Ottawa Fringe

After a successful sellout run at Ottawa Fringe, Lungs is back.

Applications to the Open Doors Artistic Mentorship and Performance Opportunity are open until November 29, 2018.

The 22nd Ottawa Fringe Festival runs from June 13–24, 2018 at multiple downtown venues including Arts Court Theatre, ODD Box, La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins and the University of Ottawa.

For the fifth consecutive year, Apt613 will be reviewing all Ottawa Fringe plays on their first night (as much as humanly possible). Every published review is linked below. You can also find these on our Fringe page. A huge thanks to all of our 30 volunteer contributors and to all, enjoy Fringe’s 20th anniversary! #Staystrong $12 […]

40 min | Drama | Mature Oh, boy. OK. Let’s start with the basics. Blackout is a play by a contemporary Scottish playwright, Davey Anderson. It tells the story of a teenage boy who “has been pushed to the edge”, commits a terrible act of violence under the influence of several substances and lots of […]

Review by Amanda Dookie @letitbeamandad 45 min | Comedy | Drama Do you have a secret? Would you be able to turn to the person next to you and share it? For twenty-seven year old Matt, being caught between two people doesn’t make that easy. Tony Adam’s Nebraska is a tale about coming-of-age in the midst of […]

60 minutes | Drama | Mature Like a penal Groundhog Day, Disillusion depicts jail guard Erik Abbott being forced to live out the last days on earth of condemned men whose executions he was involved in. The play is intended as a moral fable– there but for the grace of God go any of us […]

Review by Èva Morin 50 min | Dramedy | PG Written as a play by Jean Cocteau in 1930, La voix humaine tells the classic love story of a girl in love with an unattainable man. The one-act play was later transformed into an opera, with music composed by Francis Poulenc in 1959. For this year’s Fringe […]

Review by Erin Murray 60 minutes | Comedy | G It is so easy to slip into routines. You can repeat the same day over and over so many times, that you begin to forget all other ways of living. Some people welcome the monotony of such a life, repeating the same words to the […]

Review by Andrea Flewelling 60 min / Comedy / PG A satire about the human dynamics behind climate change, Emissions: A Climate Comedy brings us the tale of a modern Adam and Eve (yes, that Adam and Eve) set to the musical stylings of Scott Irving of the PepTides. This is the first play written […]