The Human Cat Experience

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.

Current Performances

The Human Cat Experience returns to the 2026 Edmonton International Fringe Festival.

Show Times

Friday August 14 @ 8:45pm
Sunday August 16 @ 1:00pm
Monday August 17 @ 6:00pm
Tuesday August 18 @ 9:00pm
Friday August 21 @ 3:30pm
Saturday August 22 @ 5:00pm
Sunday August 23 @ 5:45pm

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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