Canada at the Fringe

Five productions head to Edinburgh in second year of CanadaHub program

Canada is storming back to the renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August with five more productions hoping to follow up on last summer’s success stories.

In 2017, the first year for CanadaHub at the Scottish festival, Mouthpiece from Quote Unquote Collective won two major awards, received more than 15 fourand five-star reviews, and secured tours in Europe and the U.S. And Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story from 2b theatre garnered a two-month, sold-out run in New York and was nominated for six Drama Desk Awards. CanadaHub is produced by Selfconscious Productions in partnership with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Canada High Commission in the U.K..

This year’s productions are:

Chase Scenes from Manitoba’s Ming Hon involves both live action and video projections, inspired by the “collective nightmare of being chased.”

Controversial one-man show Daughter by Toronto’s Adam Lazarus involves a man examining his relationship with his young daughter and with women in general.

Famous Puppet Deaths Scenes from Calgary’s Old Trout Puppet Workshop is described as “a heart-wrenching parade of theatrical demises.”

First Snow, a Quebec/Scottish co-production, will gets its world premiere at the Fringe. It’s about a woman summoning her family back to their ancestral home in Quebec, and features both Canadian and Scottish performers.

Finally, one-man show Huff from Toronto’s Native Earth Performing Arts is the tale of Indigenous brothers struggling with solvent abuse and the death of their mother, with all characters performed by Cliff Cardinal.

The CanadaClub will also return to the Fringe with a late-night show featuring the “best of Canadian cabaret.”