At the Fringe, you pays your money and you takes your chances. But sometimes you want a sure thing, a show by a performer or group with a track record.
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Lanky English performance poet Jem Rolls is a fest fave and one of the best self-promoters, handing out flyers at venues around town when he isn’t onstage. He’s back with the tongue-in-cheek-titled jem rolls’ Leastest Flops (Robert Gill).
His fellow countryman Jimmy Hogg also returns to impress us with his verbal and physical skills in Like A Virgin (Comedy Bar). And UK-born but now Canadian citizen Chris Gibbs draws on his recent fatherhood in Like Father, Like Son? Sorry (Factory Mainspace), in which a new father wonders how to be the best role model for his son.
The physically nimble Aussie Jonno Katz has proved himself here as a solo performer (Cactus) and a director (Manners For Men). His new one-person show, The Accident, is about two unusual brothers and arrives from the Montreal Fringe with raves (George Ignatieff).
Kids’ troupe Cow Over Moon always gets laughs from its audience. Why? Its members are part of the comedy community and know how to tickle funny bones of all ages. This year they’re riffing on the sky-falling-down tale of Chicken Licken (Palmerston Library).
