10 Sep

Posted at 12:40h in Artist Interviews by
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]2017 Abortion Road Trip Capital Fringe has never shied away from featuring cutting-edge – and even controversial – work. But in 2017, Theatre Prometheus’ world premiere of Rachel Lynett’s Abortion Road Trip drew anti-choice protestors targeted the plays to...

10 Sep

Posted at 12:27h in Artist Interviews by
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Derek Hills’ theatrical journey has blossomed from being a storyteller to a playwright with two Capital Fringe productions of his work for the stage. But his Fringe story as a writer began with No Sex Please -- a...

28 Jun

Posted at 15:26h in Artist Interviews by
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]How can movement unlock community? This was a key question explored at the 2018 Capital Fringe Festival in Holon!  The three artists in Area Woman – Claire Alrich, Sarah Greenbaum, and Sadie Leigh –  articulated the concept behind the...

08 Jun

Posted at 19:31h in Artist Interviews by
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Twanna Hines is a successful media personality on the hottest topic imaginable: sex. You’ve probably seen her on CNN, or heard her on NPR, or read her work in places like Huffington Post and Fast Company. She’s even started...

01 Jun

Posted at 12:10h in Artist Interviews by
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The arc of childhood is often traced in art. Yet our progress in the “adult” world is fuzzier. What are the markers and milestones? Which ones actually matter? In 2016, Glade Dance Collective devised a new piece that journeyed...

21 May

Posted at 14:55h in Artist Interviews by
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Capital Fringe has always presented challenging works. But few Fringe performances that matched the innovative and genre-bending power of 2011’s e-Geaux (beta). Creator Joseph Price – producing under the name Pepys, Inc. – distilled improvisatory theatre and burgeoning social...

15 May

Posted at 12:38h in Artist Interviews by
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Word of mouth fuels many a Capital Fringe success. In 2015, the year that the festival relocated to its new headquarters in Trinidad, everyone seemed to be talking about POWER! Stokely Carmichael. In a moment when Black Lives Matter...

09 May

Posted at 14:24h in Artist Interviews by
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Patti Kalil, co-artistic director of Pointless Theatre, says that the road to building a thriving and ebullient company has come through collaboration – and cardboard. Capital Fringe also played a role in the founding of the company, which presented...

05 May

Posted at 17:36h in Artist Interviews by
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Capital Fringe has had a strong dance presence from the beginning of the festival’s history. Just ask Kelly Bond – who debuted a full-length work titled Sill at the inaugural Capital Fringe. Bond is a performer who is based...

12 Apr

Posted at 13:46h in Artist Interviews, Uncategorized by
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]We Happy Few have a knack for boiling down classics of theatre and literature to an engaging essence that has delighted audiences for the past eight years. Recently, the company has tackled works including Treasure Island and Frankenstein...