Past FASS

A show-by-show guide to the illustrious history that is FASS. This page is still a work in progress, but your help in finishing it is greatly appreciated. Do you have something that is missing? Email prez@fass.uwaterloo.ca!

Scripts shown here are the last known PDF of the script (often what was printed for the readthrough). It may not include changes, additions, or deletions that happened as part of the rehearsal process.

You can also check out FASS’s public Google Drive folder for scripts, programs, and posters from past shows.

2023 Winter: The Other Side of the Story

  • Theme: redeeming all your favourite villains
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: Waterloo Ward 6 City Councillor Mary Lou Roe
    • Friday: Award-winning Math Faculty lecturer Dan Wolczuk
    • Saturday: Waterloo MP Bardish Chagger

2022 Winter: FASS-O-Vision

  • Virtual show due to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Theme: Television! Seinfass, trashy reality TV, and wacky commercials

2021 Winter: Interdimensional News Live-ish

  • Virtual show due to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Theme: channel-surfing the TV multiverse

2020 Winter: Nothing Beats Rock

  • Theme: A history of civilization
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday – Waterloo Mayor Dave Jaworsky
    • Friday – award-winning Math Faculty Lecturer Dan Wolczuk
    • Saturday – Waterloo Ward 2 City Councillor Royce Bodaly
  • FASS 2020 Program
  • FASS 2020 Script
  • FASS 2020 Poster

2019 Fall: Feridun-Dun-DUN!

  • Theme: Murder mystery/film noir
  • Guest Acts: 
    • Unaccompanied Minors
    • AcaBellas
    • UW Cheer Team
    • UW Improv Club
    • UW Juggling Club
    • Chavembachata
    • UW Warriors Band
  • FASS 2019 Program
  • FASS 2019 Script
  • Imprint Review
  • FASS 2019 Poster:

2019 Winter: Fantasy & Fandoms

  • Theme: Fantasy Worlds
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: Rose Vogt, UW Staff Association President
    • Friday: Hon. Bardish Chagger, MP for Waterloo
    • Saturday: Mary-Ann Vaughn, Economics Professor
  • FASS 2019 Program
  • FASS 2019 Script
  • FASS 2019 Poster

2018 Fall: FASS Variety Show Presents: The Future

  • Theme: The Future
  • Guest Acts: 
    • UWACE
    • Musical Interdudes
    • UW Drag Club
    • UW Improv Club
    • Prismatic
  • FASS 2018 Program
  • FASS 2018 Script
  • FASS 2018 Poster

2018 Winter: Canada 150 151

  • Theme: Canada
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: Jeff Henry, Waterloo City Councillor
    • Friday: Bill Baer, UW Staff Association President
    • Saturday: Hon. Bardish Chagger, MP for Waterloo
  • FASS 2018 Program
  • FASS 2018 Script
  • FASS 2018 Poster

2017: Super FASS Variety Night

  • Theme: Superheroes
  • Guest Acts:
    • UW Juggling Club
    • The Acabellas
    • Warriors Band
    • UW Drag Club


2016: Who’s Afraid of the FASS

  • Theme: Haunted Theatre
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: A
    • Friday: B
    • Friday Late: C
    • Saturday: D
  • FASS 2016 Program
  • FASS 2016 Script
  • FASS 2016 Poster

 2015: FASS Fables: Tale from Mother Geese

  • Theme: Fairy Tales
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: A
    • Friday: B
    • Friday Late: C
    • Saturday: D
  • FASS 2015 Program
  • FASS 2015 Script
  • FASS 2015 Poster

2014: The Last of FASS

  • Theme: Apocalypse
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: Jerry Smith
    • Friday: Larry Smith (Economics Professor)
    • Friday Late: Dan Wolczuk (Mathematics Professor)
    • Saturday: Robert Mann
  • FASS 2014 Program
  • FASS 2014 Script
  • FASS 2014 Poster
  • FASS 2014 in the Daily Bulletin

The Last of FASS

2013: FASS for President

  • Theme: Politics
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: A
    • Friday: B
    • Friday Late: C
    • Saturday: D
  • FASS 2013 Program
  • FASS 2013 Script
  • FASS 2013 Poster

FASS for President

2012: The Neverending Story

FASS 50th Anniversary - The Neverending Story

2011: FASS of the Titans

  • Theme: Myths and Legends
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: Unknown
    • Friday: Unknown
    • Friday Late: Unknown
    • Saturday: Unknown
  • FASS 2011 Poster

