Snake in Fridge

Brad Fraser is an award-winning and internationally renowned playwright with a reputation for being dark, witty, often shocking, and always controversial. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1959, Fraser has been writing for theatre and winning awards since his teens. Besides being a playwright, Brad Fraser has been a playwright-in-residence, a celebrity spokesperson for The AIDS Network of Edmonton, and has conducted interviews with many interesting people including Kim Campbell and kd lang. Fraser's success as a playwright was predicted early on... While Maclean's magazine told us Fraser was one of "100 Canadians to watch" Variety said he'd be "a major new force in North American play writing". His plays have been produced worldwide including Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Cincinnati, Washington DC, New York, Edinburgh, London, Sydney, Milan, and Tokyo. Brad Fraser currently lives in Toronto.

"Snake in Fridge" examines the everyday lives of not so everyday characters A group of eight misfits living in a misfit house go about their daily business in true Fraser style Corbett works in porno and owns a pet snake Caddie is a stripper Travis is a busboy who aspires to be a waiter and one of the people living in their house is a murderer After Corbett s "dead" snake escapes bizarre things begin to happen in the house The darkness in this play may not be the result of the lives led by the characters but the house they live in