Inescapable by Martin Dockery
ODD Box
Twilight Zone + MC Escher + Beckett in a mind-bending comedic thriller!
2024 Shows
Jewish-ish
ODD Box
An autobiographical, solo show about a secular Jew/music nerd’s search for selfhood at French Catholic school, Jewish camp, family holidays and beyond.
Interwoven with violin playing, this poignant and funny story will captivate and delight.
Jimmy Hogg: The Potato King
La Nouvelle Scène – Studio B
The multiple award-winning British comedian and storyteller returns to Ottawa.
Joshua’s Witnesses
La Nouvelle Scène – Studio A
JOSHUA’S WITNESSES is an immersive, solo clown show which unearths all things Jehovah.
Join Joshua for his one-of-a-kind conversion seminar, which will get you out of the theatre and onto the streets in door knocking shape!
Using his childhood experience as a Jehovah’s Witness, paired with his sexy, spellbinding physical comedy, Joshua gives you all the dirty intel on this age-old American cult.
Persephone
LabO
Persephone, influenced from the Greek legend, starts with a clever duo dance conjures up images of mythical creatures, morphing from one to the other.
Robert Will Show You the Door (Tales of Being Fired)
Studio 1201
Susan Jeremy accidentally became a teacher after being fired from almost every survival job. This poignant and laugh-out-loud memoir chronicles the absurdity of the situations. Jeremy seamlessly transforms into all characters so that you can relive the humiliation with her.
Roselia’s Tea House
LabO
Elegy has always seen things others can’t: the red strings of people’s destinies. She got used to the lonely life of a seer, convinced she knew everything about what the future held.
So, You’re Stuck in an Underground Bunker
Arts Court Theatre
In the not-too-distant future, humanity is no more. Nuclear war has devastated planet earth leaving the surface a pile of ash and radiation. All that remains is Earth’s last gay friend group in an underground bunker.
Tales of a Reluctant World Traveler
Studio 1201
Sixteen weeks, four continents, three bungee jumps, and I couldn’t come home soon enough. This is the story of how a Boston homebody turned a solo trip around the globe into a comedy novel and a one-man play.
The City Aquarium is Proud to Present: The Marvelous Mermaids of Merriment™
La Nouvelle Scène – Studio A
from: Board Chair <chair@thecityaquarium.com>
to: Cindy Alvin <cindy@thecityaquarium.com>; All Board Members <…
date: Jun 12, 2024, 7:00 AM
subject: RE: Ottawa Fringe Festival Pre-Engagement Presentation – Marvelous Mermaids of Merrim…
THE KID WAS A SPY
ODD Box
True story. New York, 1944. Ted Hall, 19, the youngest Physicist in Oppenheimer’s Atomic Bomb Project, asks himself the giant question: will the world be safer after the War if he gives atomic secrets to the Russians? And he does. From teenage friendship to stark treason. From the idyll of young love to the murky world of spies. From big decision to deep consequence. And from high science to Hiroshima.