Fringe #42 - Wednesday, Aug 23rd - A Music Filled Day! And WORD OF MOUTH!


Undiscovered Country - A really cool little concert of a show. It's a play and talk concert in the style of Hawksley Workman but the stories are a little weirder and more dystopian. It was mesmerizing and I'm still trying to figure it out, but I don't think you're supposed to be able to. So wonderful to see Chris Bullough onstage as I feel it's been too long. Actually had a long conversation with a lady in the line-up about the actors we haven't seen much on Edmonton stages lately and how we hope we will be seeing them more again. Anyhow, this show was pretty cool - subtle and enigmatic. 


Tiger Lady - This is the show that I heard mentioned the most in my Word of Mouth conversations and it is not hard to see why. The cast of 6 fills the stage of the Westbury with physical action and a world created through low-tech magic! They combine music, movement, storytelling and puppetry and dp all of these things excellently. There's audience participation but not in a cheesy way, but rather we are all part of the show! A must-see - I hope it makes the holdovers because I think it's been selling out the Westbury - even at the more hard to sell time slots! 

Amor de Cosmos - I was very happy and excited to see this show! It tells a strange story from Canadian politics about Amor de Cosmos who reinvented himself many times. It's a bit of a whirlwind, with music by Lindsay Walker and performed by Cody Porter. I think it could be expanded (in fact, I think it had to be cut down from it's Toronto run time to fit the Edmonton timeslot). The music is catchy and Cody is a likable performer who ably conjures the title character as well as many other political figures of the time!

WORD OF MOUTH - Wednesday, August 23

Tango in the Dark

Sea Wall (Top recommendation)

Morningside Road

The Approach

Epidermis Circus

Love, Kurt

Train One to Coal Valley

Muse

Il Tabaro

Bathsheba and the Books

The Makings of a Voice (Dana Wylie)

Krampus

Life After Life After Hockey

Donating Sperm to my Sisters Wife

Tiger Lady

Chase Padgett: Nashville Hurricane

Jimmy Hogg: The Potato King

Paco Erhard: How To Monetize Free Hugs

Rat Academy

Anatomica 

Let’s Talk About Your Death

Absolute Magic

The War Comic

Martin Dockery (both shows)

Jon Bennett: Fire in the Meth Lab

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