Fringe Review: Juicy Woo-Woo!
- Septimus & Carmunist
- Aug 21, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 31, 2025
Dates: Aug 21 – Aug 26, 2025
Location: VCM Wood Hall (Fringe Venue 2)
Artist / Company: John Sobol (SOBOLTALK), Burritt Rapids, ON
Duration: 60 mins
Rating: All Ages
Genre: Music, Spoken Word, Cabaret
Juicy Woo-Woo! delivers classic Fringe quirk. John Sobol blends a lecture about UFOs with jazz and philosophical speculation. He shares some interesting evidence and recordings about high-profile ET encounters—whistleblower testimony, astronaut accounts, and government records. He discusses who the aliens visiting Earth might be and what they are here for, all while resisting unsubstantiated speculation. He moves into physics, consciousness, reality. He plays some Sun Ra on sax, and he ends with a fantastic solo from Pink Floyd's Great Gig in the Sky.
Highlights
Sobol knows his terrain. He blends evidence and wonder. It felt both rigorous and expansive. Even if you think you know a lot about recent developments in government releases on UFOs, you are still likely to be surprised.
He’s endearing!
His sax playing shines. That final solo shook the room.
Workshop Notes
Could’ve used more laughs. The content is serious even if Sobol is lighthearted about it. A few more jokes would help carry the energy further.
Sun Ra provides a bridge between jazz and extraterrestrial visitation, but Sobol could reach even deeper here to bring music into the themes of cosmic love, unity, and consciousness.
Rating
★ ★ ★ ★ (four stars)
The Victoria Fringe Festival, presented by Intrepid Theatre since 1986, has become a cornerstone of the city’s arts scene, known for its unjuried, anything-goes approach to performance. For Carmunist and Septimus, Fringe is the highlight of the year. We’ve been involved as volunteers for more than a decade, and more recently, we’ve opened our home to performers as billets. Reviewing Fringe shows is something we’ve talked about for some time, and now we’re putting our experience as fiction editors and theatre stans to work, offering our thoughts and workshop notes for as many performances as we can attend.
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