Come for lunch, stay for The Surprise

Posted:

Advertisement

Advertise with us

MORE zaniness and dramatic moments from the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival come to the Free Press News Café on Tuesday afternoon.

Read this article for free:


or

Already have an account? Log in here »

To continue reading, please subscribe:

Subscribe and receive a limited-edition Free Press branded hat or tote.

Digital Subscription

One year of digital access for only $205*

  • Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
  • Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
  • Access News Break, our award-winning app
  • Play interactive puzzles

*First annual payment billed as $205.00 + GST for one year. This annual subscription will automatically renew at $233.00 + GST every 52 weeks (10% off the regular annual price of $259.35). Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers only. Cancel any time.

To continue reading, please subscribe:

Add Free Press access to your Brandon Sun subscription for only an additional

$1 for the first 4 weeks*

  • Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
  • Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
  • Access News Break, our award-winning app
  • Play interactive puzzles
Start now

*Your next Brandon Sun subscription payment will increase by $1.00 and you will be charged $17.95 plus GST for four weeks. After four weeks, your payment will increase to $24.95 plus GST every four weeks.

Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 22/07/2014 (4435 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

MORE zaniness and dramatic moments from the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival come to the Free Press News Café on Tuesday afternoon.

Four more free performances and interviews begin at 12:30 p.m. at the lunch spot at 237 McDermot Ave., where Martin Dockery and Vanessa Quesnelle, stars of The Surprise and Moonlight After Midnight, sit down for an interview and perform an excerpt from The Surprise.

At 1 p.m., local DJ Sarah Michaelson joins Colombian performers Felipe Ortiz and Daniel Orrantia for a short scene from Speechless.

Justin Danyluk, Lorraine James, Reba Terlson and Jazmyn Shell from Winnipeg’s Dramatic Theatre perform a scene from their fringe show Vampire Lesbians of Sodom at 1:30 p.m.

Finally, at 2 p.m., Ian McFarlane, Genevieve Paré and Ryan Reese will drop by to talk about their show, The Hudson Bay Epic.

Related Articles

Winnipeg Fringe Festival: 2026 show reviews
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Fringe Festival posters and sandwich boards line the sidewalk along Market Avenue beside the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre.
Level up your fringe experience
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Fringe festival posters and sandwich boards line the sidewalk along Market Avenue beside the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre.
Fringe a reminder we’re all playwrights and performers in our own lives
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Tait Palsson, a.k.a. T8 the Gr8, juggles for passers-by at the Fringe Festival kickoff at Old Market Square earlier this week.
Fringe fest sets attendance record Fringe Fest looks headed to record numbers
Winnipeg Free Press John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press Genevieve Pare (from left), Ryan Reese and Ian McFarlane promote their play The Hudson Bay Epic.
Fringe fest heading to attendance record Fringe continues record-setting pace
Submitted photo 2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick: A Dirk Darrow Investigation is a pun-filled psychic detective caper at Venue 5, Son of Warehouse.
Patron PICKS top 20 fringe reviews july 24 uptown pullout The reign of Jane
?�
Creative couple have marriage of the mind
Oliver Sachgau/ Winnipeg Free Press Katie Hartman and Nick Ryan created The Legend of White Woman Creek together.
When in Rome...
The cast of Quo Vadis is huge by fringe standards.
Fringe festival on record pace, so far
John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press David Ladderman performs in Lizzie and the Ladderman at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival Sunday. More than 40,000 tickets have been sold so far this year.
Fringe flap gets ugly
JOE BRYKSA / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Theresa Thomson inside her car that was defaced recently, part of the intimidation the actress has faced over the play Lies of a Promiscuous Woman that some have blasted as blasphemous.
Sometimes two bucks can change your life
Oliver Sachgau/ Winnipeg Free Press Andrea del Campo's life path was changed when she first saw improv.
Ties that bind
Shibari, or rope bondage, has been practised in Japan for centuries.
Fringe performer reports harassment in response to play's content
By Monkey Centurion Theresa Thomson had her car vandalized for her role as the Virgin Mary’s at this year's fringe festival.
Luck, talent and a whole lotta hard work
Oliver Sachgau / Winnipeg Free Press David Johnston (right) says he doesn't do theatre for the money, though it would be nice to one day make enough to live. Right now, he says he's focused on his craft.
Super man
Confessions of an Operatic Mute
10 fringe reviews satruday july19
10 fringe reviews satruday july19
Rope and roller skates? Just another News Café day
Martin Kolbus and Stephanie Graham of the Winnipeg Shibari Theatre Company, who will perform a scene from their Japanese rope bondage play 340 ft.
12 fringe reviews saturday july 19
12 fringe reviews saturday july 19
Fringe plays produce intense friendships
Liz Whitbread and Kristen Einarson of Little Red.

Advertisement Advertise With Us

Report Error Submit a Tip

Advertisement

Learn more about Winnipeg Free Press Advertising solutions

More Stories

Evaluating the athletic complaint process

Mac Horsburgh 4 minute read 2:00 AM CDT

Be careful what you wish for.

