Fringe Retro Reading Series
Catch some of the most memorable Fringe plays from the past 24 years with our Retro Reading Series! Join us at the King’s Head Pub to get your Fringe fix and hear the works of playwrights who got their start at the Fringe.
March Retro Reading
Zac and Speth by Rick Chafe
After running away together in 1991 to Vancouver, where they learn about neo-anarchism and run afoul of the law, Zac and Speth spend the next ten years trying to sort out their love affair and stop the American annexation of Canada. Teenage love, the Gulf War, a sexual expatriate, hippies, punks, poverty, and draft beer. A comedy that’s got it all!
Rick Chafe is the writer of Shakespeare’s Dog (MTC) and The Secret Mask, which was presented as part of the 2011-12 Prairie Theatre Exchange season, and is the co-writer of Strike! The Musical.
Director: Christopher Sigurdson
Cast: RobYn Slade, Toby Hughes
Date: Tuesday, Mar. 27, 7:00pm
Location: Upstairs @ The King's Head Pub
Admission: Pay what you can
All proceeds go to the Actors' Fund of Canada
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February Retro Reading
Mind of the Iguana by Brian Drader & Stephen Eric McIntyre
A hit at the 1988 Fringe, this story of a girl and her iguana falls squarely into the fringes of theatre. Bizarre and original, we won't try to explain it. You just have to see it!
Director: Wayne Buss!
Cast: Andrew Cecon, Merry Lang, Stephen Eric McIntyre and Lora Schroeder
Date & Time: Tue. Feb. 7, 2012, 7:00pm
Location: The King’s Head Pub, 2nd floor (120 King St.)
Admission: Pay what you can
Mature Audience (under 18 not admitted)
Warning: Strong language
Running time: 60 minutes
All proceeds go to the Actors' Fund of Canada
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December Retro Reading
Aftertaste by Kevin Klassen
Date & Time: Tue. Dec. 13, 2011, 7:00pm
Location: The King’s Head Pub, 2nd floor (120 King St.)
“That’s what you have to remember about forbidden fruit: it leaves a bitter aftertaste.”
A darkly humorous and unflinching look at what happens when a man’s fundamentalist belief system is intruded upon by the fact of being human. Featuring star appearances by some of your favourite deadly sins.
2002 Harry S. Rintoul Award winner for Best New Manitoba Play at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.
Director: Kevin Klassen
Cast: Charlene Van Buekenhout, Murray Farnell, Chris Sabel, Alicia Johnston
Mature Audience (under 18 not admitted)
Warning: Content, Language
Running time: 60 minutes
Admission: Pay what you can - All proceeds go to the Actors’ Fund of Canada
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