Comment définir un sandwich ? Comment définir le genre ? Comment se définir soi-même ? On a des éléments de notre identité qu’on partage sans souci tandis qu’on garde d’autres cachés.
A family man robs a thief of a ton of money. Martin Dockery’s edge-of-your-seat thriller, set to a propulsive soundtrack. A knuckle-biting story of suspense, humor, & horror!
Vinay navigates his memory palace of absurd images (shown on screen) to recite 10,000 Digits of Pi throughout the festival. However, every time he makes a mistake, he must do a punishment decided by the audience!
Award-winning magic & storytelling from Toronto’s BEST magician… and he’s not even from Toronto!
This city pigeon is on a mission to win back humans’ love for all pigeon-kind. Colum has created the perfect show for humans!
What happens to Shakespeare’s heroes and villains after the curtain falls? Join Lady Macbeth, Portia, Hamlet, and King Hal as they reflect on their lives. Lexi Wolfe blends Shakespeare’s words, historical research, and her own dramatic spark to embody four distinct characters and explore their onward journeys.
Two unlikely heroines are met with mystical directives to follow all the way to the top of the mount and to the precipice of distress.
Part stand-up, part storytelling, & part clown, it’s an intimate, unpredictable exploration of pain, zoology, & imagination. A gloriously deranged Ted-Talk by a wanna be scientist clown school graduate.
HYPERSENSIBLE est une performance solo intimiste sur ce que ça veut dire de vivre avec le trouble de la personnalité limite.
Un atelier de dessin d’après modèle vivant se déroule dans le studio d’art. Mal à l’aise avec la manière dont l’activité est menée, Lynne recherche une équipe de complices pour améliorer le cours.
It was meant to be a simple night at the theatre, but with a dame, a detective, and a dastardly criminal, it’s anything but!
A smoky night. A dark highway. A person on the edge. A story where life and death are nothing but a line drawn in the dirt.
When two complete strangers are placed in a societal experiment designed for them to build a connection and be vulnerable to one another, things get physically and emotionally intense.
Gritty cabaret headliner Vulva Va-Voom may have spent many years casting artistic pearls before nightclub swine, but is still accustomed to stages with at least rudimentary technical capabilities.
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Join Duane Forrest on an acoustic journey through the roots of reggae to the global influence of Bob Marley.
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Bucket List est un spectacle captivant mélangeant narration et magie, écrit et joué par Jimmy Cao.
C0nt3 is an intimate multidisciplinary circus experience using augmented reality.
Trapped in a time warp and desperate to escape, Rayna sets out to unravel a deadly tangle of threads that threaten to strangle her.
Bienvenu Chez Suzette Boulette, qu’est-ce que je peux mettre dans votre assiette? Un trio pause cigarette? Un food-fight à la bonne franquette? Un hotdog criminel avec du sang comme trempette? Parfait. Alors, rendez-vous derrière le comptoir, clockez-in et profitez des interprètes!
Hot Single Clowns in your area! Hopeless romantic clown seeking someone with whimsy to share movie dates, cotton candy sticks, and fun facts about scary airports.
Wrestling with the fact that you’re Mom and Dad’s favourite by default now? Well you’ve come to the right place!
With a soundtrack ranging from Kendrick Lamar to Bollywood classics, this story of two couples explores the social construction of masculinity, cultural and racial fetishism, and the bridges and barriers we build in expressing love.
A street. A field. A wood.
A choice. And another. And– “Maybe we should do nothing… » Mark. Jan. Leah. Phil. John Tate. Lou. Richard. Cathy. Brian. Adam.
« What’s more important, one person or everyone?”How far will you go in order to belong?
“Are you happy? No, don’t answer that.”
Three undead workers are given a second chance in this fast paced satire about work after life.
To be just or to justify, That is the question, Your Honour. A dark, gritty, serious crime drama.
After surviving WWII caught in Berlin, Eleanor struggles to navigate U.S. high school while haunted by war trauma.
J’ai crié « maman » sous les néons endimanchés de rouge. Tu déposeras des nénuphars sur ma tombe ; les tapettes seront en deuil.
1990s Toronto: voice over work is a great way to find gigs. Two actors enter the same recording booth at two different times of day to dub a Japanese show about a group of magical girls fighting for hope and justice.
Fantasy, reality, and impossibility intertwine as Cressida tries to break a curse on her family.
