The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is back, with 113 shows taking place across 24 venues between July 13 and 24. All of the Free Press' reviews will be published by July 18. Find a show below and click to read its review.
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The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is back, with 113 shows taking place across 24 venues between July 13 and 24. All of the Free Press' reviews will be published by July 18. Find a show below and click to read its review.
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The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is back, with 113 shows taking place across 24 venues between July 13 and 24. All of the Free Press’ reviews will be published by July 18. Find a show below and click to read its review.
Five-star fringe
As the festival enters its final weekend here are 10 reviews that earned five-star accolades from the Free Press fringe team.
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Theatre goers head towards Venue #4 of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival for a Friday afternoon showing of Write, Rewrite, Repeat. The festival has turned two empty stores at Portage Place into theatre venues.
Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl In Hitler’s Germany
Epidermis Circus
I Am The Most Unfeeling Doctor In The World (and Other Tales From The Emergency Room)
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
The Magic That Is Me
Meagre Joys
Mr. Coffeehead
Pretty Beast
Robert Will Show You The Door Ttales Of Being Fired)
Scattered Seeds
Six-legs
Slowly And Sideways
Tango: To The Pointe
Whatever Happens After
Write, Rewrite, Repeat
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES
You never know what to expect at the fringe: Joanna and Orlando Braun with their daughter Willow are surprised by the Causin’ a Commotion Chinese lion.
Bushtits, Shih Tzus And Private Dicks: All’s Fur In Love And Noir
Contractions
How I Met My Mother
Is This Yours
Kateryna And Havrylo
Monster Makers
The Morning After With Pam & Paula
Romeo & Juliet
Se’ed
Something In The Water
The Stakeout
Songs From A Wine-stained Notebook
A Toast To Prohibition
RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Local - Fringe standup
Six-year-old Layla Allen, her mom Cher Allan and dad Tod Allen spend their day off work hanging out in Old Market Square watching performances and playing games on the first of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival on Wednesday.
The WINNIPEG FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL officially starts today,
JULY 13th and runs till July 24th. This year they are showcasing 113 performing companies, daily entertainment at Old Market Square and family fun in our new Kids Fringe location. Tickets, programs and passes are on sale now!
July 13th, 2022
A Winnipeg woman previously found not criminally responsible for stabbing three people is now facing a possible prison sentence for stabbing her apartment caretaker in the neck while in the grip of a psychotic delusion.
Victoria Nuoi, 34, has pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault for the April 2025 attack.
At a hearing Tuesday, Crown attorney Marla Bettencourt recommended Nuoi, who lives with schizophrenia, be sentenced to four years in prison, while her lawyer Chris Gamby urged provincial court Judge Dale Harvey to sentence her to three years supervised probation.
Harvey reserved his decision, saying he needed time to consider the widely disparate recommendations.
Political trust refers to people’s positive expectations that the political system, the institutions which comprise it and the actors who participate in its operations will do what they have said they will do, that they will act in the public interest and that they will conduct themselves in a manner which does not disrespect the democratic process.
Political scientists use the terms “diffuse” and “specific” to differentiate between trust in the political system as a whole, and trust in individual actors. Asked to rank occupations in terms of trustworthiness, respondents typically place politicians at or near the bottom of the list. Individuals who have first-hand experience dealing with politicians tend to have more positive viewpoints.
Unfortunately, systematic surveys on trust levels in Manitoba are rare, so any discussion must be based on national results.
Beginning in the late 1960s, a slow erosion of trust in Canadian politicians and political institutions began, with only occasional, short-lived upticks. In the summer of 2025, a national Environics survey found that only a minority of Canadians had a lot of trust in political actors and institutions, such as the political parties and Parliament. The survey report also revealed that trust levels had held steady over the past 15 years.
Peter McKenna5 minute readYesterday at 2:01 AM CDT
This was supposed to go down as one of the closest presidential elections in Brazilian history — until it wasn’t. In the end, 80-year-old leftist President Luiz Inácio (Lula) da Silva of the Workers Party bested (by some four million votes) Flávio Bolsonaro, the hard-right Liberal Party leader and senator, by a lopsided 3.5 per cent of the popular vote.
Speaking of Brazilian history, it rarely happens that the second-place finisher in the first round ends up winning the second, run-off contest in such a decisive manner. More significant, Lula has now won an unprecedented (non-consecutive) fourth term as an elected Brazilian president.
While Bolsonaro has waffled on making a concession speech (like his father in 2022), the writing on the wall shows clearly that he lost badly. He has evidently taken issue with a ruling by a justice of the Supreme Court that extended polling hours country-wide by an additional two hours in light of high voter turnout and other interruptions.
Flávio’s supporters, many galvanized around the “never Lula” camp, were desperate for change — even if it meant the kind of change that could turn Brazil on its head. So Lula resorted to one of the oldest political tricks in the campaign handbook — namely, using fear of an anti-democratic Bolsonaro to swing voters to his side (along with a host of last-minute announcements involving financial incentives to Brazilians). With a right-leaning Congress, voters were understandably worried that Flávio would go about systematically dismantling Brazil’s democratic ethos and institutions.
Maureen Scurfield5 minute readYesterday at 2:00 AM CDT
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My husband died a while back, and I don’t miss him! He had grown old in a strange and cranky way, and I’m a cheerful person by nature. It was hard to hear him shoot down every idea I had to go out and do things together.
He wasn’t physically ill — just finished with having any fun. He had gotten depressed and wouldn’t take anti-depressants, although he was fine with getting drunk and critical towards me.
He was particularly negative about seeing friends and relatives, and living the active way we used to — always the first to get tickets to concerts and encouraging other friends to go with us for dinners at new restaurants. We also went to a lot of sports games, and visited friends and relatives. We arrive with lots of good food and drink.
So now when people ask me in that pitying voice used for widows, “Poor darling, how are you doing?” I respond, “He was miserable towards the end, and it was a relief when he died.” They look shocked, but it’s the truth, and they know it.
By Melissa Martin and Ruth Bonneville24 minute readSaturday, Sep. 25, 2010
CAMPERVILLE, MAN. -- Seated in the living room of her tiny, impeccably ordered house, Grace Zoldy takes a little girl's hand and begins a language lesson.
"La viande," the woman says, her hazel eyes dancing under a fringe of silver bangs. "That means meat."
"Deux poisson," she says next, a nod to the goldfish circling a nearby tank. The little girl likes to come watch them. "Two fish."
The sounds are familiar to anyone who took elementary-school French. But Zoldy is not French, and her words aren't either: they are something rare, something studied in universities in countries that Grace, when she was learning these words as a toddler in Camperville, didn't know existed.
