PAST STORE EVENTS
The 2009 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
July 15-17, 21-24/09 9pm $8
July 18 and 25/09 3pm
Outside Joke Improv presents
Outside Joke Makes It Up To You: The Fringe Show
Funsters Andrea Del Campo, Chadd Henderson, Toby Hughes, Leif Ingebrigtsen, Jane Testar and RobYn Slade.
 Experience the self-dubbed "anti-musical" - where people, places and things are created from audience suggestion and pulled together nice and tight through narrative and song.
"These six Winnipeg funny folks, though still in their 20s, are allegedly quite the stars on the local improv comedy scene. You can see why . . . Confident and cool; their song-improvising skills are impressive.” - Winnipeg Free Press
“Outside Joke has been building a reputation for delivering consistently quality improv . . . The troupe offered up an hour full of quality, high-energy [improv] that didn’t once fall flat,” - (A+) Uptown
Wed, July 15/09 - Sat, July 18/09 7pm $9
Wed, July 22/09 - Sat July 25/09 7pm
Magic of One presents
Skin Deep: The Fringe Show
Storytellers Kay Stone, Tom Roche and Mary Louise Chown,
with musicians Michael Cobus and Kevin Scott
 Last year’s 4.5 star storytellers are back with more tales and music about the erotic surface and fearful depth of our human nature. It’s skinny and its deep. We will hold you in the palm of our hands and give you no quarter!
The three of us have been separately telling stories for years, trying to
beat the stereotype that storytelling is just for children, and we think
we've done it with these stories. We rehearse with local musicians so that
the stories and music flow into a seamless offering. Magic of One
Productions has been successfully marrying stories and music in our winter
concert series for the last six years. As far as we know, this combination of
story and music is unique in Canadian storytelling.
The local musicians all say that they love their Magic of One gigs...they
get to play their music and also hear great stories.....Michael Cobus and
Kevin Scott will be the Fringe musicians, with a repertoire of modern and
medieval tunes and instruments.
 Kay Stone was born the year the planet Pluto was discovered, and is apparently doing better than her now-demoted planet. She has told stories professionally for three decades, in Canada and out, for children and adults, for fun and often for profit. Her constant companion is Trickster in all his guises, and she will introduce him in his Tibetan form as pot-stealing Uncle Tompa, and as the Coyote who creates the new animal that now dominates this planet. We might be better off on Pluto.
...and now, a man who gets no introduction, Tom Roche
 Mary Louise Chown is a Prairie Chicken who began telling stories in public
in 1973 when she lived in Germany. You have heard her unique take on life
and all that it throws at us at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, the Children¹s
Festival, at Magic of One Concerts, and on CBC Radio. Mary Louise also plays
hammered dulcimer, guitar and percussion with a local folk music band and
she often includes music and song in her stories.
The 2008 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
Wed July 16/08 - Sat July 19/08 8:30pm
Wed July 23/08 - Sat July 26/08 8:30pm Aqua Books, Admission $9
The Seven Deadly Sins: Stories Told After the Fall
- Storytellers Kay Stone, Tom Roche and Mary Louise Chown
with medieval music by Michael Cobus and Kevin Scott
Missing feet, lecherous cobras, Chinese river ghosts; put them all together
and you have the Seven Deadly Sins, as told by Kay Stone, Tom Roche and Mary
Louise Chown.
The three of us have been separately telling stories for years, trying to
beat the stereotype that storytelling is just for children, and we think
we've done it with these stories. We rehearse with local musicians so that
the stories and music flow into a seamless offering. Magic of One
Productions has been successfully marrying stories and music in our winter
concert series for the last 5 years. As far as we know, this combination of
story and music is unique in Canadian storytelling.
The local musicians all say that they love their Magic of One gigs...they
get to play their music and also hear great stories.....Michael Cobus and
Kevin Scott will be the Fringe musicians, with a repertoire of modern and
medieval tunes and instruments.
Kay Stone was born the year the planet Pluto was discovered, and is apparently doing better than her now-demoted planet. She has told stories professionally for three decades, in Canada and out, for children and adults, for fun and often for profit. Her constant companion is Trickster in all his guises, and she will introduce him in his Tibetan form as pot-stealing Uncle Tompa, and as the Coyote who creates the new animal that now dominates this planet. We might be better off on Pluto.
[INSERT TOM ROCHE HERE] (will he fit?)
Mary Louise Chown is a Prairie Chicken who began telling stories in public
in 1973 when she lived in Germany. You have heard her unique take on life
and all that it throws at us at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, the Children¹s
Festival, at Magic of One Concerts, and on CBC Radio. Mary Louise also plays
hammered dulcimer, guitar and percussion with a local folk music band and
she often includes music and song in her stories.
The 2007 Fringe of the Fringe Show
Tues July 24/07 - Sat July 28/07 9:30pm Aqua Books, $8 at the door
Hamster in a Tea Towel: Badd Late Night Storytelling
- Kay Stone, Anne Morton, Tom Roche, Helen Williams, Kate Isaac, and Mary Louise Chown
Come Spin the Hamster!
Winnipeg's finest tale spinners are joined by high class hamsters in their
mink coats, who inspire stories with an unusual twist. Be assured that no
animals lost their lives (recently) during the creation of this show, and
hopefully no storytellers either.
Kay Stone was born the year the planet Pluto was discovered, and is apparently doing better than her now-demoted planet. She has told stories professionally for three decades, in Canada and out, for children and adults, for fun and often for profit. Her constant companion is Trickster in all his guises, and she will introduce him in his Tibetan form as pot-stealing Uncle Tompa, and as the Coyote who creates the new animal that now dominates this planet. We might be better off on Pluto.
 Anne Morton is a native Winnipegger, born on the banks of the Assiniboine. New to storytelling but not to stories, she worked for 25 years in the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives. Stone Soup Storytellers led her astray and now she is interested in telling stories that don’t necessarily have to be true. But things that actually happened make good stories too.
 Helen Janice Williams has spent many years of her life honing her skills
particularly in the area of bear wrestling. She is a level 8 bear- hand wrangler.
Matriculating in Knitting at Peking University has only added to the depth and breadth of her knowledge and interests.
 A home-grown Manitoban, Kate Isaac was born into a story; living flip sides of the city hamster/country hamster saga. From local ditches and roadsides to the far-flung corners of the globe, she bravely gleans her odd assortment of tales. Kate is a duelist of the double-edged sword, preferring stories within stories, built on backbones of humor. A teller for many years, she has taught and told her stories at work-shops, festivals, and for CBC radio. Luckily, she has saved some badly twisted and knotted tales for fringe nights at Aqua Books.
Mary Louise Chown is a Prairie Chicken who began telling stories in public
in 1973 when she lived in Germany. You have heard her unique take on life
and all that it throws at us at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, the Children¹s
Festival, at Magic of One Concerts, and on CBC Radio. Mary Louise also plays
hammered dulcimer, guitar and percussion with a local folk music band and
she often includes music and song in her stories.
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