The Human Cat Experience @ The Edmonton International Fringe Festival 2026
From award-winning weirdos Hilary Fillier (ParaNorma PI) and ira cooper (Everything Is Super Wow) comes The Human Cat Experience, a brand-new absurdist comedic tail that’s truly the cat’s meow.
Meet Tom & Pickles: two best fur-iends, high on catnip and suddenly catapulted into an emergency road trip to Catsco for kitty litter. What starts as a simple errand spirals into a fur-midable fever dream of serial-killer sex dolls, rotisserie-chicken burlesque, and a claw-fully unhinged Log Driver’s Waltz starring a dancing poop.
Think Cheech and Chong, but fluffier – purr-formed with handmade puppets, original songs, and an un-fur-gettable avalanche of cat puns.
PAST CRITICAL REVIEW for The Human Cat Experience
“The cat-nippiest, cat-trippiest show you will see at the Fringe. Delightful puppets. And a chicken winning dance you won’t soon forget.” – What The Fringe
“Holy hairballs! The Human Cat Experience is a Fringey meowsterpiece.” – The Post Horn
“Aptly described as “Cheech and Chong, but with Cats,” The Human Cat Experience is non-stop laughter, you’d be suspect of coughing up a hairball.” – YEG Fringe Recs
“Genuinely almost falling out of my seat laughing so hard, the acting was hilarious the script was insane but in the best way and so so so insanely funny.” – Edmonton Fringe Patron Review
From Other Shows...
★★★★– “It’s a solid showcase for Cooper’s talent for physical theatre . . . Wacky, trippy and surreal” Janice Sawka, Winnipeg Free Press (Everything is Super Wow)
★★★★– “Fillier’s talent for physical comedy shines; her willingness to ‘go there’ is truly unmatched. Truly a riot of a performer.” Winnipeg Free Press (Paranorma PI)
TEAM MEMBERS
Spec Theatre & Catsco
Hilary Fillier: Writer, Performer, Producer
ira cooper: Writer, Performer, Producer
Ruby Arnold: Designer
August 14 @ 8:45pm
August 16 @ 1:00pm
August 17 @ 6:00pm
August 18 @ 9:00pm
August 21 @ 3:30pm
August 22 @ 5:00pm
August 23 @ 5:45pm
Meet Tom & Pickles: two best fur-iends, high on catnip and suddenly catapulted into an emergency road trip to Catsco for kitty litter. What starts as a simple errand spirals into a fur-midable fever dream of serial-killer sex dolls, rotisserie-chicken burlesque, and a claw-fully unhinged Log Driver’s Waltz starring a dancing poop.
Think Cheech and Chong, but fluffier – purr-formed with handmade puppets, original songs, and an un-fur-gettable avalanche of cat puns.
PAST CRITICAL REVIEW for The Human Cat Experience
“The cat-nippiest, cat-trippiest show you will see at the Fringe. Delightful puppets. And a chicken winning dance you won’t soon forget.” – What The Fringe
“Holy hairballs! The Human Cat Experience is a Fringey meowsterpiece.” – The Post Horn
“Aptly described as “Cheech and Chong, but with Cats,” The Human Cat Experience is non-stop laughter, you’d be suspect of coughing up a hairball.” – YEG Fringe Recs
“Genuinely almost falling out of my seat laughing so hard, the acting was hilarious the script was insane but in the best way and so so so insanely funny.” – Edmonton Fringe Patron Review
From Other Shows...
★★★★– “It’s a solid showcase for Cooper’s talent for physical theatre . . . Wacky, trippy and surreal” Janice Sawka, Winnipeg Free Press (Everything is Super Wow)
★★★★– “Fillier’s talent for physical comedy shines; her willingness to ‘go there’ is truly unmatched. Truly a riot of a performer.” Winnipeg Free Press (Paranorma PI)
TEAM MEMBERS
Spec Theatre & Catsco
Hilary Fillier: Writer, Performer, Producer
ira cooper: Writer, Performer, Producer
Ruby Arnold: Designer
August 14 @ 8:45pm
August 16 @ 1:00pm
August 17 @ 6:00pm
August 18 @ 9:00pm
August 21 @ 3:30pm
August 22 @ 5:00pm
August 23 @ 5:45pm
Where is it happening?
Holy Trinity Edmonton, 10037 - 84 Avenue,Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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