{"id":812860,"date":"2026-07-19T21:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812860\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:09:10","slug":"mothers-secret-delivers-family-drama-and-surprises-at-winnipeg-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812860\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mother&#8217;s Secret&#8217; delivers family drama and surprises at Winnipeg Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actors from Broken Records Production took the stage at Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, CCFM, for the play, Mother&#8217;s Secret, on Sunday afternoon in the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The play-comedy was about two adult daughters trying to admit their eccentric mother into an assisted living facility.<\/p>\n<p>In their ploy to do so, they discover unexpected and surprising things about their mother.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORIES:<\/p>\n<p>Character profiles<\/p>\n<p>Actresses, Josie Long, and Callum Peppard, do a good job at embodying the characters of sisters, Krystyna and Virginia, respectively.\u00a0 The bickering sisters make the show lighthearted, and their scenes are reminiscent of common sibling antics.<\/p>\n<p>Judy Arnason does a great job as Pearl, the mysterious and headstrong but loving mother to her two daughters, Krystyna and Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Kolisynk plays the witty and funny Vera, best friend to Pearl. Her sarcastic persona brings humour to the show.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Nash plays Franco de Vincello III, a vengeful but absentminded antagonist trying to get retribution for his grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>Mother&#8217;s Secret\u00a0is a funny and entertaining play, that&#8217;s enjoyable and suitable for most audiences. Want to find out what the secret is? Tickets to the remaining show times can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegfringe.com\/performer-detail.aspx?kw=Broken+Record+Productions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actors from Broken Records Production took the stage at Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, CCFM, for the play, Mother&#8217;s Secret,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-812860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}