Wellington Oracle

WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Our Roman spies tipped us off to the location of dangerous agitator H.R. Britton of Jesus Rant, and, imagine the cheek of it, the scandalous heretic was found proselytizing on the very steps of the auditorium!

Hear his testimony below, as the Oracle gives him a one last chance to account for his actions, and repent publicly. After that, we wash our hands of the whole business.

TUESDAY UPDATE: Like a Virgin, Leastest Flops, and total Chaotica– from Jimmy Hogg, Jem Rolls, and Christel Bartelse

MONDAY UPDATE: A tantalizing excerpt from Beverly Wolfe’s one-woman show “Jump”

SUNDAY UPDATE: Kel Parsons pitches Beer Tent – the show with a script so scandalous the author can no longer afford to show her face in public!

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It happened this past Sunday, three doors down from Parkdale Park. The screaming could be heard across the street — so loud a concerned business owner threatened to call the police. After closer investigation he realised there was already an officer on the scene.

As blood curdling as the cries were, it was quickly apparent to passers-by that perhaps the blood wasn’t quite real, the knives were props, and the screams were all in a day’s work for a company of actors rehearsing out of impresario Alan Dean’s studio space on Hamilton Street.

The play they were working on is called Satanic Panic (Or the Death of Al Pacino) and it makes its debut in during the Ottawa Fringe Festival this upcoming weekend.

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Theatre enthusiasts in Hintonburg and Wellington Village have been spoiled for play-going choice for the past nine months with no less than three professional companies running full seasons all within four block radius around the Irving Greenberg/GCTC anchor at Holland and Wellington.

But with Chamber Theatre, GCTC, and Third Wall “put to bed” for the summer, many west end play-goers are feeling the absence of the energy that live theatre brings to our neighbourhood.

Stepping into the void is the timely Ottawa Fringe Festival, just a mere 8 minutes away via Tunney’s Pasture transitway. It centres on Arts Court on Daly, and starts this upcoming Thursday the 18th of June. (more…)