There’s so much great theatre, dance, and multi-disciplinary work going on at the 2019 Vancouver Fringe Festival. Check out some of our wonderful alumni’s shows!
Joylyn Secunda ‘s The Moaning Yoni
Tune in to your clitoral consciousness with this original one-woman show! Critically acclaimed performer and alumnx Joylyn Secunda brings to life 17 characters to tell the story of a young college student just trying to fit in. Until one day she applies an elixir, and her Vagina starts to talk…
From Tinder to Tantra, The Moaning Yoni explores the intersection of gender, sexuality, and spirituality in an unforgettable hour of laughter and physical comedy.
“★★★★★ …one of the best of the 2019 Fringe.” — Edmonton Journal
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The Trophy Hunt by Trina Davies, Directed by Alumna Shelby Bushell
Go on a hunt for something wild and dangerous… you just might find it.
Parker has waited his whole life for this trip. Jan follows the same path and makes the same trip every day. Soraya just wishes they’d leave her alone. An exploration of who eats who in our canned hunt of a world, The Trophy Hunt is a new play by Canadian playwright, Trina Davies on its rolling world premiere. So strap on your boots and grab your binoculars and join us on the Hunt!
November Theatre presents the Vancouver leg of this Rolling World Premiere as a site specific, immersive show. Join your group experience coordinator Amy as she guides you through three perspectives on the hungry, the hunt, and the insatiable wildness we so often seek to dominate.
★★★★ A show for anyone who wants a (literal) breath of fresh air from classic theatrical settings. — Montreal Theatre Hub
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The Russian Play by Hannah Moscovitch
Alumni:
Charlotte Wright: Director
Charlotte Wright, Demi Pedersen, Bronwyn Henderson: Producers
Demi Pedersen: Musical Direction and Sound Design
Tory Ip: Lighting Design
Nathan Cottell as Kostya
Bronwyn Henderson as Sonya
The Russian Play by Hannah Moscovitch is a beautifully tragic and darkly comedic tale of two star-crossed lovers fighting for survival, and each other, in Soviet Russia.
Beautiful flower seller fall in love with charming gravedigger, sound perfect, yes? No! This is Russian Play; nothing ever perfect in Russian Play. There are no happy endings here.
This is a Lovecat Theatre debut as part of the Vancouver Fringe Festival.
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Great Canadian Porno by alumnus Nick Preston with music by Sam Dabrusin
This bold, new, and certainly hilarious musical sees best friends Caleb and Jess deal with a classic millennial crisis, navigating ethics in a world that so often rewards unethical behavior. In development since 2014, a complex Golden Era musical structure lifts this contemporary story, taking the audience on a fast-paced and unexpected ride. Rated 14+, sexual themes, coarse language, no nudity.
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Awkward Stage Productions presents Lift, Music and Lyrics by Craig Adams, Book by Ian Watson
Alumna Courtney Shields: Assistant Director
Alumni in Cast: Jed Weiss, Zach Wolfman
Present Student: Zac Labrie: Lighting Designer
One morning at Covent Garden, 8 people pile into an elevator for a 60 second drop that could change them forever. Lift brings our attention to the simultaneous connection and disconnection that is oh-so-common in our daily interactions. Lift is a witty, heart-felt and raw story that provokes chilling reflection and the thought, “how much is lost in translation?”
“Adams’ witty and poignant score brings coherence amongst fragmented bursts of dialogue, each song an eruption of unsaid truth in which the characters, slinking aimlessly around [the set], get to come up for air from the facade of everyday life.”
– Leone Richmond, www.whatsonstage.com
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Guards at the Taj by Rajiv Joseph
Alumna Evan Ren: Stage Manager
A flourishing empire, an architectural marvel, one of the cruelest acts in (perhaps fabricated) history, intense drama, and at the centre of it all… a weird bromance?
Adele Noronha and Andeep Kalirai star in playwright Rajiv Joseph’s sharply written story of two Imperial Guards who stand on duty at the famed Taj Mahal in India in 1648.
“Joseph writes sly, funny dialogue laced with jolts of lyricism, and the initial exchanges between the two guards are highly captivating, even if some of the play’s verbal detours are more bewitching than enlightening.” —Hollywood Reporter
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Dusty Foot Productions Red Glimmer, written and directed by Patricia Trinh
Alumna Erika Champion: Sound Design
Red Glimmer tackles the theme of mental health with its non-linear plotline. A Suspenseful, Abstract, Sci Fi, Dramedy told through an Interdimensional Science Experiment to fast track the healing process! A Woman involuntarily takes an internal trip, after falling into a Deep Depression. A Scientist is hired to perform an experimental procedure, The Emotional Facelift, to eradicate the Womans’ ability to re-experience emotional pain. We. Are. All. Woman. Are we strong enough to stay in the sting? A creepy little girl is heard running by. What happens next?
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Splendiferous Theatre presents The Most Massive Woman Wins by Madeleine George
Alumna Sophia Paskalidis as Rennie
The Most Massive Woman Wins is a compelling and brutally funny piece of theatre presented in an imaginative non-linear format.
As an audience member, you’ll be immersed into the inner psyche of four different sized women as they explore their painful pasts and present predicaments in a way that somehow manages to be quite funny at times. It validates those all too familiar feelings of body consciousness and shame. It shows the strange discrepancy between these characters lives, the image they feel pressured to attain, and the desperate measures they’ll go to try to close that gap.
★★★★An absorbing and fascinating exhibition to watch
Laraine Ball- Adelaide Theatre Guide
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