#vancouverfringe

Thurs Sept 7 David Jordan day Yeah!!

5:00 A SOLDIER’S WAY at Waterfront 75 mins ½ price

6:35 Swordplay A play of swords at false Creek gym 60 mins ½

8:00 An Arrangement of Shoes at arts umbrella 60 mins

9:30 The Long Walk behind the backstage lounge 60 mins

10:45 Gutenberg the musical at carousel 90 mins ½

Friday September 8

5:00 Bouncers at The Cultch Historic 75 mins ½

7:00 Gruesome playground injuries Culture lab 75 mins ½

8:50 Pint of Life studio 1398 75 mins ½

10:35 Your princess is in another castle studio 1398 60 mins ½

Saturday September 9

12:00 12 minute madness firehall 30 mins ½

1:15 No big deal havana 60 mins

3:00 Throne havana 30 mins

4:30 Brain machine arts umbrella 60 mins

5:45 5 step guide to being German perfect works 75 mins

7:15 The Birdmann Birdhouse railspur park 40 mins ½

8:30 Lovely Lady Lump studio 1398 75 mins

10:05 Field zoology false Creek gym 50 mins

Sunday September 10

12:00 How I lost one pound firehall 60 mins

1:30 Shadowlands Waterfront 60 mins

3:00 The Inventor of all things carousel 60 mins

5:00 Blood Countess Waterfront 60 mins

6:15 The Audience dies at the end arts umbrella 45 mins

7:45 Six fine lines carousel 60 mins

8:50 Gigantic lying mouth revue 60 mins

10:30 It figures carousel 30 mins

Monday September 11

5:00 Bushel and Peck waterfront 75 mins

6:50 Ain’t true and uncle false perf works 60 mins

8:30 Everybody dies in December studio 1398 60 mins

10:15 Hyena Subpoena studio 1398 55 mins

Tuesday September 12

5:15 7 ways to die, a love story studio 16 60 mins

7:00 Bondage culture lab 65 mins

8:50 Soul samurai culture lab 100 mins

Wednesday September 13

5:00 Intersellar Elder waterfront 75 mins

7:45 Szeretlek a Hungarian love story false Creek gym 50 mins

9:45 Let me freeze your head waterfront 55 mins

Thursday September 14

5:00 Teaching Shakespeare waterfront 60 mins

6:45 Distractingly Sexy studio 16 60 mins

8:25 Naturally false creek gym 55 mins

10:00 periscope ocean and crow yoga studio 60

Friday September 15

5:00 Figmentally revue 60 mins

6:45 Habitats cultch historic 45 mins

8:15 Roller coaster firehall 75 mins

10:15 The messenger cultch historic 75 mins

Saturday September 16

12:00 Multiple Organism firehall 60 mins

1:15 Draining the swamp havana 70

5:35 A Night at the Rose Coloured Disco cultch historic 75

7:05 Bombay black culture lab 100 mins

9:15 Executing justice revue 60

11:00 Big Brothers cabaret of Bullshit

Sunday September 17

12:00 Sechs firehall 75 mins

2:00 Slumber here Ron basford park 45 mins

3:00 Fifty shades of Dave studio 1398 60 mins

4:45 Saor studio 1398 60 mins

6:45 Chris and Travis carousel 60 mins

8:00 Setting bones revue 60 mins

9:45 Almost a stepmom arts umbrella 55 mins

And that’s 45 shows on the passes we bought and 10 ½ price

Well we did save the best for last. Josephine was everything we had heard it would be and more. How were we lucky enough to see a show like this at the fringe. This show was dazzling!

I can understand why people see it multiple times. Tymisha Harris has the most amazing stage presence and a voice to rival, well, Josephine Baker. This was a must see show and possibly the best show we've seen in years. We're so glad that our friend Diane was able to see it and the staff at the CULTCH were wonderful.

Next we saw Didn't Hurt. Also a very good show but it went way over time and we ended up running to our next show in the lab. The most massive woman was not our favorite show but they had some stiff competition from the 2 previous shows. We ended the nite with Destiny USA which was the perfect show to end the fringe. It was a great story which hit really close to home. It was funny and emotional and deeply vulnerable. We loved it. And then we had the beautiful full moon shining down on Granville island. Now the countdown begins for next year.

Well sat was a mixed bag. We really liked Red. Two artists coexist in a painting studio, one older and firmly established but feeling like he's losing his relevance and the other his employer doing all his grunt work and carrying out his every whim but also challenging him to face his reality. It was very well done and both actors were fantastic. And we enjoyed In several times. It was an abstract interpretive dance production we quite enjoyed it. We also loved Bedwetter.

She had a problem, a big problem, until she was 14. She shared her secret and all it's challenges in a hilarious way and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Diagnose this , pretty beast and 4.48 psychosis we're not shows that we enjoyed although the second part of diagnose this did get better when she got more personal with her story. The cabaret was fantastic as always. Jem Rolls always does a great job of wrangling the actors into brilliant bits that we'll be talking about for years. The raging killer seagulls were great doing Martin Dockery's bidding to keep the next "solo" show idea all to himself. Martin doing his impression of Jem was great and we loved the dancing puppet chorus line. Loved the bit Dion Arnold did about flyering. We hope he comes back. Enjoyed the anti joke bit. Bad jokes. So much to laugh about. Things took a political turn at one point but quickly reverted back to the cabaret we all look forward to. It's been a weird year. Latecomers are strolling in sometimes 15 or 20 minutes into a performance and often climbing over things to get to seats. Practically every revue is reserving the entire front row for these latecomers and for self defined priority seating whatever that means. It's all been very disruptive and, I guess, if you want to sit at the front you need to come late. It's all very bizarre and no one seems to know what's really going on. Clear as mud. This fringe will be remembered as the year chaos and confusion reigned.

What an educational evening. Tonite we saw Mx. We loved it as did the near sell out crowd. This was the biggest audience we've seen yet. The themes were varied from ancestry to race to sexual identity and how anyone can figure it all out. We'll be talking about this one and debating what it all really means. Damn sure it will be a pick of the fringe. And in keeping with the educational theme of the evening we took in Jem Rolls the walk in the snow. The true story of Lise Meitner.

Jem just loves these true stories and it really shows. Why oh why didn't we have a history teacher who could make this all so fascinating. Jem never disappoints.

We did start the nite off with a hilarious show. Becoming Magic Mike. And what did we learn at this one? That DK Reinemer can do a kickass impression of Mathew McConaughey doing Dallas in Magic Mike the movie and that he is a hell of a dancer! Super funny show!

And Bike face. We discovered that it is possible for a solo woman to ride a bike from Halifax to Vancouver and not get murdered along the way. It was a great story!