Dunedin Fringe Festival 2012

It's last chance to dance on the fringe of society this weekend.

There was only one thing on Christchurch artist Audrey Baldwin's mind after her Dunedin Fringe Festival performance "Canker" at the Blue Oyster Project Art Space last night.

Fringe Festival artists Merel Kamp (left) and Laura Stam perform as "Perky and Fiddle" at the University of Otago yesterday.

English punk poet John Cooper Clarke was not having a bar of Dunedin poet laureate Robbie Burns yesterday.

Artistic taste is a funny thing.

What is the most horrible music instrument ever invented?

Some people were not too impressed when the ODT ran a photo of zombies on the front page after the Fringe programme launch last month.

Fire and dance, poetry, music and magic combine among the trees at Chingford Park next week - weather gods permitting. Charmian Smith talks to the Firebugs, Jonathan Cweorth and Hilary Norris, about a journey to the underworld and back, and sex, death and magic in the Renaissance.

Ficklness and frustration become objects of play today.

There was something of the satirical present when the Dunedin Fringe Festival announced its 2012 funding.

Celebrated English punk poet John Cooper Clarke will spearhead next month's Dunedin Fringe Festival.