Two cats, high on catnip make an emergency road trip to Catsco for kitty litter.
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.
Produced by Spec Theatre & Catsco
Cast
Hilary Fillier as Pickles
ira cooper as Tom
Crew
Writing: ira cooper, Hilary Fillier
Design: Ruby Arnold, ira cooper & Hilary Fillier
Stage Manager: Andrew Wade
Content Advisory
Partial nudity, depictions of catnip use, sudden loud noises
Reviews
“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
Audiences Have Said
“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
Performances
2026
Upintheair Theatre’s rEvolver Festival, Vancouver
2025
Edmonton International Fringe Festival