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More Fringe Festivals than anyone else on earth: 112. Has met more Fringers than anyone else over the past ten years. Punters, producers, performers, press, volunteers, etc. Therefore knows more about the unique Canadian Fringe Tour than anyone else. And has an awful lot to say about it. “Big laughs, observational zingers, dazzling turns of phrase” Montreal Gazette, June 2016 Who eats their own face? With fried rice and soy sauce? Travel First. Ask Questions later. Fringe Legend Jem Rolls presents a unique celebration of getting lost on an intercontinental scale. With poetry. Bad jokes. Good jokes. Storytelling. Why are you going there? Find out when you get there. What will you do there? Find out when you get there. From the drably normal to the outlandish and unheard-of. From dumps to paradise and back again. Who almost decapitates himself with his own machete? Jem. Who gets inadvertently chummy with Piranhas? Komodo Dragons? Sharks? Jem. Who goes to India and gets constipation? No-one. Except... The heroic survivor of the epic of his own stupidity? ...Jem The Malay who talks to fireflies? Not Jem. The bloodcrazed machete man at the Mexican bus station? Also not Jem. The stinkiest of all stenches? Not Jem. Even. Who blunders out of the tourist bubble?... to be amazed its not full of dodgy swirly-eyed foreign types?... cackling evilly as they sell your own freshly harvested organs back to you?... and put the price up by the second?... Not Jem. Yet he is... lost in Fez, Jogya, Hanoi, Varanasi, Split, Bucharest, and so many more anywheres it's... everywhere He is ... over the further horizon... to nowheres so nowhere they have no middle. He is... shedding skins, baggage... washing himself of past and history. He is ... stressured to be a poet by the constant need for a new vocabulary of the ballsup. Winner first ever Montreal Fringe Lifetime Spirit Of The Fringe Award, 2015. More Fringe Festivals than anyone in the History of The Universe. [Parallel Universes don’t count.] Wildly original show. Again. Jem Rolls does not know how to play safe.