Author:
Oscar Wilde
(adapted by Nell Corrin)

Comedy 75 min

Company:
Manchester Central Theatre Company
Ashton-Under-Lyne
Greater Manchester, UK

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde's famous comedy of flawed identity. As a baby, Jack was found in a handbag at Victoria Station! He needs to find some parents and a new name to have any chance of marrying Gwendolyn. Droll humour from literature's wittiest writer!

"Oozes class." –Guardian;  "Exquisite." –Observer All Female Cast

Author:
Chris Craddock

Comedy 65 min

Company:
Beefy Geek Productions Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Moving Along

Moving Along is a solo tour de force delivered by Craddock, fresh from his engagement off-Broadway in BASH'd! He runs the lighting design himself with his theatrical invention, The Electro-chair! Craddock's past Fringe hits include: BASH'd, Boygroove (Dora award winning production), Poptart, PornStar, Ha! and Indulgences.

"Craddock is nothing short of BRILLIANT." –Calgary Herald

Author:
Chris Gibbs

Comedy 75 min

Company:
Chris Gibbs
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

The Further Adventures of Antoine Feval

Chris Gibbs (The Power of Ignorance, Hoopal) returns to Edmonton with a new adventure featuring Victorian London's most overlooked detective. The sequel to the 2005 Fringe hit.

"A thrilling dash through the criminal underground of London."
–CBC

"Hilarious." –Winnipeg Free Press

Author:
Eric Davis with Sue Morrison

Comedy 60 min

Company:
Red Bastard
New York, New York
USA

Red Bastard

Red Bastard is a dangerous, seductive comedy-monster. Something interesting must happen every 10 seconds ... and it will! America's Premiere Bouffon unleashes a pompous theatrical master class in this interactive show. Anything can happen when Red Bastard becomes an elitist movement teacher instructing us on the theatre of life.

"Very, very funny." –NY Times

–Irish Theatre Magazine

Author:
Keri Healey

Comedy/Drama 55 min

Company:
WONDER
Seattle, Washington
USA

Cherry Cherry Lemon

A twist of fate brings together an awkward woman and a party girl. Their friendship develops through erotic stories about love, sex, and how one doesn't always mean the other. It is accompanied by live solo guitar.

"...laugh-out-loud comedy mixed with bittersweet moments…" –Seattle P.I.

"Sterling performances." –The Stranger

Author:
Evelyne de la Chenelière (translated by Morwyn Brebner)

Drama 90 min

Company:
Wishbone
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Bashir Lazhar

Fresh from captivating packed houses in Munich, Dresden, and Innsbruck, Bashir Lazhar tells the compelling tale of a substitute teacher who struggles for memory and truth when his unorthodox classroom methods delight his students but draw him into explosive, unpredictable territory.

Timely and deeply moving, Bashir Lazhar is an innovative staging of raw physical impulse and muted desire. It is an acting tour de force, penned by two of Canada's leading theatrical voices.

"Charming. Mesmerizing. Powerful." –Vancouver Sun

Author:
Ryan Gladstone

Comedy/Drama 75 min

Company:
Monster Theatre
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada

The Seven Lives of Louis Riel

A Canadian cowboy comedy! Seven short plays about Louis Riel! Monster Theatre's 10^th year of irreverent, hilarious, intelligent Fringe classics (The Canada Show, The Shakespeare Show, Napolean's Secret Diary).

"Wildly funny, wonderfully crafted and brilliantly acted! Flawless!"  –

"Nothing short of a comic miracle!" –

Author:
David Belke

Comedy 75 min

Company:
20^th Century Belke
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

A Final Whimsy

A Final Whimsy is David Belke's new play for 2009. When sisters Heather and Astrid meet at the church to rehearse a song for their father's wedding, the next day it brings bubbling to the surface the secrets and stories that have coloured their lives. But if the illusions of the past are to be exorcised, one last whimsy needs to be challenged; a heartfelt comedy with music.