TK Fringe

William Alex Larson is a Juggler, Circus Theatre artist, and current student at L’École de cirque de Québec. He has performed in such venues as the International Jugglers’ Association Festival, Denver Fringe Festival, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and numerous juggling festivals in the United States and Canada. He is proud to present his work for you as well!

Thursday, Aug. 3 - 6:40pm
Saturday, Aug. 5 - 3:30pm
Sunday, Aug. 6 - 5:00pm
Monday, Aug. 7 - 1:40pm
Tuesday, Aug. 8 - 7:00pm
Friday, Aug. 11 - 8:40pm
Saturday, Aug. 12 - 3:40pm
Sunday, Aug. 13 - 1:40pm

“Things didn’t turn out the way I expected either baby.”

​Kate attempts to reconcile the death of her infant son and the disappearance of her mother when she was young. Bittersweet, the play focuses on Kate's attempt to move on with her life while reflecting on choices, consequences, and her obsession with Demi Moore.

Trigger warning: death of an infant, mental health, abandonment, and some strong language

Friday, Aug. 4 - 6:40pm
Saturday, Aug. 5 - 8:40pm
Sunday, Aug. 6 - 5:00pm
Monday, Aug. 7 - 12:00pm
Thursday, Aug. 10 - 5:20pm
Friday, Aug. 11 - 3:20pm
Saturday, Aug. 12 - 8:40pm
Sunday, Aug. 13 - 1:40pm

​The scene is set in 1972, the year prohibition was repealed (yes, 1972!) in the small, working-class city of Owen Sound—a town that has seen better days but which is still full of rough-around-the-edges dynamism. We follow our hapless narrator as he licks his wounds after a doomed love with a truly remarkable woman burdened with an angel’s wings. The story is at once wrenching yet full of dry humour, as the tough narrator's defences get broken down and his hard-boiled comments get replaced by sublime pathos.

Thursday, Aug. 3 - 5:00pm
Friday, Aug. 4 - 8:20pm
Saturday, Aug. 5 - 7:00pm
Sunday, Aug. 6 - 1:40pm
Monday, Aug. 7 - 5:00pm
Tuesday, Aug. 8 - 7:00pm
Wednesday, Aug. 9 - 3:20pm
Thursday, Aug. 10 - 8:40pm

Long time Fringer John D. Huston returns to the Kingston Fringe after 31 years with his solo show CREEPING MURMUR; PORING DARK. “A good creeper…by…John D. Huston…master storyteller” VUE Magazine**** The 60 minute show, a collection of ghost stories, each told by a different character, was a hit when Huston toured it to Fringes in Ottawa, Winnipeg and Edmonton. The four stories Huston performs come from the “Golden Age” of the ghost story 1890 - 1930. “classic horror performed straight “ UPTOWN **** “There aren’t any chainsaw wielding lunatics” notes Huston, “but if you dim the lights and give your self over to the story these characters will still have you checking under the bed before you close your eyes.” “I nearly jumped out of my skin” CBC Winnipeg ****1/2 Not content with just performing the stories Huston jumps between characters, challenging his audience to keep up. “It’s a bit like channel surfing episodes of “Twilight Zone” or “Black Mirror”. I felt that audiences are used to doing that with television and they could follow it in performance.”

Monday, Aug. 7 - 12:20pm
Monday, Aug. 7 - 8:40pm
Tuesday, Aug. 8 - 1:40pm
Wednesday, Aug. 9 - 3:20pm
Thursday, Aug. 10 - 2:00pm
Friday, Aug. 11 - 4:30pm
Saturday, Aug. 12 - 2:00pm
Sunday, Aug. 13 - 12:00pm

A festival within a festival within a festival presenting improvised plays based on the titles of shows taking place at Fringes across the country at the same time as the Kingston Fringe.

Did you know that there are 6 other Fringe Festivals happening across the country over the course of this year's Kingston Fringe? The Canadian Organization of Fronge Festivals (COFF) is here to offer you a sampling from the Canadian Fringe smörgåsbord with The Fronge Festival! Each performance, we will present some never-before-seen plays that are currently actually playing in some other Canadian city. The audience gets to pick the play from a programme provided, and we will make up the rest. You'll never need to go to PEI, Saskatoon, Calgary, North Bay, Nanaimo, or Guelph ever again!

Saturday, Aug. 5 - 12:00pm
Sunday, Aug. 6 - 8:20pm
Monday, Aug. 7 - 1:40pm
Tuesday, Aug. 8 - 8:40pm
Thursday, Aug. 10 - 1:40pm
Friday, Aug. 11 - 7:00pm
Saturday, Aug. 12 - 5:20pm
Sunday, Aug. 13 - 8:20pm

The harrowing pasts of three young women become inextricably woven together as they struggle to co-exist in an inner-city halfway house under a supervisor with issues of her own. Each of them is floundering and falling apart, while a naive brother materializes and attempts to mend the broken pieces of his splintered image of an idyllic home.

"Girls Unwanted" is the premiere production of a gripping and startlingly haunting exploration of survival through rampant selfishness, aggression and moral decay in contemporary urban culture. Provocative, satirical, and fearless, this new play shines a dim light into the darkest of corners, just as we've come to expect from one of Canada's most renowned and gritty playwrights, George F. Walker.

Op Knox Entertainment presents "Girls Unwanted", by George F. Walker, directed by Will Britton at the Theatre Kingston Fringe in August 2023.

Saturday, Aug. 5 - 7:20pm
Sunday, Aug. 6 - 6:20pm
Monday, Aug. 7 - 2:00pm
Tuesday, Aug. 8 - 6:40pm
Thursday, Aug. 10 - 6:20pm
Friday, Aug. 11 - 7:30pm
Saturday, Aug. 12 - 4:00pm
Saturday, Aug. 12 - 8:10pm

​Krapp's Last Tape is a 1958 one-act play, in English, by Samuel Beckett. With a cast of one man, it was written for Northern Irish actor Patrick Magee and first titled "Magee monologue". It was inspired by Beckett's experience of listening to Magee reading extracts from Molloy and From an Abandoned Work on the BBC Third Programme in December 1957.

It is considered to be among Beckett’s major dramas. Jim Garrard stars.

Thursday, Aug. 3 - 6:40pm
Saturday, Aug. 5 - 5:10pm
Sunday, Aug. 6 - 3:20pm
Monday, Aug. 7 - 6:40pm
Wednesday, Aug. 9 - 7:00pm
Thursday, Aug. 10 - 3:20pm
Friday, Aug. 11 - 5:20pm
Sunday, Aug. 13 - 3:20pm

Mary Louise invites her newest internet “friend” over for coffee.

It’s complicated…She’s complicated.

HE PICKED THE WRONG OLD LADY THIS TIME

Thursday, Aug. 3 - 8:00pm
Friday, Aug. 4 - 4:00pm
Saturday, Aug. 5 - 2:00pm
Sunday, Aug. 6 - 4:20pm

Sandra is having another hard day with her husband, Roy, who lives with dementia. As she tries to get him to his appointment, an unwanted stranger arrives and turns a bad day into a nightmare.

Thursday, Aug. 10 - 4:30pm
Friday, Aug. 11 - 9:10pm
Saturday, Aug. 12 - 5:30pm