Title/Titre: ArtDeXo
Company/Compagnie: DeXdance, USA

English Description:
Whether engaging a room full of first graders or pushing the boundaries with adults, the ease of performance and the humor of the moment entices even the most wary into a conversation with the dance. DeXdance is very active in New York City and the surrounding area. The company has performed in a variety of traditional and non-traditional venues ranging from beaches on the Jersey Shore, empty store fronts, and other public spaces throughout New Jersey and New York. DeX also takes pride in outreach programs to public schools, private dance studios, and libraries throughout the tri-state area.

French Description:
A venir

Title/Titre: Breaking Down in America
Company/Compagnie: Patrick Devine, Los Angeles, CA, USA

English Description:
Tells the story of what happened when the writer / performer bought a bashed up Cadillac for $500 in Hollywood, California and drove it (as far as he could) across the United States.

Combining storytelling with photos and videos taken during the journey, Breaking Down in America is about one car’s final road trip. It’s about the places seen and the people met along the way. And it’s about the guy who thought doing this was actually a good idea.

Patrick Devine lives in Los Angeles where he has worked as a writer and actor. The Windsor Fringe Festivals is the second Fringe Festival for Breaking Down in America, after the Ottawa Fringe. Next stop is the Minnesota Fringe and then the Chicago Fringe.

French Description:
A venir

Title/Titre: My Little Butterball
Company/Compagnie: Windsor Feminist Theatre, Windsor, ON

English Description:
Christian Bédard’s My Little Butterball is an original Canadian script and score exploring a young woman’s lifelong battle with self-image and weight issues. This engaging, accessible, and heart-warming comedy was originally written in French in 1986 as a one-woman show, and toured Québec and France extensively, but has had little exposure in English speaking Canada.

Since 1986, the relevance of this musical seems only to have increased, as this troubling phenomenon continues to affect more youth, at an even earlier age.

WFT is indebted to the support provided by Ms. Mia Tannous (BANA), Mr. Barry Furlonger, The Downtown Mission, and particularly to both the composer, Kevin Muir, and the playwright, Christian Bédard, who will be traveling from Montréal to attend the festival.

French Description:
A Venir

Title/Titre: One Man Show
Company/Compagnie: Fight Fire With Fuel

English Description:
Most one man shows involve just that, one man. What if there was a second man? Or a third? Can 3 men perform a one man show?

French Description:
A Venir

Title/Titre: The Diary of Anne Frank
Company/Compagnie: Lakeshore Academy of Fine Arts, Puce, ON

English Description:
Lakeshore Academy of Fine Arts presents The Diary of Anne Frank with supplementary student-written monologues and scene direction. Follow the story of Anne Frank through her award-winning journal written as a Jewish teenager during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Seventeen local acting students from 11 – 16 years of age share their own insights as they delve deeper into Anne’s life through specially written bonus scenes. Share their reflections of a young girl with typical adolescent thoughts forced to hide for 2 years, all the while trying to escape certain death!

French Description:
A Venir.

Title/Titre: The Drowsy Chaperone
Company/Compagnie: Walkerville Creative Centre for the Arts Drama Students Edinburgh 2010, Windsor, ON

English Description:
The Tony award winning Canadian musical “The Drowsy Chaperone” was initially conceived and created as a wedding gift. Ultimately, it has become a “gift’ for all people who adore musicals. Described as a musical within a comedy it has been reviewed as a “giggle” of a show and pure fun! Performed at the Rivoli Theatre during Toronto’s Fringe Festival, 1998, WCCA award winning drama students will continue ‘Drowsy’s” fringe heritage with performances in July at Windsor’s 2010 International Fringe Festival and the following month , August, WCCA students will travel to Scotland to perform “Drowsy” at the grande dame of all fringe festivals, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

French Description:
A Venir

Title/Titre: The Imaginary Cuckold
Company/Compagnie: Korda Productions, Windsor, ON

