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Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival Stages a Record-Breaking Revolution

From August 13 – 23, 2009, more than 550,000 local, national, and international visitors came together in Edmonton and brought about a revolution like no other at the 28th annual Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival. Themed Stage a Revolution, this year’s festival will definitely hold a prominent page in Fringe Festival history books.

The Reviews reviewed…

Greetings fellow Fringers!
Yes, I’m back on the subject of Reviews again. I did warn you, didn’t I?! Thanks to those of you who sent feedback or otherwise made their feelings known following my last visits to this subject. At that time, I deliberately wrote BEFORE the reviews for our shows had come out. There was [...]

Catching the shows

Good morning Fringers!
Don’t you just love the word “Penultimate”? I mean, it’s such a useful word, isn’t it? The only other way you could express the same meaning is: “The one before the last”, or “second to last”, or something like that. “Penultimate” makes it sound…I don’t know…more cool!
Anyway, here we are on the Penultimate [...]

Rabbit Rabbit

Went to see Rabbit Rabbit yesterday. They had a full house, not quite sold out but close. This is a disturbing show, but even a little more disturbing is that I don’t know if the audience left understanding how disturbing it is. Could the actors and directors done too good a job with their subtleties? [...]

Pinter’s Briefs

I have been pretty hopeless at seeing many shows here in Edmonton. I have been pretty “showed-out”, so to speak, from the past 3 fringes, however, I did make my way over to the BYOV where “Pinter’s Briefs” is playing: my 4th show.  It is in the most gorgeous theatre. Really intimate and clean and [...]