Posts Tagged ‘travel’

Someday I’ll fly away…

Final Greetings, fellow ex-Fringers!
Yes, here we go with my 40th…and last…column. The Fringe is well and truly over. Just the Artist cheques to collect, the accounts to do, and the final reckoning as to whether we’ve made a profit, just broken even…or paid for the honour of coming here!
Whatever the case, it has all been [...]

The Party’s Over…

Greetings, Ex-Fringers!
Well, here we are on the morning after the night before. The last performances have performed, the sets have been cleared, the traders have moved out, and there is only the Tumbleweed of redundant show-posters blowing in the wind to remind us of the fun we’ve all just had. Sad…in a way, but so [...]

Times they are a-changing…

Greetings Fringers!
I’ve been coming to Edmonton for many years now. I have family here, and it’s been wonderful to get to know them all, having grown up so far away. So I’ve been probably visiting Edmonton on an occasional basis since the mid-1980s.
And then, of course, there was the Fringe…
As an actor, it was only [...]

Is this a dagger which I see before me?

Greetings, Fringe-denizens.
There’s always a good side and a bad side to everything, isn’t there? As an International artist, one of the good sides is that coming over to Canada from England is a huge adventure. A sort of working holiday. At Dreamscape, our whole approach to the Edmonton Fringe is: if we manage to cover [...]

Number crunching…

Greetings Fringe-ers!
Here at the Edmonton Festival, it’s not all FUN, FUN, FUN. Mostly it is, to be sure, but any of you out here who are running your own companies (and I suspect that’s the majority of you), will know that there’s an awful lot of hard grind to be done. The performance is just [...]