The Human Cat Experience

Fringe 2026

The Human Cat Experience

From award-winning weirdos Hilary Fillier (ParaNorma PI) and ira cooper (Everything Is Super Wow) comes The Human Cat Experience, a brand-new absurdist comedic tail that’s truly the cat’s meow.

Meet Tom & Pickles: two best fur-iends, high on catnip and suddenly catapulted into an emergency road trip to Catsco for kitty litter. What starts as a simple errand spirals into a fur-midable fever dream of serial-killer sex dolls, rotisserie-chicken burlesque, and a claw-fully unhinged Log Driver’s Waltz starring a dancing poop.

Think Cheech and Chong, but fluffier – purr-formed with handmade puppets, original songs, and an un-fur-gettable avalanche of cat puns.

PAST CRITICAL REVIEW for The Human Cat Experience

“The cat-nippiest, cat-trippiest show you will see at the Fringe. Delightful puppets. And a chicken winning dance you won’t soon forget.” – What The Fringe

“Holy hairballs! The Human Cat Experience is a Fringey meowsterpiece.” – The Post Horn

“Aptly described as “Cheech and Chong, but with Cats,” The Human Cat Experience is non-stop laughter, you’d be suspect of coughing up a hairball.” – YEG Fringe Recs

“Genuinely almost falling out of my seat laughing so hard, the acting was hilarious the script was insane but in the best way and so so so insanely funny.” – Edmonton Fringe Patron Review

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★★★★– “It’s a solid showcase for Cooper’s talent for physical theatre . . . Wacky, trippy and surreal” Janice Sawka, Winnipeg Free Press (Everything is Super Wow)

★★★★– “Fillier’s talent for physical comedy shines; her willingness to ‘go there’ is truly unmatched. Truly a riot of a performer.” Winnipeg Free Press (Paranorma PI)

Plain Language Description

The Human Cat Experience is about two cats who get high on catnip. They realize they forgot to purchase kitty litter and have to make an emergency trip to a large department store named Catsco. Along the road, they run into several obstacles, including a killer sex doll, crashing their car into a river, and going to cat heaven. The show is a silly adventure is about friendship, cat puns and silliness.