of Kafka's story of Red Peter, a captured ape who realizes that the only way to stay out of the zoo is to become human enough to perform as an ape-turned-human on the vaudeville stage. Report to an Academy is as thought provoking as it is humorous. Through the ape metamorphosis, this adaptation explores the very essence of what it is to be human.

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 10:00 PM
Sep 6 - 7:00 PM
Sep 7 - 10:00 PM
Sep 10 - 8:45 PM
Sep 12 - 10:15 PM
Sep 14 - 6:30 PM

For more information, report here.

Read the Plank Review here.

Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

My Autopsy

[img_assist|nid=315|title=My Autopsy|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Curried Haggis Productions
Duration: 75 minutes
Studio 16

Deepak Chopra meets Spalding Gray. A dark comedic self-evisceration spanning 50 years and merging eastern & western philosophy and religion. Jesus and Dracula immortal? The 60's. Psychedelics in Kitsilano. Cutting cadavers in Yellowknife. Funeral pyre in India. Ceremonial Magick. Meditation with an enlightened Master, Namgyal Rinpoche. "Rich tapestry of experience delivered with wry wit." Sharon Pollock CBC

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 9:45 PM
Sep 6 - 1:00 PM
Sep 7 - 8:00 PM
Sep 8 - 5:00 PM
Sep 13 - 6:45 PM
Sep 14 - 3:30 PM

For more information, get it together here.

Read the Plank Review.

Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

Transcendental Masturbation:The Comeback

[img_assist|nid=313|title=Transcendental Masturbation:The Comeback|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Glen Callender Ufa
Duration: 60 minutes
Performance Works

A quintessential Fringe classic returns to Vancouver after an eight-year absence! Armed with a vintage keyboard, a $5 garage-sale accordion and other dubious implements, a lone comedian purveys a mélange of music and mayhem. Don’t miss the experience The Province declared a “Pick of the Fringe” and The Georgia Straight called “A very funny show!” **Note** The correct time for the performance on Sun Sep 14 is 7:15 PM, not 7:00 PM as listed in the program guide.

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 9:30 PM
Sep 6 - 7:00 PM
Sep 7 - 10:30 PM
Sep 10 - 8:30 PM
Sep 12 - 10:15 PM
Sep 14 - 7:15 PM

For more information jack off here.

See what came over our reviewer.

Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

Gutenberg! The Musical!

[img_assist|nid=311|title=Gutenberg! The Musical!|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]

Company: Wide Eyed Productions
Duration: 75 minutes
Granville Island Stage

Bud and Doug have created the greatest mega musical of all time - all about the life of Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press. Tonight, they're pitching it to you. Gutenberg! The Musical! has finally arrived in Vancouver. Get Ready to Read!

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 9:30 PM
Sep 6 - 6:45 PM
Sep 10 - 9:15 PM
Sep 13 - 3:15 PM
Sep 14 - 7:15 PM

 

Check out the Plank review here.

 

Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

Crude Love

[img_assist|nid=309|title=Crude Love|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Big Smoke Productions
Duration: 60 minutes
Carousel Theatre

In Alberta's tar sands in the near future, a woman dump truck driver from Newfoundland falls in love with an eco-warrior.

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 9:00 PM
Sep 5 - 11:00 PM
Sep 6 - 5:00 PM
Sep 7 - 3:00 PM
Sep 8 - 7:00 PM
Sep 9 - 11:00 PM
Sep 11 - 7:00 PM
Sep 12 - 9:00 PM
Sep 13 - 9:00 PM
Sep 14 - 5:00 PM

For more information start drilling here.

And read the Plank review from the Victoria Fringe here. 

Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

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