Fringe fails to win mainstream support
The Dunedin Fringe Festival has packed up its Harlequin box of tricks for another year, after 11 days of eclectic experimental art, theatre, music and performance.
Fringe Festival 2011
Show draws from real-life OCD
Show draws from real-life OCD
Kim Georgine (Christchurch)
Comics recall life and death experiences
Comics recall life and death experiences
Lunch was a laugh yesterday. I caught up with comedians Stella Graham, Matiaha Paku, Irene Pink and Justine Smith to find out about the business of being funny and life on the fringe.
Bizarre sounds, sights triumph
Bizarre sounds, sights triumph
Experimental music and film festival "Lines of Flight" sparked into life at Chick's Hotel last night.
Curtain up on exploration
Curtain up on exploration
New Zealand's premier experimental music and film festival, "Lines of Flight", swoops in to land on the Fringe centre stage today.
Poetic challenge
Poetic challenge
Grace Taylor (Auckland)
Right rural roasting afoot
Right rural roasting afoot
Q What's your act all about? A The play is about the old money families of rural New Zealand. They can be the closest of families with a deep rich history of love and support but, more often...
Volunteers key to pocketfuls of nothing
Volunteers key to pocketfuls of nothing
The 2011 Dunedin Fringe Festival is nothing if not different.
Rude, but in a funny way
Rude, but in a funny way
Irene Pink
Irene Pink (Auckland)
I'm Sorry I Said That
Q What is your act all about?
Homosexual identity for Kiwis given centre stage
Homosexual identity for Kiwis given centre stage
The Kiwi bloke caricature will never be the same again.
Standing up to her karma
Standing up to her karma
Stella Graham (Coventry, England) Karma Comedian
Depression banished
Depression banished
The first weekend of the Dunedin Fringe Festival has been more fun than you could shake a court jester's baton at.
Beauty, brilliance and humour
Beauty, brilliance and humour
Q What's your act all about? A The show is a series of works by esteemed Auckland choreographers. All the pieces are duets and so it is inspired by the idea of the `other' and the search for...
Humour with an edge
Humour with an edge
Stand-up comedy must be the toughest gig in the world.
May we draw you, with tape, into our mural?
May we draw you, with tape, into our mural?
Q What's your act all about?
In Eastern country
In Eastern country
Hard-working, hard-playing Lyttelton outfit The Eastern brings its gritty country swagger to the Dunedin Fringe Festival tonight. Shane Gilchrist discusses celebration and calamity with frontman Adam McGrath.
Defying genre
Defying genre
Peter Stapleton, organiser of Lines of Flight, the Dunedin Fringe Festival's celebration of experimental music, dances in the space between music and noise, writes Shane Gilchrist.
Avant garde fringe begins
Avant garde fringe begins
You could just tell that Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull is far more suited to cutting through red tape.
Time to open the festival toy box
Time to open the festival toy box
The fringe festival toy box of the colourful, burlesque and bizarre will be unlocked and opened in Dunedin today.
Long-distance relationships and modern communications
Long-distance relationships and modern communications
It's an old story - young people on their OE fall in love, return home and continue their relationship across the world. Charmian Smith talks to Julieanne Eason, whose play tells a contemporary love story.