FASS of the Titans


 2010: Final FASSity MMX

  • Theme: Video Games
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: Michael L. Davenport (Imprint Editor-in-Chief)
    • Friday: Chris Neal (Feds Vice President, Administration & Finance)
    • Friday Late: Peter Carette (Director of Theatre Operations)
    • Saturday: Bud Walker (Director of University Business Operations (and interim Associate Provost, Student Services))
  • FASS 2010 Program
  • FASS 2010 Script
  • FASS 2010 Poster
  • FASS 2010 in the Daily Bulletin
FASS 2010 Princess Peach

FASS 2010 Princess Peach

FASS 2009 Poster

FASS 2009 Poster

2009: Live FASS, Die Tomorrow

  • Theme: Spies
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: Joe West (Applied Mathematics Professor)
    • Friday: Heather Fitzgerald (Student Life Office)
    • Friday Late: The Feds Executive (represented by Andrew Falcao, VP Internal)
    • Saturday: Marios Ioannidis (Director of Nanotechnology)
  • FASS 2009 Program
  • FASS 2009 Script
  • FASS 2009 Poster

2008: Global Warming: Kiss Your FASS Goodbye

2007: The Seven Silly Sins

2006: A Midwinter Night’s FASS

  • Theme: Shakespeare
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: Michael Symth (Associate Dean, Renison)
    • Friday: John Andersen (Federation of Students)
    • Friday Late: Heather Fitzgerald (Student Life Office)
    • Saturday: Vera Golini (Italian, St. Jeromes)
  • FASS 2006 Program
  • FASS 2006 Script

 

2005: The FASStastics

  • Theme: Superheroes
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: Neil Randall (English, Rhetoric and Professional Writing)
    • Friday: Jack Rehder (Computer Science)
    • Friday Late: Vera Golini (Italian, St. Jeromes)
    • Saturday: Michael Symth (Associate Dean, Renison)
  • Program
  • FASS 2005 Script
  • Poster

2004: The Brothers FASS: Princes & Dragons & Wolves, Oh My!

  • Theme: Fairy Tales
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: Unknown
    • Friday: Unknown
    • Friday Late: Unknown
    • Saturday: Unknown
  • Program
  • FASS 2004 Script
  • Poster

2003: The New FASS Show

2002: Dial F for FASS

  • Theme: Murder Mystery / Film Noir
  • Cameos:
    • Thursday: Unknown
    • Friday: Unknown
    • Friday Late: Unknown
    • Saturday: Unknown
  • Program
  • FASS 2002 Script
  • FASS 2002 Poster

2001: A FASS Oddity


 

2000: FASS2K: The ProFASSY: The Last FASS Ever

1999: The FASS Files: The Truth is WAY Out There

1998: FASSablanca

1997: 1001 Arthurian Knights

1996: FASStic Surgery


 

1995: Village Don of the Dead

1994: Jest Add Laughter

1993: The REEL Thing

1992: Ain’t Mythbehavin’

1991: Please Do Not Adjust Your Set


 1990: FASSical Studies

1989: Another Damned FASS Show

1988: Just an Old FASSioned Love Song

1987: A Touch of FASS: The Silver Sequel

1986: The Scream Play


 1985: FASSer Than A Speeding Bullet

1984: The FASSist Manifesto or I Liked It So Much I Bought the Government

1983: FASS or Fiction

1982: Alice in Wonderloo or Through the Looking FASS

1981: FASSified Information


 

1980: Days of Future FASS

1979: Ships that FASS in the Night

1978: The St. Valentine’s Day FASSacre

1977: Star Travesty

1976: The Canadian Northwest


 

1975: The Peasants Are Revolting!

1974: A Trip Through Time or How to Miss the Same Train Twice

1973: The Wild West

1972: FASS Nite 1972: Everything You Always Wanted To Know But…

1971: FASS Nite 1971: Circus


 

1970: FASS Nite 1970: Sailing Down Laurel Creek

1969: FASS Nite 1969: Tell It Like It Is

1968: FASS Nite 1968

1967: FASS Nite 1967

1966: FASS Nite 1966


 

1965: FASS Nite 1965

1964: FASS Nite 1964

1963: FASS Nite 1963

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