FRINGE REVIEWS
Free Press theatre reviewers spent last week and weekend hopping from venue to venue to get the skinny on all 140-plus productions at this year’s Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, which runs to July 27.
We’ve posted reviews of every play. Find an index of our reviews here, sortable by title and by star review — or if you prefer a bit of serendipity in your review perusal, scroll through 15 pages of reviews in our fringe section (plus profiles, previews and daily happenings).
COMING UP
The intricacies of Indian status, as defined by Ottawa, can be difficult to navigate. However, what is clear is access to treaty rights for many future First Nations children is threatened by a section of federal legislation called “second-generation cut-off.”
Investigative reporter Marsha McLeod explores efforts to repeal the policy, which has been described as discriminatory and assimilationist.
While forest fires rage across Western Canada, a group of experts huddle in a small office in Winnipeg keeping tabs on everything.
Their work is a complicated, highly co-ordinated administrative dance involving partners from around the world.
Reporter Nicole Buffie goes behind the scenes at the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre as Manitoba grapples with one of its worst wildfire seasons on record.
Since the mid-2000s, entertainer José “Pepê” Cortes has held down a Las Vegas-style residency at the Pony Corral Restaurant & Bar three nights a week, entertaining riverside patio diners with toe-tapping favourites.
Feature writer David Sanderson profiles the longtime fixture of Winnipeg’s musical scene.
Jose “Pepe” Cortes on the patio at the Pony Corral on Pembina Highway, where he performs summer evenings. (Brook Jones / Free Press)
In sports, the second half of the American Association of Professional Baseball league picks up Thursday after the all-star break, with the Winnipeg Goldeyes hosting a season-long seven-game homestand at Blue Cross Park. Zoe Pierce catches up with the Fish Thursday in the four-game series opener against the Chicago Dogs, teeing up the team’s hunt for a place in the post-season.
And the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are on the road Saturday in a Grey Cup rematch against the Toronto Argonauts. Joshua Frey-Sam brings the action from the sidelines and the storylines to follow as the Blue and Gold try to get back on a winning streak in Week 8.
Rita Menzies, who died in June at age 82, led one of the most august careers in Manitoba’s arts sector. She was Manitoba Chamber Orchestra’s most formative general manager (a position she held for 25 years), the “saviour” of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, where she solved a $3-million deficit in one year as its interim leader, and a key leader of a number of other arts organization.
Conrad Sweatman talks to her friends, family and peers for this week’s Passages profile.
ONE GREAT PHOTO
A work crew installs scaffolding for the Gimli International Film Festival screen at the beach on Lake Winnipeg Tuesday. The festival, celebrating its 25th anniversary, began today and ends Sunday. See our story. (Don Gislason photo)
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