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10,000 Digits of Pi

DARC Microcinema

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!

A Sexy Pigeon Show

Café Alternatif

This city pigeon is on a mission to win back humans’ love for all pigeon-kind. Colum has created the perfect show for humans!

After Shakespeare

ODD Box

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.

All that Glitters in the Dark

La Nouvelle Scène – Studio A

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.

At Death’s Door

DARC Microcinema

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.

C0nt3

Café Alternatif

C0nt3 is an intimate multidisciplinary circus experience using augmented reality.

Chez Suzette Boulette

La Nouvelle Scène – Studio A

Welcome to Suzette Boulette, what can I put on your plate? A cigarette break trio? A good-natured food fight? A criminal hotdog with blood for dipping? Perfect. Now, head behind the counter, clock in, and enjoy the interpreters!

Clown Seeking Clown

Studio 1201

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.

Divine Masculine: A Rhapsody

La Nouvelle Scène – Studio A

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.

DNA

LabO

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.”

Golden Threads

LabO

Fantasy, reality, and impossibility intertwine as Cressida tries to break a curse on her family.

GOREGEOUS

LabO

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.

I Scream, You Scream… Justice!

Arts Court Theatre

Afi Ata’s favourite ice cream shoppe is under new management and has stopped selling Chocolate Caramel – her favourite ice cream flavour!

Multiple Neurosis

Studio 1201

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.

Oy, What They Said About Love

Atelier Theatre

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.

Sammy and “Le Grand Buffet”

La Nouvelle Scène – Studio A

Sammy is a stranger in a strange land. He is an American (clown) in Paris who somehow has landed a job at a fancy restaurant. But what if you are also – a clown?

Small Fish

Atelier Theatre

Lasers! Horses! Dolly Parton? A comedy revue tackling the Real Stuff™ – feminism, and existentialism, and third cousins.

Sous le même toit?

La Nouvelle Scène – Studio B

Qu’est-il donc advenu de ce fameux village qu’il faut pour élever un enfant ?

Strings Attached

LabO

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.

The Bunker

ODD Box

A fast-moving comedic head-trip about two brothers wrestling with the end of everything. Hilarious, heartfelt, and fun.

The Death of a Swan

Arts Court Theatre

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.

The Graveyard Shift

La Nouvelle Scène – Studio A

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.

The Naked Mennonite: LIVE

ODD Box

When Stephen’s family moves to a small, conservative town, his search for belonging pulls him closer to truths he’d rather avoid.

The Wickie

ODD Box

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

La Nouvelle Scène – Studio B

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.

Ugly Privilege

Studio 1201

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.”

Unsatisfaction

DARC Microcinema

A solo show that combines storytelling and stand-up comedy. Sarah promises that it will be cathartic.