The Bus Stop Theatre
2203 Gottingen Street
Actual Wizard
Vincenzo Ravina
In this unusual magic show, actual wizard and Halifax magician Vincenzo Ravina (as seen on the CW’s hit show, Penn & Teller: Fool Us) will emerge from his mysterious smoke-filled cave to show you some strange stuff.
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Booger Red
Booger Red survives a rough childhood to become a renowned Hellfire and Brimstone Southern Baptist preacher. Can Preacher’s Kid Jimmy find a way out from under Booger Red’s larger-than-life shadow as he grows up and finds his own voice? If you’ve ever had a dream or a daddy, Loucks’ gritty and passionate solo performance is for you.
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Caught by the Catcher
Live leaves falling down, tripping on a short branch. We’ll say it was an accident, how easily their lives end. Fragility, sadly, depending on the weather. Three groups of survivors of an alien invasion struggle to remain hidden. Cast ashore a small island with a mainland view. Where the only way off and the easiest way out are one in the same. A science fiction of alien domination, and what generations move forward triumphantly.
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El Diablo Of The Cards 2.0
International award winning clown/magician, Ewerton Martins returns to Halifax Fringe with an astonishing new show: El Diablo of the Cards 2.0. Ewerton is crossing 52 countries thrilling audiences with a unique card magic style that combines improvisation and clown madeness. El Diablo of The Cards is a once in a lifetime opportunity to have your mind blown by an authentic Brazilian Master Cardshark!
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F*cking Trans Women – a play reading
In a world that is fully saturated with the cis-hetero-male gaze, “F*cking Trans Women” is a rare and refreshing reminder that all bodies are deserving of intimacy, respect, and sexual pleasure. Starring Zoë Comeau, this reading provides audience members an opportunity to come face to face with our own insecurities about intimacy, as well as equipping us with tools to better communicate our needs and desires in our relationships. This play reading is the first step towards the creation of a fully animated production of love and acceptance.
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F**K Island
The hottest new reality tv show! These sexy singles have c*m together to learn the true meaning of love, here on F**K Island!
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HARD CHEESE
“Hard Cheese” is British slang for bad luck—which is exactly how Carly feels about finding love. But in a swipe-and-ping world, can a 37-year-old writer meet her match at an in-person mixer? Featuring characters inspired by the playwright’s real romantic history, HARD CHEESE proves that speed dating can be a slow burn.
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Knight of the Bat
“Holy Parody!” By night, Londontown’s favourite playwright/playboy Will Shakespeare dons the mantle of the Cloaked Crusader: the fearsome Knight of the Bat. When faced with an apocalyptic ultimatum, Sir Bat and his squire Robin Goodfellow must square off against an entire gallery of rogues in a race against time.
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Live, Laugh, Lipsynch
I LIVE… Laugh, Lipsynch is the show for basic b’s by basic b’s. So, join Brooke Rivers,Trinity Foxx & Hunni Kruller as the wheel of Destiny (‘s Child) decides whether they ‘LIVE’, ‘LAUGH’, or ‘LIPSNYCH’. At random and in a different order each night these queens will need to share real life stories, make you LOL with sickening comedy and make you SCREAM with iconic lip syncs.
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Non-Binary Finery: Fringe Edition
Acts ranging from Drag, to dance, to music, to burlesque, to presentations, Digital works, talks, stories and more. What can’t we do?
NonBinary or any gender diverse identity including, but not limited to Two-Spirit, Genderfluid, Agender, Intersex, Bigender, Demigender, Genderflux, Genderqueer, Neutrois, Polygender, Queer, Transfemme, Transmasc +
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One Rare Bird
On a remote island, just East of Nowhere, Nathalie Grant is waiting: waiting for a very elusive bird to perform it’s legendary dance. One Rare Bird is a story about how we come to see ourselves through other people, or sometimes, other birds. It celebrates the variety, strangeness, creativity and brilliance of bird behaviour and asks the audience to celebrate the same in themselves.
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Reefer Madness: A Comedy Hypnosis High
Marijuana-themed comedy hypnosis show. Audience volunteers are hypnotized on stage to experience a high better than any available bud. Comedy routines involving altered states of reality.
(Re)Tired Magical Black Man
(Re)Tired Magical Black Man will take you on a 60-minute magical caper. With help from their puppet friends, and maybe even you, dJerald the Djinn unretires to fulfill an impossible wish — Stealing World Peace from the oligarchs!
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Ritual Music to Cure a Lover
Ritual Music to Cure a Lover, is the story of forbidden love, a family divided by long-held secrets, and a community trying to find balance between traditional ways and the modern world. The play culminates in a Zaar/Exorcism ceremony, intended to rid a young man of the “sickness” of his love for an outcast woman, that ultimately reveals a father’s long-buried secrets.
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