Murder She Improvised
2025 Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival
Aug. 18, 2025, 6:34 p.m.

Murder She Improvised is an absolutely hilarious show where the actors are trying to figure out who the murder is as much as the audience, to the point that they might just confess because they don’t know - they could be the murderer.

The line to get in was particularly confusing for this show, Rapid Fire always has a bit of a confusing line for shows that are at capacity but this was on another level, not sure why. I would recommend getting there early so that you can be near the front of the line and avoid the confusion (if you are okay standing for a while). Another reason to be early is that during the fringe they add a couple extra rows of seats and it messes with some of the sightlines. I was in the third row and had a hard time seeing things, so I would recommend being in the front row if you can’t or don’t want to do stairs or being higher up.

When you enter there are slips of paper you can fill out with suggestions (the sillier the better) to be used later in the show, otherwise there is no participation needed. I did not fill out a slip because writing by hand is difficult for me but I’m sure that if you really wanted to you could ask someone to write a suggestion down for you, the people there are nice.

The actor playing Antonio Dazzles was wearing a jacket that combined with the lights was rather blinding and distracting (the narrator actually made a comment on regretting the choice early on), so I wore sunglasses. I also wore loop quiet earplugs and used an infinity cube.

This show is a hoot from beginning to end, as everyone working on it is incredible from actors to musicians to crew! The murder weapon this time was the suggestion of liposuction, and somehow by the end I believed them, they were just that good. So if you want to watch people argue that they're not the murderer because the murderweapon of choice isn't how they'd kill the person. Or explain how their alibi of filming a chip commercial during a picnic during the couple seconds the lights were out and the murder happened works all you have to do is get a ticket and make a suggestion.