Fifth Date
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This performance of Fifth Date was recorded on October 24th, 2025 as a part of the inaugural AudiArts Festival, created and produced by Linda Olson.
About the Show:
Ted and Julia, a middle-aged couple, meet for their fifth date. Here, secrets are revealed that will challenge them (and us) to consider questions of redemption, free will versus determinism, sexuality, the Canadian justice system, and more. By the date’s end, everything has changed, leaving the audience to consider: what comes next for this couple with their dark secrets? Is a sixth date even possible?
While it is easy to consider people either "good" or "evil," this disregards the complexity of the human condition; and when we reduce people to the single worst action of their life, we do so at our own peril.
Fifth Date is an original one-act play that premiered at the 2024 Winnipeg Fringe Festival at The Gargoyle Theatre.
Warning: Coarse language and discussions of sexual abuse of a minor.
Performers of the live recording:
Julia - Karen Robb
Ted - Vince Rimmer
Stage Directions - Andrew Davidson
Stage Management - Heather Smith
Fifth Date was recorded, edited and produced by Rebecca Driedger, and performed live on the stage of The Gargoyle Theatre in front of a live audience.