Reviews from the 2016 Winnipeg Fringe Festival
CBC Review Crew | CBC News | Posted: July 8, 2016 8:33 PM | Last Updated: July 21, 2016
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Are you ready to Fringe fearlessly? You can check out all of our 2016 reviews right here by rating or title.
The CBC Review Crew attended over eighty shows in the first few days of the festival — read their reviews below! To see the full Fringe listings, head to the official Winnipeg Fringe website.
Reviews by rating
★★★★★ Five Stars:
- 2 for Tea
- Bizarro Obscure
- Blindside
- Brave Hearts
- C-
- Diamond Girls
- The Elephant Girls
- Fruit Flies Like a Banana
- God is a Scottish Drag Queen IV
- In Search of Cruise Control
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Mike Delamont: Mama's Boy
- Nashville Hurricane: A Curious Tale of Fingerpickin' Fury
- Old Times
- Papa Squat
- Peter 'n' Chris present: Here Lies Chris
- Promise and Promiscuity: A New Musical by Jane Austen and Penny Ashton
- Space Hippo
★★★★ Four Stars:
- Absolute Magic
- African Folktales with Erik de Waal
- Bella Culpa
- A Brief History of Beer
- Burn Job
- Charlatan!
- The Collector
- Comedy Isn't Funny Anymore
- Delirium
- The Drowning Girls
- Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany
- Erik de Waal's Head in the Clouds
- Falling Awake
- Gary
- GET LOST jem rolls
- Gossamer Obsessions: Wilt
- Happiness™
- Hunks
- Icarus
- Jazz Cat
- The Jupiter Rebellion: A Zach Zultana Adventure
- Lantern Town
- Let Me Freeze Your Head
- A Little Business at the Big Top
- My Dreams Are Stupid
- Not Enough
- One Woman Sex and the City: A Parody of Love, Friendship and Shoes
- Perpetual Wednesday
- Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes
- Shakespeare Crackpot
- Shakespeare's Histories: Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace!
- The Polka Dots of Death: The Making of a Supervillain
- Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- zahgidiwin/love
★★★ Three Stars:
- 5-Step Guide to Being German 2.0
- 6 Quick Dick Tricks: A Dirk Darrow Investigation
- Best Picture
- Brain
- Breakneck Hamlet
- Corner Of
- Curious Contagious
- Dystopia! The Hungry Maze Game of Divergent Death
- Everybody Dies in December
- Gimpel the Fool
- Girl's End: A Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
- The Guitar Teacher: An Arctic Romance
- Happy Birthday... to the end of the World
- Heavenly Bodies
- The Humourists
- Lovely Lady Lump
- No, YOU Can't Return Discount Shrimp!
- OCD
- One Man Dark Knight: A Batman Parody
- Paradise Lost
- Seducing Father Brian
- A Small Idea
- Sold Out
- A Story of O's
- A Tension to Detail
- Travails With My Aunt
- Vasily Djokavich: Russia's #1 State Approved Comedian
- A Walk with Raven and Coyote: Stories of Transformation
- War and Peace
- The Writing on the Stall
★★ Two Stars:
- 2-Hander!
- Blizzard
- Flesh-Coloured Crayons
- Jonno
- Noir in Blue
- Phoebe's Fractured Fairy Tales
- President Bear
- The Sh!t Show: An Original Turd
- Songs for a New World
- Victory for the Recycled Virgin
- Weirder Thou Art
- The World of the Brothers Grimm
★ One Star:
Reviews from A to Z
- 2 for Tea
- 2-Hander!
- 5-Step Guide to Being German 2.0
- 6 Quick Dick Tricks: A Dirk Darrow Investigation
- Absolute Magic
- African Folktales with Erik de Waal
- Barbaric Cultural Practices: The Musical
- Bella Culpa
- Best Picture
- Bizarro Obscure
- Blindside
- Blizzard
- Brain
- Brave Hearts
- Breakneck Hamlet
- A Brief History of Beer
- Burn Job
- C-
- Charlatan!
- The Collector
- Comedy Isn't Funny Anymore
- Corner Of
- Curious Contagious
- Delirium
- Diamond Girls
- The Drowning Girls
- Dystopia! The Hungry Maze Game of Divergent Death
- Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany
- The Elephant Girls
- Erik de Waal's Head in the Clouds
- Everybody Dies in December
- Falling Awake
- Flesh-Coloured Crayons
- Fruit Flies Like a Banana
- Gary
- GET LOST jem rolls
- Gimpel the Fool
- Girl's End: A Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
- God is a Scottish Drag Queen IV
- Gossamer Obsessions: Wilt
- The Guitar Teacher: An Arctic Romance
- Happiness™
- Happy Birthday... to the end of the World
- Heavenly Bodies
- The Humourists
- Hunks
- Icarus
- In Search of Cruise Control
- Jazz Cat
- Jonno
- The Jupiter Rebellion: A Zach Zultana Adventure
- Lantern Town
- Let Me Freeze Your Head
- A Little Business at the Big Top
- Lovely Lady Lump
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Mike Delamont: Mama's Boy
- My Dreams Are Stupid
- Nashville Hurricane: A Curious Tale of Fingerpickin' Fury
- nerdf*cker
- No, YOU Can't Return Discount Shrimp!
- Noir in Blue
- Not Enough
- OCD
- Old Times
- One Man Dark Knight: A Batman Parody
- One Woman Sex and the City: A Parody of Love, Friendship and Shoes
- Papa Squat
- Paradise Lost
- Perpetual Wednesday
- Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes
- Peter 'n' Chris present: Here Lies Chris
- Phoebe's Fractured Fairy Tales
- The Polka Dots of Death: The Making of a Supervillain
- President Bear
- Promise and Promiscuity: A New Musical by Jane Austen and Penny Ashton
- Seducing Father Brian
- Shakespeare Crackpot
- Shakespeare's Histories: Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace!
- The Sh!t Show: An Original Turd
- A Small Idea
- Sold Out
- Songs for a New World
- Space Hippo
- A Story of O's
- A Tension to Detail
- Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- Travails With My Aunt
- Vasily Djokavich: Russia's #1 State Approved Comedian
- Victory for the Recycled Virgin
- A Walk with Raven and Coyote: Stories of Transformation
- War and Peace
- Weirder Thou Art
- The World of the Brothers Grimm
- The Writing on the Stall
- zahgidiwin/love