Before The Rocky Horror Picture Show, before Hedwig and the Angry Inch, there was Hosanna, the controversial and still-electrifying play that rocketed Michel Tremblay to world prominence.

In an apartment in downtown Montreal, tart-tongued Hosanna, the cattiest drag queen on the Main, and her biker lover Cuirette have returned from a disastrous Hallowe'en party. As she removes the elaborate costume she made for the occasion, and the mystery of what has so greatly upset Hosanna unfolds, Tremblay reveals the story hidden beneath her makeup -- of a Quebec farmboy who constructed a new identity for himself, and who now, perhaps, must take it apart again. Directed by our new artistic producer, Eliza Gardiner.

Do you remember how much fun being 10 was? That's how much fun this party is going to be!

Featuring blasts from Western Edge's past, including performances by many of the actors and singers you've gotten to know over the years, and bits from our biggest hits (wait till you see our Tuesdays with Morrie send-up!), this will be a birthday bash to remember.

We'll also have a ceremonial "passing of the torch" from founding artistic producer Frank Moher to our new A.P., Eliza Gardiner. (We hope we don't set off the fire alarms!) And since we'll be at Fibber Magee's in the old train station -- we'll have the upstairs all to ourselves -- there'll be lots of good food and beverage available. And oh yes -- free birthday cake!

32-year old Denise Savage has decided that tonight's the night she changes her life -- especially the still-a-virgin part. Meanwhile, her former high school classmate, Linda, has just been told by her boyfriend that he wants to start dating "ugly girls," by which he means ones who read books.

Guess what? Denise reads books.

In this fiercely funny play filled with moments of unexpected magic, the two are set for an epic encounter that may indeed change their lives -- not to mention those of the other lost souls inhabiting Shanley's atmospheric and slightly mysterious bar. By turns zany, tragic, and poetic, Savage in Limbo is "conceived with sharp insight into the lives of losers, conveyed with a frisky and often hilarious wit." - NY Daily News.