Introducing the 2024/25 Fringe Theatre Season
If you dig our lil’ Festival in August, we know you’ll love our Fringe Theatre Season.
Music as an act of rebellion and resistance, midwinter stories told in circle and ceremony, and queer expression on the prairies, the Fringe Theatre Season celebrates bold new work by independent Artists.
Each show in our 2024/25 Season will offer American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreted Performances; stay tuned for details. Alphabet Line will also feature Relaxed Performances (dates to be announced).
Fringe Theatre Season Passes are on sale now!
Single Pass: 1 ticket to each of our 3 season shows for $60
Double Pass: 2 tickets to each of our 3 season shows for $120
Individual Tickets: $26, including fees.
Fun fact: by purchasing a Season Pass, you’re saving at least $18!
Single Pass: 1 ticket to each of our 3 season shows for $60
Double Pass: 2 tickets to each of our 3 season shows for $120
Individual Tickets: $26 including fees.
Fun fact: by purchasing a Season Pass, you’re saving at least $18!
Single tickets will go on sale in the fall. Please stay tuned, or sign up for Fringe Fan Club to be first in the know!
Offer What You Will tickets are available for every performance in our Fringe Theatre Season. You may offer any dollar amount you’re able to contribute, or you can offer other non-monetary ways of showing respect and mutual investment, such as tobacco, your own art, or a donation you feel the Artist(s) will benefit from. No one will be turned away.
“Our Fringe Theatre Season is a proof of concept. We’re featuring the work of two emerging Artists who started as Producers at our Festival. It has always been a dream of mine to support the next steps of Artists like AJ and Erik from Festival to Season. And y’all, let me just say, their shows are awesome. ᐋᒋᒧᐃᐧᐣ âcimowin returns curated by MJ Belcourt. In the quiet of the winter season, this indigenous storytelling series is sure to warm hearts.”
– Murray Utas, Fringe Theatre Artistic Director
Brother Rat
Written and produced by Erik Richards
November 29 - 30, 2024
Sickness, family, love and noise. Punk Rock and concrete. A play with music, Brother Rat explores the triumphs and pitfalls of our mental wellness system through the lens of the band Theresa Give Me That Knife as they play a show in downtown Edmonton. Robby, Slayde, and Dianne play their instruments live in a ferocious bid to choose life ahead of grim survival and escape the tangled web of pipe and cable that has led them in and out of public housing.
Adapted from the song Brother Rat / What Slayde Says by Canadian punk band NoMeansNo.
Age Rating: 14+
This show contains: Adult Language/Content, Drugs/Alcohol, Mental Illness/Disorders, Smoke/Fog and Strobe Lights
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ᐋᒋᒧᐃᐧᐣ âcimowin
Curated by MJ Belcourt
March 2025
ᐋᒋᒧᐃᐧᐣ âcimowin, Fringe’s Winter Storytelling Series curated by MJ Belcourt, returns in March 2025 in a celebration of Indigenous storytelling where the word âcimowin carries the essence of story in the Cree language. In the quiet of the season, storytelling warms our spirits, connecting us to our ancestors, culture, and community. As winter blankets the land, our gathering holds special significance. We are joined by Elders who impart traditional wisdom; we hear stories and experience works in process created by Artists local to Treaty 6 and the Métis homeland; we connect in community, in circle.
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Alphabet Line
Written and produced by AJ Hrooshkin
April 25 - May 3, 2025
Set in Yonker, Saskatchewan in the late 1940s, Alphabet Line follows Duncan, a Queer man who has lived on his family farm his entire life. He sends out daily messages via radio in the hope of receiving a response and finally hears from Nicholas, a graduate student from Saskatoon. As the men take refuge in their shared conversations, days pass and both Duncan and Nicholas will have to reckon with each other’s pasts and embrace vulnerability or risk losing all they’ve built.
Age Rating: 14+
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