Catchin’ a Surprise

Art by Dave Pruden

July 25th-

My favourite part of Fringe is hearing about shows that flew under the radar, or where someone had some space in their schedule and just went to a show they hadn’t heard about and saw something amazing. We are at 136 shows reviewed as of Thursday morning, but we won’t get to them all. If you have seen any of the ones we have not covered, please send us in a review.

The Fabulous Jenny Awards—Since we are closer to the end of the Fringe than the beginning, it is high time I let you know about how we close out the Fringe. Join us Sunday July 28th at Across the Board Game Cafe (accessible and licensed) for our wrap party/awards show. We will have 13 crazy categories to celebrate as many shows as we can fit in. The crowd decides who should win as determined by crowd noise carefully analyzed by our human sound meters. The winner can make a short acceptance speech and receives one of the highly coveted hand sewn Jenny Awards. Winners must be present to accept. Doors open at 9:30pm and the show will start at 10ish. I hope to see you there!

The 13th Jenny Award, an Ass Backward Category—Speaking of the Jenny Awards, the Instagram poll for our previously mentioned Ass Backwards category should be online (in two parts) so keep an eye out. The poll includes the 8 companies that have liked/followed/shared our Jenny Instagram posts the most during the Fringe. They are:

  • ImproVision: Nicolas Cage Match
  • Buying Bacon
  • Love, Death + Rascals
  • Letters from a Space Girl in Love
  • A One Human Being, Potentially Comedic Performance of The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • House of Gold
  • Nuit
  • The Mailroom

Editor Note: Apologies to Nuit who got auto-corrected to ‘Unit’ in the poll.
The winner will be added to list of contenders for a special Jenny Award.

-Murray Hunter