The Halifax Fringe Festival, formerly known as the Atlantic Fringe Festival, is held annually in late August and early September in Halifax,

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

. Since 1991, the festival has been a showcase for non-mainstream theatre. A wide variety of original plays, shows, and presentations are performed.

History

Atlantic Fringe Festival Society was incorporated in 1990 and the first Atlantic Fringe Festival took place in 1991. Ken Pinto ran the festival from its inception for twenty years. After an open letter of complaint by performer Mikaela Dyke, Pinto stepped down amidst controversy about the future of the festival after the 20th edition of the festival in 2010. A new board of directors assumed responsibility for the 21st edition of the festival in 2011.

Thom Fitzgerald Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald (born July 8, 1968) is an American-Canadian film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright and producer. Life Fitzgerald was born and raised in New Rochelle, New York. His parents divorced when he was five years ol ...

assumed the position of Festival Director that year, succeeded by playwright Lee-Anne Poole in 2015. In 2011 the #1 Atlantic Fringe Hit was "Rainer Hirsch's

Victor Borge Børge Rosenbaum (3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000), known professionally as Victor Borge ( ), was a Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist who achieved great popularity in radio and television in the North America and Europe. His ...

". In 2012 the #1 Atlantic Fringe Hit was "Confessions of a Mormon Boy" by

Steven Fales Steven Heard Fales (born March 17, 1970) is a classically trained playwright and actor who has gained broad recognition in both the theatre world gay community and the LDS community for his award-winning one-man play, ''Confessions of a Mormon Bo ...

Performances take place at different venues in

downtown Halifax Downtown Halifax is the primary central business district of the Halifax, Nova Scotia, Municipality of Halifax. Located on the central-eastern portion of the Halifax Peninsula, on Halifax Harbour. Along with Downtown Dartmouth, and other de facto ...

and change year to year. Atlantic Fringe Festival more than doubled its audience between 2010 and 2012, with 9,393 individual tickets issued for the 22nd edition. The name was changed for Halifax Fringe Festival in 2017 for the 27th edition.

Shows and attractions

The 2008 festival featured over 250 performances of more than 40 different shows, including musicals, dramas, comedies, and dance. The 2012 festival featured over 300 performances of more than 50 different shows, including musicals, dramas, comedies, and dance.

Cost

Tickets for each performance are sold individually. Price per ticket ranges from $2-$15 Canadian (2020).

References

* http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Canadian-Heritage-868384.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20110706172502/http://halifax.cityguide.ca/atlantic-fringe-festival-august-28september-7/08-023474.php

External links

* Theatre festivals in Nova Scotia

Fringe_Festival Fringe theatre is theatre that is produced outside of the main theatre institutions, and that is often small-scale and non-traditional in style or subject matter. The term comes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Kemp, Robert, ''More that is Fre ...

Fringe festivals in Canada Festivals established in 1991 1991 establishments in Nova Scotia {{Theat-festival-stub

History

Shows and attractions

Cost

See also

References

External links