FALLOUT FRINGE FESTIVAL 2026-Day 6

By Erik Engman

Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com

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It’s day six of the Fallout Fringe Festival, and I attended two new shows plus one new venue! Prepare yourself for a dystopian nightmare and a meeting with God himself. Here is the next batch of reviews. You can access the full schedule at www.falloutfringe.org/schedule. 

Where Words Once Were by Finegan Kruchmeyer   

Satisfying ★★★ 1/2

We find ourselves in a dystopian future where the citizens of The City are only allowed to use 1,000 approved words. Break these rules, and you will find yourself shut out of society and left to the streets, ignored and forgotten. This play is aimed towards young adults, exploring topics of censorship, duty to society, and freedom to love. For an adult like me, it came across as simplistic, but, then again, this play wasn’t aimed towards me. It’s an excellent play for younger kids to ponder the ramifications of these topics. The cast, mainly younger actors, is excellent, with special mention to the two leads, Ayra Rajput as the Girl (Angela) and Sacha Brochert as Orhan, the student who follows his heart towards rebellion. The staging is wonderful, with a mixture of movement and dance, subtext written on flowing cloth, and a lone masked figure at the bottom right chronicling the story on an old typewriter. Simply beautiful. This is a cautionary tale I would suggest your younger students see, as it’s relevant to our world today.

@ THIRD Street: June 12 and 14

Broken Planet Show  by Callum Grant    

Irresistible ★★★★★1/2

Wow! This show was an unexpected surprise. I don’t want to say too much, as it’s something that must be experienced, but I’ll share a few nuggets. This show is a mixture of song, puppets, pillows, apemen, a baby, and a broken earth. Can we, as a collective audience, save our planet? Perhaps. And that is the mission of our evening with the one and only God. You may have heard of him. He’s been gone a long time. Over the course of the evening, God (Callum Grant), a large baby with an even larger head (Vinnie Masteghin), and the Ancient One (Alain Rochefort), with a large dose of audience participation, attempt to save our broken world through dance, nerf guns, pillows, cats, and dogs. Add to that performances by “Circus Maurice” (Cyril Rabbath) and Lt. Love Doctor (Chloe Matonis, whose show opens tomorrow), and you have one heck of a great show. This is a party, a battle royale, a concert, and a confab all in one, to bring our society together. A definite highlight of the festival and a must-see.

@ Bizarre Bar: June 10 and 13, @Swan Dive: June 14