Review: Raw performance enraptures audience
A Dunedin family explored love, loss and healing in a unique performance combining Māori culture and theatre.
Dunedin Fringe Festival
Challenging status quo with comedy
Challenging status quo with comedy
A transgender and nonbinary comedian is challenging the status quo and honouring a friend’s death — all while trying to make people laugh.
Review: Ticking boxes with affable sincerity
Review: Ticking boxes with affable sincerity
Engineer by day, comedian by night, Dunedin’s own Gerard Dougherty is anything but mechanical on stage.
Dunedin Fringe Festival, March 2024
Dunedin Fringe Festival, March 2024
Some programme highlights
‘Dystopian’ telephone play wins top award
‘Dystopian’ telephone play wins top award
The winner of this year’s Best in Fringe managed to transform talking to an answering machine into a thought-provoking examination of powerlessness.
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Creativity of rainbow community celebrated
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Creativity of rainbow community celebrated
They have it in the bag — Dunedin Pride’s Fringe Festival Art Day wrapped up yesterday a collaborative venture between the two organisations with a display of creativity.
Artists serve creative platter
Artists serve creative platter
A juicy fruit, a tiny Toblerone and an up-sized kiwifruit is quite the unusual platter, but for the artists of Dunedin’s Fringe Festival this is but another delight for the senses.
Beautiful voices light up comedy
Beautiful voices light up comedy
An Incomplete Education, staged by Opera Otago and directed by officiant Kim Morgan, is knowledge which doesn’t come from books.
Kafka looms in hopeless phone call
Kafka looms in hopeless phone call
The spirit of Kafka lives on in The Sensemaker.
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Project looks at how environment affects us
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Project looks at how environment affects us
A Fringe Festival performative research project ended with two adults sitting in a bush near a busy Dunedin intersection and inspired a different way to view our city streets.
Comedian riffs on issues, hates Dunedin
Comedian riffs on issues, hates Dunedin
Guy Williams’ "Comedy Plus Time Equals Tragedy" is a delightful dive into the twisted mind of the New Zealand Today host.
Macabre, snappy play true to time
Macabre, snappy play true to time
Roald Dahl's Lamb to the SlaughterPlayhouse TheatreThursday, March 16REVIEWED BY BARBARA FRAME
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Chook’s look the spur
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Chook’s look the spur
Dunedin writer Angela Pope is loving the experience of putting on her first play at the Dunedin Fringe Festival.
Fringe: The Bard in the garden
The Bard in the garden
The course of Covid-19 never did run smooth, but this troupe of travelling thespians have a way to keep performing despite the cancellations.
Fringe Festival up and running
Fringe Festival up and running
The Dunedin Fringe Festival is under way, offering 10 days of theatre, dance, music, comedy, cabaret and visual arts.
Action time here for Fringe Festival
Action time here for Fringe Festival
Dunedin artists are in the final phases of assembling their shows as the Dunedin Fringe Festival starts today.
‘Melting pot’ set to provide arts magic
‘Melting pot’ set to provide arts magic
A night of experimental art and saucy debauchery is on the horizon as Dunedin Fringe Festival cabaret performers prepare for their big night on stage.
Examinination of cultural differences
Examinination of cultural differences
International comedy act Ryan McGhee will share his take on the cultural differences (and similarities) between Scotland and Aotearoa in his show The Scottish Kiwi during the Dunedin Fringe Festival.
Celtic tunes, stories shared
Celtic tunes, stories shared
Grounded in Celtic musical traditions, Rennie Pearson takes audiences on a journey through history during this month’s Dunedin Fringe Festival.
Voyage leads to the stage
Voyage leads to the stage
Felolini Maria Tafuna’i admits starring in a play of her own writing is a different story, she tells Rebecca Fox.