Capital Pride and Ottawa Fringe have joined forces to serve up Queered: A Mini-Fest, featuring the fiercest local queer shows from the 2025 Fringe Festival. Our queer jury picked their top 3 standout shows and now those winners are making a comeback for one unforgettable night.

Get ready to celebrate queer stories, bold voices, and unapologetic creativity because this is Pride theatre you won’t want to miss!

Where: Arts Court Theatre – 2 Daly Avenue

When: Saturday, August 16, 2025

Best Part: FREE to attend, just reserve your ticket in advance!

• ∉ {0,1} Trop paresseuse pour faire un coming out donc j'ai créé une pièce de théâtre

5:00 PM

In this autobiographical play, Sophie Twardus explores the question of identity with vulnerability and a generous amount of mathematics.

• Small Fish

7:00 PM

Lasers! Horses! Dolly Parton? A comedy revue tackling the Real Stuff™ – feminism, and existentialism, and third cousins. Small Fish is like if your Saturday morning cartoons were acted out by two people at a house party who are WAY too comfortable with each other.

 • ECPD: Rhetoric, Blood and Crime

9:00 PM

To be just or to justify, That is the question, Your Honour. A dark, gritty, serious crime drama. To stride the line of Law and Order, Or warp it’s Bones, And scale the walls of a moral Castle. True Detectives, with the firm of R and G, Will present the CSI evidence. Was this tale told by a Criminal Mind? We will not Fargo the truth, You, The Jury, are the key. A man’s soul hangs on The Wire.

For tickets visit capitalpride.ca.