English Description:
Korda Artistic Productions, "among Windsor's most innovative and adventurous theatre companies" (The Windsor Star) presents this hilarious farce by the master of comedy, Moliere. "The Imaginary Cuckold" was Moliere's most popular play during his own lifetime, and today, more than three centuries later, it continues to delight audiences with its clever wit, rollicking rhyme and ridiculous characters. As always, Moliere takes aim at the pompous, wealthy but ultimately ignorant middle class, and hits the mark with perfect precision. In this brilliant farce, a greedy father, a forced engagement, a lost locket and a series of imagined infidelities lead a husband and wife and two young lovers into romantic chaos! Written in rhyming couplet and in translation by Albert Bermel, directed by Korda's Resident Director Jeff Marontate, and with gorgeous 17th century costumes by Kelly Ridley, "The Imaginary Cuckold" is sure to leave audiences laughing, and wanting more!

French Description:
A Venir

Title/Titre: Levitate
Company/Compagnie: Global Village Idiot Productions, Toronto, ON

English Description:
A Comedic inner, outer, under, inside out overview of the spiritual seekers journey in the end times.

Direct from His Gurus Mountain Cave, the humble disciple Swamy Kula The reincarnation of Mirth, sitting in full lotus on his synthetic tiger skin, in traditional saffron monk robes brings the ancient timeless wisdom of the Immortal Eastern Yogi Masters to the stressed out and fast paced West…and Maybe to meet a few pretty girl disciples before the end of the world.

In Levitate the saintly sage Swamy-Kula enlightens his rapt Guru-pi’s (The audience) about the lighter side of light as he expounds on his in depth knowledge of the ancient dusty “Holy Bubble and its Para-bubbles”, distilled from his solitary years of mystic Himalayan Meditations on the “Cosmic Joke”

In a whimsical flow of enchanting repartee of Crazy wisdom, arcane insights, cryptic cosmic zingers, wise cracked philosophy, and funny-sophical esoteric humor, interspersed with fakir miracles, poetic pro-fun-dittys.

French Description:
A Venir

Title/Titre: Lost & Found
Company/Compagnie: Linda J. Lord, H.A.S., Windsor, ON

English Description:
A phone call, 19 years after she gives her infant son up for adoption, thrusts Allyson back into a town and family dynamic that she has systematically avoided. Can she overcome her past and save the son who has demons of his own?

Once again, Linda Lord tells a powerful story in Lost and Found of what it means to be human, to make mistakes, and to embrace forgiveness.

French Description:
A venir.

Title/Titre: Love and Hate In The Postmodern Age
Company/Compagnie: Bio-Punk Productions, Ottawa, ON

English Description:
See the ground breaking show that swept Ottawa and Regina Fringes.

Life is a series of moments which bring strangers together. Every choice that we make in life affects a great multitude of others who we will never meet, both positively and negatively, like ripples on a pond spreading out into the world. In the wake of the Iraq War, 9/11, and a culture of media fear and violence, Love and Hate asks, where do we go from here in the 00s? Using poetry, dance, music, and film noir style narrative, Love and Hate in the Postmodern Age examines the resilience of the human spirit and its ability to triumph over adversity.

Bio-Punk Productions deals with issues facing youth, specifically depression, mental illness, dating, and gender identity. This company works in a collective process with young designers and performers to create products that spread awareness about sidelined social issues.

French Description:
A venir.

Title/Titre: Love Me Never Leave Me
Company/Compagnie: Assumption University Centre for Religion & Culture, Windsor, ON

English Description:
Details to come.

French Description:
A venir.

Title/Titre: The Madness of Oscar Wilde
Company/Compagnie: Glen Allen Pruett/Patricia Ansuini, USA

English Description:
At the height of the Victorian Era of the 1880/90's, Oscar Wilde was at the pinnacle of his success as a playwright, poet and esthete. In May of 1895 he was convicted of "gross indecency" and sent to prison for two years at hard labor. Upon his release from Reading Gaol in May of 1897, he exiled himself to France. There, and in Italy, he wandered alone, disoriented, confused, hungry and penniless, begging from his few friends for sustenance and shelter.

