Wait a beat, or two, and the emerging style known as hip-hop theatre will have a festival circuit of its own. Montrealers Batalion and Saibil and their Foqué dans la Tête Productions can claim they invented the new genre of dramatic-narrative rap.

They've been playing to ever larger crowds since their breakout at the Fringe two years ago with JOB: The Hip Hop Musical, an audience favourite at last year's Wildside. The local rappers are back with the sequel, JOB II: The Demon of the Eternal Recurrence, which enriches MC Cain's and MC Abel's popular mix of fresh rhymes and rhythms with selections from Nietzsche's philosophy.

— Matt Radz