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Poster Boys is based loosely on the true story of a VanCity Credit Union advertising campaign that featured gay couples (or, as the play calls it occasionally and self-consciously, “cultural diversity”). Apparently the campaign angered Catholics and caused the church to pull out their backing for a banking program for children at the credit union.
I [...]

Ryan Paulson, who grew up in a fundamentalist pentecostal family, tells the story of his progression from fundamentalist to heathen. This is great stand-up with a few musical interludes (I could have done with more). The songs each have a small sing-along component, and it’s definitely fun to be blaspheming with a whole room of [...]

This is absolutely the funniest post-modern sub-brechtian crap I have ever seen. I won’t say much about it because I’m not sure what I could say that wouldn’t spoil it, but the play is awesome. One of my favorites of the Fringe so far.
It was also fairly under-attended, so please go. And bring people with [...]

For The Love of a Zombie is a mixed-multimedia play about a farm hand who, through the use of organic pesticides, discovers the truth about the farmgirl he believes he loves. Scenes that take place outside the farm house are portrayed on a large projection screen.
This play, overall, really reminds me of old-school CD-ROM games. [...]

It had to happen at some point, didn’t it? I thought I might make it through this season without seeing a stinker, but unfortunately I didn’t come away unscathed.
Though Brent Hirose shows promise as an actor, the play itself seems a broken and jumbled mess of characters who lack realistic motivation, plot turns that often [...]

Moving Along becomes Chris Craddock’s catch-phrase in this play as he regales his audience with stories from his life. What makes this play more special than your average stand-up monologue, though, is the set design.
Crammed into the corner of the tiny little Wunderbar BYOV space is what looks like a cross between an electric [...]

Despite my obvious love of theatre, I don’t really know a lot of people who feel the same way. Given that, I’m often finding myself explaining things about the Fringe and how to make the most of it when you’ve never done it before. With the final weekend of the Fringe coming up, which seems [...]

This play tells the story of a couple who’s relationship falls apart because of a case of mistaken identity. One member of the couple is actually a marriage counselor who through a fairly twisted turn of circumstances ends up being selected as the sex counselor for the husband and his rebound girlfriend.
If that sounds [...]

The main character sums it up when she says “everybody loves a sexy librarian.” This is a hilarious and touching play about a girl who finds out she’s famous for a sex tape her ex boyfriend made of her (in his apartment, where they always had sex with the lights on, and not normal lights [...]

If ever there was a story that could demonstrate that humor at its core is about bad things happening to people, this is the one. Played in a completely different way, this would easily be one of the most depressing fringe plays I’ve ever seen. Somehow, they manage to pull it away from the ledge [...]