The fervent desire of our Canadian sports communities to attain objectivity in processing complaints has led to the creation of a completely unregulated industry for complaint investigations.

As it stands, professional self-regulation has been criticized for operating in its own self-interest rather than the public interest.

But now we have a new Independent Third Party (ITP) industry which operates without licensing or oversight in carrying out its duties relating to reviewing and conducting investigations into athletic complaints.

The Canadian and United States flags were lowered to half mast at a commemorative ceremony to mark the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks against the U.S., in Gander, N.L., on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002. (CP PICTURE ARCHIVE/Andrew Vaughan)

Chrétien says Canada bows to no one in fiery address at 9/11 commemoration

Sarah Smellie, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Preview

Chrétien says Canada bows to no one in fiery address at 9/11 commemoration

Sarah Smellie, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 8:15 PM CDT

GANDER - Former prime minister Jean Chrétien drew a standing ovation inside a Gander, N.L., hockey arena on Friday as he delivered a pointed message to American leaders during a ceremony marking the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, 25 years ago.

The 92-year-old warned Americans never to mistake Canadian generosity for weakness, nor its kindness for softness.

U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra looked on as Chrétien insisted his pointed words were a sign of friendship. Friends tell each other the truth, he said.

“We embraced our friends and we helped them in their moment of need, but we bow to no one,” Chretien said, as the crowd erupted again.

Read
Updated: Yesterday at 8:15 PM CDT

Former interim police chief to retire

1 minute read Yesterday at 1:19 PM CDT

After nearly five decades with the Winnipeg Police Service, deputy chief Art Stannard is retiring.

WPS Chief Gene Bowers noted the departure during a Winnipeg Police Board meeting Friday.

“If you ever had a question you went to Art … That’s a long period of time (in) his life that he gave to our members and our city,” said Bowers.

Stannard began working for the WPS in 1978 and spent time in almost every division since that point, most recently in support services.

Mike Sudoma/Free Press A group watches the Sunday night cruise along a boulevard on Portage Ave near Valour Rd August 9, 2026

Sunday-night auto aficionados work to steer away from unwelcome elements they say aren’t a part of their tradition

Zoe Pierce 12 minute read Preview

Sunday-night auto aficionados work to steer away from unwelcome elements they say aren’t a part of their tradition

Zoe Pierce 12 minute read Yesterday at 1:37 PM CDT

The red 1969 Dodge Coronet Super Bee out for a cruise on Portage Avenue draws admiring eyes from onlookers on a recent Sunday night, many of them seeing a specimen of the now-rare muscle car for the first time on a Winnipeg street. Or any other street, for that matter.

Longtime car enthusiast Bob Sudoma was behind the wheel, participating in the decades-old show-offy summer tradition.

The Sunday night cruise is built around a simple idea: proud car owners take their beloved vehicles for a spin to meet up with others of the same autophile ilk.

Less-fortunate appreciators, or just curious folks, also gather along the route to watch the highly-polished parade. Portage Avenue is one of cruise night’s best-known stretches.

Read
Yesterday at 1:37 PM CDT
Come for lunch, stay for The Surprise

Come for lunch, stay for The Surprise

1 minute read Preview

Come for lunch, stay for The Surprise

1 minute read Tuesday, Jul. 22, 2014

MORE zaniness and dramatic moments from the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival come to the Free Press News Café on Tuesday afternoon.

Four more free performances and interviews begin at 12:30 p.m. at the lunch spot at 237 McDermot Ave., where Martin Dockery and Vanessa Quesnelle, stars of The Surprise and Moonlight After Midnight, sit down for an interview and perform an excerpt from The Surprise.

At 1 p.m., local DJ Sarah Michaelson joins Colombian performers Felipe Ortiz and Daniel Orrantia for a short scene from Speechless.

Justin Danyluk, Lorraine James, Reba Terlson and Jazmyn Shell from Winnipeg's Dramatic Theatre perform a scene from their fringe show Vampire Lesbians of Sodom at 1:30 p.m.

Read
Tuesday, Jul. 22, 2014
Tim Smith / Brandon Sun files Storm clouds hover over a crop in the Westman region last month. A series of deluges over the past four weeks has dogged harvest time.

Multiple factors add up to difficult harvest

Laura Rance-Unger 4 minute read Preview

Multiple factors add up to difficult harvest

Laura Rance-Unger 4 minute read 2:00 AM CDT

Earlier this month, farmers sent agriculture publications some heartbreaking photos showing how heavy rains across the Prairies had pummelled a promising harvest.

An idled combine up to its axles in a flooded Saskatchewan field, straw bales surrounded by water and field equipment stranded on the far side of a washed-out section told the obvious story.

The Sept. 6-7 event was just the latest in a series of heavy rainfall events that have plagued this year’s growing season. Similar deluges hit different regions July 15-17, Aug. 14, and Aug. 31 — some of which were accompanied by tornadoes.

“What’s made this season challenging is the intensity of these rainfalls,” said Manitoba Agriculture ag meteorology specialist Alison Sass as she reviewed the summer’s weather patterns on an extension webinar.

Read
2:00 AM CDT