WHAT IS A FRINGE FESTIVAL? – An “artist's” perspective.
By Shane Adamczak, Australian.
Take a bunch of artists from all around the world with different backgrounds, different performance styles, different languages and different levels of experience and what do you get? You get the glorious melting pot that is the Fringe Festival. It’s a melting pot and I’m hungry for fondue. Yes, that’s the imagery I’ve chosen and I’m sticking to it, so saddle up dear reader…
It’s been a truly life changing experience coming into the world of the Canadian Fringe Circuit as an outside eye and ever so quickly becoming part of it. I’ve just come hot off the heels of a delightfully successful run in Montreal with my show ZACK ADAMS: A Complete History Of Zack Adams, and have just touched down in Toronto to start the second leg of my four-city tour. There’s something about arriving in a brand new city (Toronto is the only city on my tour which I’ve never been to) and spending the first few days wandering around getting your bearings; finding important landmarks such as the Fringe Office, your venue, somewhere to get printing done, all the sweet places to put said posters and most importantly, where the late-night shenanigans will be taking place. Because no-one likes late-night shenanigans more than Fringe Artists, except maybe vampires.
