The Divorced Dad's Guide to Slaying Vampires
2025 Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival
20 août 2025 16:46
😂
Laughed So Hard I Cried

The ultra-charismatic Randy Brososky is the titular head undead with designs on taking over the world... starting with St. Albert. To defeat the uprising of the damned, punk, LARPing, alcoholic depression, and parenting all come together. Will it all be enough?

Lots of laughs, plenty of Easter eggs for St. Albert kids of a certain era (The Blind Pig!), even some pretty remarkable stunt work! If you like Buffy, you're in the target demo and you'll have a great time.

Cruelly clawing back one star only because the three cast members that make up the band — Brad, Kevin, and... um... Bass Player😉 — are all a little too visually similar. It makes sense; former punk rocker divorced dads have a "look," to be sure. But this made the relationships between the dads and the kids a little difficult to parse out amidst all the punk rock, occult rituals, and staking. Several of those relationships revolve around a character that is mentioned but never appears. That moment you're thinking, "Wait, who's Alison again?" can take you out of the action for a sec. I figure her physical absence from the titular dad's life is kinda the point, but having her show up in a scene with the other kids might have helped establish her significance.

Nitpicks aside, this show is one of the most fun hours you'll have at the Fringe this year!