In the advent of a peculiar zombie apocalypse, two orphans grappling with starvation and abandonment seek refuge in a once-illustrious New Orleans brothel. Unbeknownst to them, the eccentric burn victim lurking inside welcomes their company for one very unfortunate reason.
On the cusp of the Bolshevik revolution, a noble-born governess and a bombmaker argue over semantics—and whether to keep a child conceived out of wedlock.
« What is a Ha-Mong? » Jasmine Vang is teaching a Hmong Class to share her Hmong American identity with the Fringe.
Afi Ata’s favourite ice cream shoppe is under new management and has stopped selling Chocolate Caramel – her favourite ice cream flavour!
The Tragic Dane takes on Othello’s bane Iago in a battle of soliloquies within a rented double-book’d rehearsal space.
Katie will tell you her sultriest secrets, her most salacious scandals, and why she isn’t allowed to date Canadians anymore. Life’s more fun when you kiss and tell! 💋
A fast-paced, satirical comedy for technology lovers and haters. Technology makes our lives easier, right? Oldy-weds Jack and Diane unwittingly test this theory as they tackle a greedy virtual assistant, a disagreeable GPS, a no-technology camp run by misguided millennials, and plenty of aggressive wildlife. Who will prevail? You be the judge.
Ouch… C’est quoi ça? J’suis ou? Une table… Une Chaise… Ouch, j’ai mal a tête.
In the land of Japanese folklore, Kitsune fox are renowned for their shape-shifting abilities, their many tails, and the mischief they create. What adventure will this Kitsune go on, and who will she meet?
Karin Fekko weaves tales of hilarity and tragedy through 17 years of keeping her MS a secret while partying, dating, and trying to land her dream job.
Award-winning solo performer Steve Budd wonders why other people can tie the knot and he can’t. Oy does he wonder! So he asked some couples what brought them together and keeps them from pulling apart.
Three friends set out to play the extremely rare, top secret, thirteenth edition of the world’s favourite tabletop role playing game, Ogres and Oubliettes.
Sammy est un étranger dans un pays étranger. C’est un Américain (clown) à Paris qui, par un curieux hasard, a décroché un emploi dans un restaurant chic. Mais que se passe-t-il si vous êtes aussi… un clown ?
Lasers! Horses! Dolly Parton? A comedy revue tackling the Real Stuff™ – feminism, and existentialism, and third cousins.
Qu’est-il donc advenu de ce fameux village qu’il faut pour élever un enfant ?
Strings Attached is a heart-wrenching one-act play exploring mental illness and the extremes one will go to escape its suffocating grip. The story focuses on the complicated relationship between two characters: one is a young woman mourning her youthful innocence while struggling through her torturous present, and the other is an embodiment of her complex, fractured mind.
Sharp intellectual satire meets risqué Monty Pythonesque buffoonery in this über-polished multimedia « lecture. »
A burlesque show unlike any other. Join world-class comedians and clowns as they master the art of the tease!
A fast-moving comedic head-trip about two brothers wrestling with the end of everything. Hilarious, heartfelt, and fun.
When a strange man offers a way to save her poetry café, the audience must watch Evergreen accept a deal that every woman is offered.
Grave robbing: the ultimate dead-end job. Silent comedy with the unquiet dead. Burke and Hare with a dash of Buster Keaton. You’ll be dying to find out what happens next.
When Stephen’s family moves to a small, conservative town, his search for belonging pulls him closer to truths he’d rather avoid.
The Pleasant Meadows public library has a problem. Not only are literacy rates declining, but political pressures have been placing the beloved resource in the bullseye of protesters.
Jane, a sixty-year-old orphan and retiring interior decorator, goes on a self-styled, « Wee Scottish Design Tour. » In the gloaming, she encounters a curious figure who challenges her experience of the world behind and before her.
A maritime tale of madness. A stubborn man vs an angry ocean. A clownesque, physical comedy about a lighthouse keeper who loses his shoe.
Truth & Beauty is an absurdly hilarious one-woman performance that follows a clown on her wild quest to make the most beautiful show in the world.
An hour of stand up comedy by Jessica Pigeau, a headlining Vancouver comedian who has been described as « like if George Carlin was a Muppet. »
A solo show that combines storytelling and stand-up comedy. Sarah promises that it will be cathartic.
Featuring a unique apparatus – the Aerial Canoe – this performance takes audiences on an emotional journey, told with the spectacle of circus, physical theatre and musical soundscape.
A hilarious and sweet dive into the diaries of a preadolescent queer!
Whiskey Flicks Live! is an unscripted, booze-infused, deep dive into film.
