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
Fifty years later, Billy Joe Green can still remember one of the biggest breaks of his career. It was 1971, and his band was asked to become the house band at the Brunswick, an old Main Street hotel and bar.
People would line up around the block to see them, and for a while Green, who was barely out of his teens, could really feel as if he’d made it.
“That was like the high-end place to play for our people,” he says, with a nostalgic smile.
Oh, if the walls of the Main Street strip could talk, they would tell a million stories, and Green would be in a bunch of them. An Ojibwa man and member of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, Green is one of Winnipeg’s most iconic blues guitarists; back then, he was jamming on the Main Street circuit, slinging out country and rock hits.
Re: Khan should’ve taken high road: Goertzen (Oct. 3)
Politics is a tough game. Just ask former provincial Liberal leader Dougald Lamont. He got thrown under the bus by a prominent Manitoba/Canadian Liberal who advised people to vote NDP in the last provincial election.
As Lamont said when he lost the election, he is “human” and what happened to him “hurt.” Khan is also human. It is easy to criticize him for not taking the “high road.”
Lori Ewing, The Canadian Press5 minute readMonday, Jun. 14, 2021
The Leafs' historic rivals — the Canadiens — get going tonight against Golden Knights ... Lou Lamoriello's Islanders drew first blood from the other team that wears blue and white.
Ever been to a Dynacare clinic? Most of us have been. It’s an amazing demographic and ethnic slice of the city we’ve become. Old patients. Young patients. New arrivals. Long-time Canadians. People who know the ropes — others who are startled by the crowds and the noise and the lockstep forward motion of professionals doing what they have been trained to do. It seems, all at the same time, both chaotic and diagnostic, as names of patients are steadily called out and thousands of tests are performed.
But Dynacare is at the centre of a new kind of test and this time, we’re all in the test tube together.
It’s the first real test for new labour law put in place by the government of Premier Wab Kinew in 2024 — a law that redefined what essential services are for provincially-regulated workplaces. Under this law, companies and their employee and unions must have an agreement of which employees are essential — which ones must stay on the job during a legal strike for the protection of the health and safety of the public.
Dynacare had that kind of essential employee agreement with its staff and union — the company and the union had agreed the employees were not essential.
Van Ho was inside his sixth-floor Main Street apartment when he heard a ruckus in the hall around noon Wednesday afternoon.
Ho looked out his window to see police and emergency vehicles surrounding the 10-storey North Point Douglas Manor. When he peeked into the hallway, he saw the body of his next-door neighbour being carried away.
“I thought somebody was fighting, then I open my door and that’s what I see,” Ho saidThursday afternoon.
The Vietnamese immigrant moved to the building four years ago. He said his neighbour, who has not been identified, moved into the Manitoba Housing complex about two months ago, but often caused excessive noise at night and kept him awake.
Along with sipping egg nog and trimming trees, Canadians engaged in another reliable holiday tradition this week: debating whether or not Baby, It’s Cold Outside promotes date rape.
On Tuesday, three of the country’s major broadcasters — CBC, Rogers and Bell Media — announced they’d be putting the chill on the contentious duet, written by American songwriter Frank Loesser in 1944, and would not be playing it on their radio stations this year.
Several American radio stations have also put the song on their naughty lists, arguing it has no place in the #MeToo era.
Through a modern lens, it’s not hard to see how some people might view this song as a woman being pressured into sex by a guy who won’t take no for an answer.
