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Article: Surviving life on the fringe: twenty-five years after it started, Edmonton's fringe festival hasn't stopped taking risks.(ARTS WEST)
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- August 28, 2006
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Every summer, Canadian actors and playwrights flit from city to city, getting plump on accolades, or starving. Their final destination is the largest spawning ground of acts in North America--Edmonton's International Fringe Theatre Festival, an 11-day extravaganza of inexpensive, unpredictable drama and mayhem.
Edmonton's fringe is the second largest in the world, after the original and venerable month-long fringe festival in Edinburgh, Scotland (fringe refers to performances that are a bit out of the mainstream). Since Edmonton's inception as the first fringe in North America, 18 others have sprung up in Canada, with the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival in close ...