4th Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival: Aug. 22-31, 2008
It's Year Four of the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival, a big, bold and bodacious celebration of alternative theatre and performance arts!
53 performers. 216 shows. Six stages. And 10 days of splashy spectacle, provocative pageantry and outrageous outbursts of off-beat theatrical fun.
WHO: 53 performance groups from Indiana, U.S.A. and the world.
WHAT: More than 200 live theatre performances in 10 days, plus fine arts, film festival, street performers, and lots more.
WHEN: August 22-31, 2008
WHERE: Six venues in the Massachusetts Avenue Cultural District.
WHY: Just for a funky and fringy good time!
HOW: Buy a $3 festival badge onsite good for all 10 days, then pay $10 cash per person per show at the door, 30 minutes before any show.
2008 PERFORMANCE GROUPS ANNOUNCED
The performance groups chosen for IndyFringe 2008 are announced in this Press Release (MS Word .doc, 35K). Or click here for an Adobe PDF version (19K).
CALL FOR ENTRIES: VISUAL FRINGE
MS Word (46K) | Adobe PDF (30K)
VISUAL FRINGE PRESS RELEASE
MS Word (24K) | Adobe PDF (16K)
VISUAL THREAD PRESS RELEASE
MS Word (23K) | Adobe PDF (12K)
INDYFRINGE 2008 ENTRIES: PRESS RELEASE (2/13/2008)
MS Word (33K) | Adobe PDF (19K)
ABOVE: Sarlot and Eyde from Phoenix, Arizona, will return to
IndyFringe 2008 for the 3rd consecutive year with the Magical Cabaret.
TJ Dawe at American Cabaret Theatre May 20
TJ Dawe has performed in over 60 Fringe Festivals in Canada and the US. His 2007 summer tour included 110 performances in just under six months and 2008 is equally demanding. He wants to perform at the IndyFringe but just can’t fit it in to his busy schedule. His solution?
TJ Dawe is “whistle stopping” Indianapolis to help raise money for the IndyFringe festival. Direct from the Orlando Fringe Festival (the first leg of the 2008 Fringe US/Canadian circuit), TJ will perform one of his most popular one-man shows—The Slip-Knot—at the American Cabaret Theatre on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 7:00 pm.
“Fringe festivals give back l00% of the box office to performers. I want to help fringe festivals raise money so they can continue to support and assist independent artists. Alice Nelson (Canadian) who performed Local Celebrity had great things to say about how things went for her at IndyFringe last year” explained TJ.
TJ first visited Indianapolis two years ago for the Star Wars Convention. “I directed a One Man Star Wars show, which went from touring the fringe to touring the world. Anyway, it got me to Indy, and I really got off on walking around town, looking at all the big stone monuments. I’m also a big Kurt Vonnegut fan.”
Pauline Moffat, Executive Director of IndyFringe has worked with TJ for eighteen months to find this window of opportunity. “We are excited that performers like TJ want to come back to Indianapolis. Word of mouth in the global fringe movement is very powerful in attracting international performers to IndyFringe. And one of the great benefits of TJ visiting Indy is that he will have an audience and will not be starting from square one when the time comes to be part of the festival itself. A big audience may encourage him to perform in 2009!”
The Slip-Knot is a one person show about working horrible day jobs: stock-boy at a drug store, truck driver for a dumpster company and Christmas parcel tracker for the post office. There are three subplots: a long distance relationship, an attempt to sell a used van and the ordeal of finding an apartment in a new city.
Tickets are $25 each ($15 students and Fringe performers). You may purchase tickets here by clicking the Add to Cart button (payment via PayPal), or by phone at 317-522-8099, or e-mail: executivedirector@indyfringe.org.
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FringeFriday Last Friday Each Month
The next FringeFriday will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 25, 2008, at the Phoenix Theatre, 749 North Park Avenue, Indianapolis. Mix and mingle: 5:30 p.m., Performances: 6-7 p.m. Featured this month: the Evil Petting Zoo improv group from Hanover College with a night of comedy, mindreaders Christian and Katalina (of Mindtripping and Married 2 Magic), a comedic sketch by Lanky Wood Productions, and storyteller Celestine Bloomfield from Storytelling Arts of Indiana. This is a free event open to the public. RSVP to indyfringe@gmail.com.
FringeFriday is held on the last Friday of each month at various venues in the Massachusetts Avenue Arts and Cultural District. FringeFriday features special performances by current and past IndyFringe performers, skits, live music occasionally, and other surprises. FringeFriday typically includes a cash bar and hors d'ouevres, and admission is free.
With Thanks to our Sponsors
The Christel DeHaan Family Foundation is one of the sponsors of IndyFringe. The mission of Christel House International is to help children around the world break the cycle of poverty and become self-sufficient, contributing members of their societies. We thank the foundation for its generous support of the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival!
Additional funding provided by The Indianapolis Foundation, NUVO, the Arts Council of Indianapolis, and Young & Laramore. Sponsor page...
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