The Best of the Halifax Fringe Festival comes to Chester!
Every year, in cities around the globe, Fringe Theatre Festivals present brand new theatre that is boldly creative, excitingly modern, and a whole lot of fun. In this wildly diverse double bill, we present two hit shows which debuted at the 2024 Halifax Fringe Festival: Something Missing and Horse Girls.
Something Missing – Written & Directed by Lawson Hannaford
A Production from the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company
Synopsis: Chester has been dreading this Christmas dinner from the very moment their mother invited them. Not only have their parents recently divorced, but both their mother, Lynn, and their older sister, Abby, are hell-bent on keeping this dinner exactly as it always has been, which is to say happy and light with an insane amount of underlying tension. In Something Missing, Chester muddles through this raw and chaotic evening by repeating the many lists they have written for themselves as a way to organize the consistent disorder of their world.
Winner of FIVE AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS at the 2024 Halifax Fringe Festival including Outstanding Dramedy, Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Projection, Outstanding Performance (Nancy Kenny), and Outstanding Performance at Venue (Imperial Studio).
Horse Girls by Jessie Walker
A production from Around + Out Theatre Company
Synopsis: Welcome to the Atlantic Hobbyhorse Association Provincial Grand Prix! At this prestigious event, competitors from across Atlantic Canada mount their stick-horses to gallop towards the ultimate prize: a chance to compete at the International HobbyHorse Championships in ~Europe~. For Missy and Bridget, only one thing stands in the way of ultimate victory: each other.
Horse Girls is a play about love, friendship, carbo-loading, body-spacial awareness, horsey-promises, potato-battery emporiums, and what it really means to be a champion.
Selected as a finalist for the Toronto Fringe 24-Hour Playwriting Contest, Horse Girls was the winner of SEVEN AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS at the 2024 Halifax Fringe Festival including: Best of Fest, Outstanding Performance (Jessie Walker), Outstanding Direction (Luciana Silvestre Fernandes), Outstanding Comedy, Outstanding New Script, Outstanding Set/Props, and Outstanding Stage Kiss (Intimacy Direction by Ella MacDonald).
Content Notice: Discussion of violence, sex, and death, flashing lights, and loud noises.
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