{"id":39363,"date":"2022-09-02T01:51:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T08:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=39363"},"modified":"2022-09-01T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T00:39:00","slug":"at-the-fringe-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2022\/09\/02\/at-the-fringe-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Fringe this year …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rita Sheena (photo by Kristine Cofsky)<\/em><\/p>\n

After an acclaimed run at the Vancouver Fringe Festival in 2021 and the Edmonton and Montreal Fringes this year, Everybody Knows<\/em> returns to its creator\u2019s hometown and the Vancouver Fringe Festival. In this semiautobiographical, one-woman musical set to nine covers of Leonard Cohen songs, Rita Sheena creates a spiraling narrative using contemporary dance, post-modern quirk and the haunting melodies of First Aid Kit.<\/p>\n

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Jem Rolls (PR photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2015, Jem Rolls brought his one-man show about Hungarian Jewish physicist Leo Szilard, The Inventor of All Things<\/em>, to the Vancouver Fringe Festival. This year, he\u2019s back with another show about a forgotten Jewish nuclear physicist \u2013 Lise Meitner. The Walk in the Snow: The True Story of Lise Meitner<\/em> explores how a shy Austrian, who only graduated high school at 23, opened so many doors and achieved so much; how she pushed against age-old sexism and murderous antisemitism; how she was the first or second woman through a whole series of doors; and how she was one of the very few physicists to refuse work on the bomb.<\/p>\n

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ira cooper (photo from spectheatre.com)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vancouver-born, Jewish writer and performer ira cooper of Spec Theatre stars in the one-man show mr.coffeehead<\/em>, which is arriving at the Vancouver Fringe Festival after a series of successful premi\u00e8res at the Winnipeg, Victoria, Edmonton and Montreal Fringes. In Montreal, the \u201cfoot-fueled, slapstick tragedy about bikepacking, dreaming big and giving up in your 30s,\u201d which was written by cooper, was nominated for Outstanding Clown Show.<\/p>\n

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For the whole Fringe lineup, including Katherine Matlashewski\u2019s Disclosure<\/em> (jewishindependent.ca\/the-journey-to-healing<\/a>), visit vancouverfringe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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