Vancouver

Busty Rhymes with MC Hot Pink

[img_assist|nid=289|title=Busty Rhymes with MC Hot Pink|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Penash Productions
Duration: 60 minutes
Performance Works

2007’s Kinky Kiwi, Penny Ashton is back to bust some rhymes on yo ass. In a Booty-ful night of spoken word, MC Hot Pink serves up a show that’s the bastard love child of Eminem, Cosmopolitan Magazine and the Wiggles. “… poetry to make you hungry, happy and horny.” 5 Stars, Three Weeks (Edinburgh) “... hilariously sexy.” 4 1/2 Stars Winnipeg Sun “… a bumping grinding dynamo onstage.” Vancouver Courier

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 7:45 PM
Sep 5 - 10:30 PM
Sep 6 - 8:45 PM
Sep 10 - 6:45 PM
Sep 13 - 10:45 PM
Sep 14 - 5:30 PM

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Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

May Day Parade

[img_assist|nid=287|title=May Day Parade|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Club Solo
Duration: 74 minutes
Granville Island Stage

Portraying 1 Baptist preacher, 3 generations , 4 bass drummers, 12 rather large letter girls and the 100 member Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church Drum & Bugle Corps, award winning Fringe performer ,Wayne Harris marches in his first parade…unless a jealous brother, an alcoholic Deacon, new shoes and grandmother of biblical proportions don't trip him up along the way.

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 7:30 PM
Sep 6 - 8:45 PM
Sep 10 - 7:15 PM
Sep 12 - 5:15 PM
Sep 14 - 5:15 PM

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Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

City of Control

Company: Stage Door Theatre
Duration: 60 minutes
Stage Door Theatre

Life without choices or thinking for yourself. No art. No music. A bleak reality for people computer controlled. Their only hope is a group of radicals armed with colours, who must wake the King and his Hard-Wired slumber, overthrow 'Control,' and find the independence they desperately need. City of Control is a multimedia extravaganza filled with fun and surprises.

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 7:30 PM
Sep 5 - 7:30 PM
Sep 6 - 7:30 PM
Sep 10 - 7:30 PM
Sep 11 - 7:30 PM
Sep 12 - 7:30 PM

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Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

The Musical of Musicals: the Musical!

Company: Fighting Chance Productions
Duration: 60 minutes
Carousel Theatre

Why see one show when you can see five? Girl must pay rent, girl cannot afford rent. Girl gets advice from mother figure. Boy pays rent. All sing. All in the styles of Lloyd Webber, Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kander and Ebb and Jerry Herman. Starring Mikal Grant, Steven Greenfield, Anna Kuman and Colleen Winton. Directed by Ryan Moooney.

Showtimes

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

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Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

Heist/Boys Night Out

[img_assist|nid=283|title=Heist / Boys Night Out|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Jake and Dylan
Duration: 50 minutes
Origins Organic Coffee

Heist is the story of what should have been the greatest heist in US history, but wasn't. Boy's Night Out: it's never too late to have your friend's back.

Showtimes

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

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Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

Wok Hard: The Story of Stir Fried Crazy

[img_assist|nid=281|title=Wok Hard: The Story of Stir Fried Crazy|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Binky Productions
Duration: 60 minutes
The Gym at FCCC

The sketch comedy group Stir Fried Crazy presents for you a delectable assortment of comedy sketches. Feast on karaoke in inappropriate locations. Partake of Steven Seagal's adventures in babysitting. And ingest the communication issues between father and son in the Skywalker family. All this and more can be yours. All you have to do is Wok Hard.

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 6:45 PM
Sep 5 - 10:15 PM
Sep 6 - 9:00 PM
Sep 10 - 7:00 PM
Sep 13 - 11:00 PM
Sep 14 - 5:15 PM

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Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

A Brief History of Petty Crime

[img_assist|nid=279|title=A Brief History of Petty Crime|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=265|height=288]Company: The Roody Pancake Experiment
Duration: 55 minutes
The Gym at FCCC

A fast-paced, physical comedy about my life of crime, with a car crash and plenty of tangents.

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 5:00 PM
Sep 5 - 8:30 PM
Sep 7 - 6:45 PM
Sep 9 - 5:30 PM
Sep 11 - 8:45 PM
Sep 14 - 1:45 PM

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Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

The Last Gig of Lenny Breau

[img_assist|nid=277|title=The Last Gig of Lenny Breau|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]

Company: Attunement Productions
Duration: 60 minutes
Agro Cafe

With guitarist Colin Godbout as Lenny Breau and Gerry Charlebois on percussion. Chet Atkins regarded Lenny Breau as the greatest living guitarist. However when his protege's bohemian lifestyle thwarted his success Atkins introduced him to Vivian, an attractive moral censor. At his last gig Breau's failure to harmonize his musical improvisations with moral conventions ends in murder. From guitar whiz to scat singing mystic, The Last Gig delivers the full Lenny!

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 6:30 PM
Sep 5 - 6:30 PM
Sep 6 - 6:30 PM
Sep 7 - 7:00 PM
Sep 8 - 7:00 PM
Sep 9 - 7:00 PM
Sep 10 - 6:30 PM
Sep 12 - 6:30 PM
Sep 13 - 6:30 PM
Sep 14 - 6:30 PM

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Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

I'm Herbert

[img_assist|nid=275|title=I'm Herbert|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Collaborative Damage Productions
Duration: 45 minutes
The Irmacs Centre (SFU)

Herbert and Muriel are an elderly couple at home discussing their past marriages, relationships, children and trips they have taken in their life. But the only problem is they cannot agree with each other, let alone remember their identities.

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 6:30 PM
Sep 6 - 6:30 PM
Sep 10 - 6:30 PM
Sep 11 - 6:30 PM
Sep 12 - 6:30 PM
Sep 14 - 6:30 PM

Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

Balls

[img_assist|nid=273|title=Balls!|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=288|height=288]Company: Ten Foot Pole Productions
Duration: 60 minutes
Playwrights Theatre Centre

Balls - n. 1. Vulgar slang, testicles. 2. Courage, masculinity. When Bastian's best friend gets testicular cancer, he finds out that sometimes being a man feels a lot like getting kicked in the balls. Winner: Hamilton Fringe New Play Award, London Fringe Best Original Production; "****" - Ottawa Sun; "The Full Package" - Hamilton View "Must See" - Ottawa Citizen

Showtimes

Sep 4 - 6:30 PM
Sep 5 - 10:00 PM
Sep 6 - 8:45 PM
Sep 10 - 7:00 PM
Sep 13 - 10:00 PM
Sep 14 - 4:45 PM

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Location: 
Vancouver
Year: 
2008

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