Wandering the Parisian streets, Oscar Wilde stumbles into the back alley of a theatre starving and abandoned. In his battle to regain his sanity, Wilde can only speak using the language of his long poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Cuttings from Wilde's prison letter "De Profundis" are used as well. The show also blends flashes of Beckett, Brecht and Shakespeare, Commedia del Arte, clowning, and song.

French Description:
A venir.

Title/Titre: The Man Who Fell In Love with a Tuba
Company/Compagnie: Purple Theatre Co., Windsor, ON

English Description:
The Purple Theatre Co. has been producing original theatre in Windsor for more than fifteen years. With over a hundred and fifty new productions of original scripts, the Purple People are happy to play the tuba this time ‘round, presenting The Man Who Fell In Love With A Tuba

Tom was finished with women. He thought all that crazy love stuff was behind him. He was content in his job working with elephants at the zoo. But then late one night he heard his neighbour’s tuba….

French Description:
A venir.

Title/Titre: The Nature of Things
Company/Compagnie: Windsor Women Working with Immigrant Women, Windsor, ON

English Description:
WWWWIW is proud to present the Nature of Things - a show that explores the state of our world. It is a thought provoking show that asks questions while challenging the audience to see the beauty, the harshness and the truth through an international lens. It uses eloquent insight into human nature.

French Description:
A venir.

Title/Titre: Raison D'Être
Company/Compagnie: Ecole Secondaire L'Essor, Tecumseh, Ontario

English Description:
A collaborative creation by Ecole Secondaire L'Essor's theatre troupe.

French Description:
Une création collective de la troupe Esprit Essor.

Title/Titre: Shavirez, Gypsy of the Sea
Company/Compagnie: Belzébrute, Quebec

English Description:
Belzébrute is back with a tiny budget mega-production, where puppets deign to share the stage with actors!

Come hear the story of Shavirez, the Gypsy of the Sea, the only gypsy to have set foot in ... all of the Seven Seas! On the menu: revenge, sex, beheadings, bloody duels, naval comabt, tectonic shifts and ... a rubber duckie!

French Description:
Quelque part en Tsiganie, un héros lutte pour sa destinée contre un méchant pirate. Une quête héroïque qui vous mènera jusqu’au bout du monde.

Title/Titre: A Touch of Grey
Company/Compagnie: Schlepping Nachos Productions

English Description:
Four women, four bottles, one night.

Barb (Leslie McCurdy) has the perfect life, or so she's been told. Somewhere down the road, she's gained a husband, kids and a career, but lost her freedom and passion for life. She calls her high school pals Patti (Bonnie Breault), Karen (Candace Hind) and Liz (Tracey Atin) together for a weekend reunion.

Loosening up with a few bottles of wine, each shares their secrets and dreams. But they soon discover that they share much more - burden, responsibility and a deep dissatisfaction for where their decisions have taken them. The best friends reach out to one another for collective wisdom and guidance, but is it enough to set them back on their chosen paths?

A bittersweet coming of middle age comedy. A poignant, soul-searching journey that explores the question; can we have it all and still be truly happy?

French Description:
A venir.

Title/Titre: Who I Am
Company/Compagnie: Break Out Theatre, Windsor, ON

English Description:
Who I Am tells the story for two gay teens, Connor and Andrea and their struggles to find who they are in a world where different isn’t always accepted. The story begins when the two character meet by chance, a meeting that at the time seemed insignificant, but in reality changed both their lives forever. The show contains elements of both song and dance, and is an original piece written by the founders of Break Out Theatre. Who I Am resonates deeply in the heart of the cast as many of us belong to the LGBT community and have gone though similar situations. Join us as we share this story of love, hate, and the reality of the consequences of our decisions.

French Description:
A venir.