Sydney Fringe Festival 2014 Is Almost Here!
One of the highlights of the calendar in our fair city is the Sydney Fringe Festival. This year it will run for the whole month of September at a range of venues around the city.
Fringe festivals are a worldwide phenomenon celebrating the cultural heart of a city. Sydney’s Fringe enters its fifth year and is the largest independent arts festival in NSW. With a strong focus on underground and alternative productions, the events at the fringe festival range from music and plays to musical theatre and burlesque. Dancing, visual arts, and of course comedy, the Fringe has it all. The more quirky, out there, and difficult to define, the better. The Sydney Fringe gives Sydney-siders time and opportunity to revel in the dark heart of their city’s culture, and explore those roads less travelled.
This year’s Fringe has a blockbuster lineup, full of diverse and exciting acts. The Giant Dwarf venue, set up by the team behind the Chaser, will surely attract the biggest crowds. With shows featuring the Chaser boys themselves, the kings of Sydney’s improv scene The Bear Pack: Steen Raskopoulos and Carlo Ritchie, and Dave Chappelle’s old partner in crime Donnell Rawlings, there is not likely to be many empty seats for the whole of September.
Other highlights include The Book Binder from Trick of the Light Theatre, a spectacle of shadowplay and puppetry weaving in and out of an intriguing mystery. Eastside favourite Declan Kelly teams up with Jenna Murphy to present a program of Roots music, dripping with reggae and afro-beat, at the old 505. Platform shorts shapes us as one not to miss, a selection of short dance sequences by both established and emerging choreographers
I’m keeping my diary free for Procne and Tereus and for Alice Fraser‘s show. A modern retelling of an ancient tragedy to get things whirring, and one of Sydney’s best comedians to get the hopes back up again!
So whatever your tastes, whatever your interests, whatever your cup of tea, the Sydney Fringe Festival is sure to have something for you.
WHAT: Sydney Fringe Festival!
WHERE: Various cool venues around the city
WHEN: September 1-30
MORE INFO: Here
