How can I perform at North Devon’s Fringe Theatre Festival?
Applications for fringe08 theatrefest have now closed and the draw has been made.
This is how Fringe08 will work:
For a fee of £35 the Fringe provides a venue, a venue technician, a generous presence in the brochure and on the website, box-office and front-of-house staff. You supply the production and supplementary publicity.
The Fringe sets the ticket prices and schedules your 3 performances.
You keep 100% of the box office.
Ticket prices are kept low - £4/£2 concessions.
Venues will range between 60 and 150 seats.
No one is going to make a mint but - as importantly - no-one is going to lose their shirt. This is truly an opportunity to present challenging work without shelling out a fortune.
fringe08 theatrefest will have places for 16 groups. No distinction is made as to the status of the groups - amateur, professional or student. 10 slots will be reserved in the first instance for North Devon companies, leaving 6 slots for National and International companies. Assuming more than 16 entries, participation will be decided by public ballot; the Festival organisers make no value judgements in the programming of the Festival.
The cast can be any size and the show in any theatre performance style – drama, comedy, cabaret, revue, dance, opera, musical, stand-up, improv etc – but all companies will have to operate within the same physical conditions and time constraints:
- a maximum acting area approximately 5m x 5m
- a maximum performance time of 75 minutes (minimum performance time 15 minutes)
- a maximum set-up time of 15 minutes only
- a maximum get-out time also of 15 minutes
- there will be a basic sound-system and a fixed lighting-rig with no more than 3 “specials”. There will be one x 1 hour tech rehearsal with the venue technician so it is important to keep things simple.
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"What excited me about the Fringe Theatre Festival?
Hmmm. The sense of 'the underground'. The sense of a lively subculture. The sense of a DIY art space. The artistic work of course!
I liked the way you were free to dip in and out of work, chat, socialise.
It's wonderful to see the real fringe happening at last!"
