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Adventures in Family Theatre
Message From The Program Director
Theatre for young audiences is
steeped in the mythology of Fringe
Theatre Adventures. In our 30-year
history, family theatre has been at
the kernel of what we do and who
we are. This year's family adventure
is no exception, and music is the common, magic thread
which ties each of our fantastic presentations together.
Of course you know us best for our International Fringe Theatre Festival and KidsFringe, 11 days of zany performances and family fun in the heart of Old Strathcona. We hope you'll also join us for our Adventures in Family Theatre; a season with us is a great way to travel to worlds beyond our own, as well as deep into our own community. Experience the adventure that is Fringe Theatre.
Enjoy!
Program Director
Jack and the Beanstalk
December 3 – 12, 2010
Adapted by Garner Butler & Jeff Unger
Directed by Farren Timoteo | Music by Jeff Unger
Westbury Theatre
TransAlta Arts Barns
10330 – 83 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
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Jack lives on a fledgling bean farm and, to combat his boredom, he fills his day imagining adventures. One day on his way to market, he meets a mysterious merchant and is whisked away on an epic journey! Jack dangles from a monstrous beanstalk miles from the ground, discovers in an enormous castle beyond the clouds and befriends a Giant. When Jack steals the Giant's beautiful singing harp, the boy is faced with a difficult choice that tests his courage.
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| 2 PM | December 4–5, 11–12, 2010 | |
| 7 PM | December 3–4, 10–11, 2010 |
The Barber of Barrhead
February 17 – 26, 2011
Adapted and directed by Ann Hodges
Westbury Theatre
TransAlta Arts Barns
10330 – 83 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
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A collaboration between Edmonton Opera and Fringe Theatre Adventures takes family fun from Seville, Spain to the Alberta Klondike for The Barber of Barrhead. Prospectors seek and lose their fortunes during the Gold Rush as Figaro, a barber and jack-of-all-trades, works to unite the young Al with his love Rosie, despite devious dealings by the dastardly innkeeper Bart.
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| 7 PM | February 17, 2011 |
Les Parfaits Inconnus
April 8 – 17, 2011
Westbury Theatre
TransAlta Arts Barns
10330 – 83 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
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Les Parfaits Inconnus are a zany medley of circus acts, comedy and electrifying music! Armed with a bicycle, a table, a barrel, a board and a ladder, six eccentric characters meet on stage, each trying to outdo the other in a contest of increasingly outrageous antics. An hour with Les Parfaits Inconnus is one of sheer delight combining laughter, acrobatics, “unbalancing” acts, juggling and music that will rock your soul.
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| 2 PM | April 9–10, 16–17, 2011 |
| 7 PM | April 8, 13–15, 2011 |
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Adventures in Fringe Theatre
Message From The Program Director
I love our company name, Fringe
Theatre Adventures. This great, big
umbrella encapsulates everything
the company represents: a world-class
theatre festival, a prominent,
performing arts facility and an
adventurous theatre season. Being on the Fringe and in
the spirit of adventure this season, we're thrilled to present
you with some of the world's best in mainstage theatre.
You likely already know (and love) our International Fringe Theatre Festival (aka The Fringe), so why not continue the Fringe Theatre experience with our season presentations? Whether you bring friends, your main squeeze or fly solo, this season's shows are a great night out. We look forward to seeing you under our umbrella.
Enjoy!
Program Director
Any Night
October 21 – 31, 2010
Written and performed by Daniel Arnold & Medina Hahn
Directed and dramaturged by Ron Jenkins
Westbury Theatre
TransAlta Arts Barns
10330 – 83 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
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From the writer/performers of the internationally acclaimed Tuesdays & Sundays, and director of the multi award-winning The Black Rider and the Off-Broadway hit Bash'd, comes a new mystery of privacy, paranoia, and violent sleep... A young woman suffering from night terrors and sleepwalking is drawn into a tender romance with the young man living above her. But how does he know her so well? Part romance, part thriller, Any Night is an exploration of that thin line between trust and fear.
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| 8 PM | October 21–24, 26–31, 2010 |  |
Mozart: Ze Komplete Hystery
January 20 – 30, 2011
Written & performed by Rainer Hersch
Westbury Theatre
TransAlta Arts Barns
10330 – 83 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
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Rainer takes his musical character-playing into the realm of pure fantasy with riotous consequence in a display of costume comedy and piano playing you have never heard. Whether you are a music professor or can't tell a Mozart string quartet from string cheese, relax: Rainer Hersch will make you laugh. Really laugh.
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| 8 PM | January 20–23, 25–30, 2011 |
An Evening with Uncle Val
March 3 – 13, 2011
Written by Andy Jones & Michael Jones, Sr.
Performed by Andy Jones | Directed by Lois Brown
Westbury Theatre
TransAlta Arts Barns
10330 – 83 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
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The year is 1987. An indignant, 70-year-old retired fisherman displaced from his outport home, Uncle Val is now trapped in the ‘big city' of St. John's. Homesick, Val struggles to figure out what life has left to offer him.
The hilariously sarcastic Uncle Val muses on Christmas reminiscences, encounters with the Beatles, and the danger of St. John's winters. As he struggles to find his place in ‘city' life, he encounters birth, death and romance; deals with the ongoing drama of his obnoxious son-in-law's pub; and experiences life as a devilish live-in babysitter for his grandchildren, Jimmy and Kimmy.
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| 2 PM | March 13, 2011 |
| 7 PM | March 3–6, 8–12, 2011 |
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| Fringe Theatre Adventures greatly appreciates support from the Government of Alberta's Community Spirit Program |
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