Jimmy Hogg: The Potato King, La Germaine et Le Vieux Criss, and Beyond Ken Dryden.

Me and Her, Mom Ballet, and Love, Sex, and Frenching.

Cabaret of Murder, Comedy Game Showdown, Novacento: Pianiste, and Pindorama.

Attached, Ties, Tandem Jump Live!, Booger Red, and By Our Side.

Are You Listening?, Who Drinks Mocktails on the Beach?!, Admiring Libraians, and The List.

The Singing Psychic Game Show, Shakespeare and the Pearly Gates, My Sister’s Dead… Haha, Cornflake, and Stories From The Brink.

1 Tarentule, Nuit, Late-in-Life Lesbian, Edgar in the Red Room, and 666!

Even when money is hard to come by, we still find ourselves paying to see movies, read books, watch videos, and see theatre. Even when we’re in survival mode, we yearn to witness others’ stories. Whether it’s a comfort movie/show/game that we’ve seen several times or a new piece of media - there’s a wave of catharsis that washes over us when a writer/director/actor/artist really ‘gets’ a situation or emotion we’ve experienced.

My first experience with FringeMTL was in 2013. I’d not been living in Montreal long at this point, and at the time I was focused on poetry and spoken word performance. I wanted to get involved with something theatrical, and took the opportunity to audition for a production in that year’s program.