Script Salon Fringe Script Tease 2025

We’re back with our annual Script Salon Fringe Script Tease on Sunday, August 3 at 7:30PM in the Upper Arts Space at Holy Trinity Anglican Church (10037 84 Avenue)! Doors open at 7PM. Donations are accepted at the door. Refreshments and free parking available. 

Come with your Fringe program, make notes and meet the actors from excerpted plays by the following Alberta playwrights:

Gnaw and Order by Dayna Lea Hoffman and Katie Yoner

The last two rats in Alberta are back, and this time, they’re serving justice. When Fingers and Shrimp are evicted from their Whyte Avenue alley, they’re forced to search for a new three-walled haven. Will they love it? List it? Meet their maker in the jaws of the law? You’ll have to come to the show to find out.

Giorgi of the Jungle by Lynda Celentano

It’s the ​‘80s, and 10-year-old Giorgi Passarelli is devastated when she receives her first social cue that she needs personal grooming, but when her sister Marcella advocates for her with their Italian mother, cultural and generational views of beauty and personal care clash, painful memories resurface, and things in their home get a little…hairy.

Lost Sock Rescue Society by Louise Casemore and Christine Lesiak

A new whimsical delight from the company that brought you the smash hit, FOR SCIENCE!, and the writer/​performer of Fringe favorites OCD and GEMINI. Join Sandra and Sabrina as they do their darndest to find Forever Foot Friends for lost and lonely single socks. Be part of the solution! Learn more at www​.sock​res​cue​.ca.

Charlie’s Riot by Laurel Marie Munro

In 1994 New Brunswick, 17-year-old Charlie grapples with a dark secret. Based on a true story, Charlie’s Riot is a play about bodily autonomy and the transformative power of anger. Immersing the audience in the music and pathos of Riot Grrrl feminist punk, Charlie’s Riot calls ​“girls to the front” of a movement of defiance, humour, and sisterhood.

Something’s Wrong by G.A. Northrup

Extended care facility. End of the Day. The exhausted Administrator is just about out the door when an unexpected appointment shows up. It looks like something’s wrong!

Inherently Disordered by Aldrick Dugarte

An irreverent comedy about the often-fraught intersection of Sexuality and Spirituality in a somewhat-late-in-life coming of age, one-person show.

Elon Muskrat by Josh Languedoc

Casinos, corruption, and control. After a series of unfortunate events, Elon Muskrat is selling his casino empire to the highest bidder. Who will be the lucky winner and what will they really win? This new storytelling show explores what lies on the surfaces of power, and what hides beneath it.

Intermission

Final Girl: A New Musicial by Seth Gilfillan and Stephen Allred

Five teenagers go on a weekend trip to a vacation property, only to find themselves face to face with a masked murderer who begins to kill each of them one by one. After they witness their friends being murdered, the remaining few ask themselves important questions: ​“Why didn’t high school prepare me to defend myself from a psychopathic murderer?” and ​“Who would want to do this to me?” 

Genesis by Moemen Gaafar

On a mission to craft the perfect play, struggling playwright Adam switches roles with his character Eve in a hopeless attempt to break through writer’s block. Genesis is a playful existential dive into love, freedom, and the stories we choose to (or not to) live in.

The Cult of the Clitoris by Celia Taylor

London, 1918. The Great War is raging — and so is the trial of the century. Is a Canadian dancer guilty of treason, lesbianism, and treasonous lesbianism? Is Germany masterminding a sinister homosexual plot? And what exactly IS an orgasm? A scandalous true story of enmity, espionage, and eroticism.

Boston Dip by John Anderson

Ida, Eva, and their mother are attending a dance at Monsieur Adonis’ dance hall, where his new waltz, the Boston Dip, is all the rage. When the patriarch of the family arrives, he mistakenly becomes convinced that his wife is having an affair with a mysterious man under the guise of… the Boston Dip!

The Alberta Hospital for the Insane by Calla Wright

A grotesquely humorous puppet play in the Punch and Judy style, The Alberta Hospital for the Insane follows Gin, a hospital worker in 1930s Ponoka realizing that they are trans within the looming threat of the dust bowl.

Paloma & Joy by Trevor Schmidt

Once a world-famous magical act, Paloma & Joy have seen their star decline. In a desperate attempt to keep their own claws locked into success, they take on a new guest star — a rare and exotic white tiger.