META-FRINGE: Giant Invisible Robot battles with four enormous thumbs up!
When you see FOUR THUMBS UP, you know you’re in for a really good play at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. Good luck getting tickets to Giant Invisible Robot! Now please welcome the CBC’s Paul Matwychuk to our multi-thumbed hydra of hyper-criticism, a meta-media monster that already includes the body parts of several different theatre […]
META-FRINGE – Three thumbs up for new David Belke play Forsooth, My Lovely
Now we have Vue Weekly magazine to add to our critical conflations of the Edmonton International Fringe Festival – creating a Frankensteinian meta-critic with three thumbs. Enjoy the best of the best, and if you’re into that sort of thing, the worst of the worst. THREE THUMBS UP FORSOOTH MY LOVELY, BYOV 29 (mixture of […]
META-FRINGE: Elephant and Scarlet woman feel the love
Catch Day Three Meta-reviews here: In Gig City’s daily meta-fringe, we’re only interested in meta-mutilating the published reviews of Fringe plays that are either really, really great … or blow it right out of the ass. The vast middle ground of differing critical opinions on so many different types of live theatre at this event […]
William Shatner to sing at the Shaw Conference Centre Oct. 23
SHATNERRRRRRRR! Yea, hear the cries from on high and upon on-line chat rooms across the realm – William Shatner is coming to the Shaw Conference Centre on Sunday, Oct. 23. What will the legendary Lord of the Boards be doing, you ask? Why, nothing! Nothing that scads of celebrities before him haven’t done, that is. […]
GIGGLE CITY: Martin Dockery’s Fringe hit The Surprise gets held over
If you talk to kindergarten kids in a museum, you’re a storyteller. If you’re recounting your latest Peruvian safari at the Explorer’s Club, you’re a raconteur. If you tell penis jokes to drunks in a bar, you’re a stand-up comedian. If you do this same thing in a theatre with no jokes, you’re a one-man […]
PREVIEW: Hedwig and the (not so) angry Fringe
Seeing Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Garneau Theatre 10 years ago was a life-changing experience for Antonio Bavaro. The actor/activist/drag queen will live out a dream at this year’s Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival when he takes the lead role in a theatre production of the edgy glam-rock musical. “This movie shaped our lives […]
Edmonton Fringe wins national honour from playwrights
This year’s edition hasn’t even kicked off yet, but the Edmonton Fringe fest is already getting plaudits. In this case, it’s for its long service to the theatre community and to playwrights, more specifically. The Playwrights Guild of Canada has granted the Fringe an honorary membership, the first time the award has been given to […]
