2010 Vancouver Fringe Festival

Martin Dockery is someone that you immediately want to be friends with:  he’s funny, he’s intelligent and boy, can he tell a story.  He's also someone you’d want to take home to mother, if only he was a relationship kind of guy.

With credit to my friend Deb for the descriptor, Brown Girl in the Ring is indeed “challenging sushi”.  You know, that unusual little morsel that looks oddly appetizing but leaves you wholly unsatisfied?

While perhaps a tad salacious in its title (the full title of this Fringe show is Fucking Stephen Harper:  How I Sexually Assaulted the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada), Rob Salerno’s one-man PowerPoint is a funny rant without benefit of a laugh track.

Vancouver’s Hardline Productions is at it again.  In their self-described mission to produce “theatre that punches you in the face” this talented group has mounted an entertaining and wildly imaginative hour with their 2010 Vancouver International Fringe entry, Heptademic Redux.

Tomfoolery?  Shenanigans?  How about Raccoonery!?  Indeed, I would have to agree, existing words could not do justice to Morgan Brayton’s latest cast of oddball characters in a Vancouver Fringe show that will have you laughing out loud.

Katherine Glover tells interesting stories; they’re just not that cynical.

Gay writer and director Javier Vilalta, from Calgary's Maple Salsa Theatre, brings his show The Dali Hours to the 2010 Vancouver International Fringe Festival.  We ask Vilalta about the show, Dali and pushing boundaries in this q&a.

Minneapolis writer, comedian, and spoken word performer Katherine Glover makes her first foray into the Canadian Fringe circuit including a stop at the Vancouver International Fringe Festival with her one-woman show A Cynic Tells Love Stories.  We posed a number of questions to Katherine about her show in this q&a.

We all know that the British tabloids can be a treasure trove of Royal secrets, but the Vancouver Fringe Festival? It will if Valerie Mason-John has her way as she brings her show Brown Girl in the Ring to Vancouver in September.

Little did actor/writer/journalist Rob Salerno know that what started out as a joke back in 2008 to see who could come up with the most outrageous title for a show would actually come to be.  Based on his experience covering the snap federal election that year, the self-described "shocking" title took root and thus Salerno's Fucking Stephen Harper was born. Making his way through Canada's Fringe circuit, Salerno brings his play to Vancouver as part of the 2010 Vancouver Fringe Festival.