2015 Minnesota Fringe Festival - July 30 thru August 9
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 3:00AM
Get ready for the 2015 Minnesota Fringe Festival!
Minnesota Fringe is one of many fringe festivals across the nation and around the world. All the shows you'll see at Fringe were selected randomly. (Would you believe it's done by placing numbered ping-pong balls into a bingo cage and pulling them out, one by one?)
From stage veterans to people who are brand new to theater, Minnesota Fringe is a forum for anyone with a story to tell and provides the support to make producing a show as easy as possible.
Very generally speaking, Fringes are:
• Focused on the performing arts: Theater, dance, puppetry, spoken word and the like make up the Fringe core, but festivals often may include film and visual arts elements. Fringes don't have a focus on a single discipline or genre, but are a performing-arts smörgåsbord.
• Uncensored: No one gets too fussy about swears or nudity but squeaky-clean content isn't marginal or discouraged, either.
• Easy to participate in: Ticket prices are low for audiences and production fees are low for artists. Show selection varies from festival to festival but is generally quite open to participation by the gamut of amateurs to professionals.
• Festivals: They last from just a few days to a few weeks and involve lots of people at multiple venues.
• Original: Fringes feature a huge array of original material—sometimes by design, but usually because that’s what Fringes naturally do well.
• Rapid-fire: Typically, tech is minimal and time is a factor at our festivals. Shows are often kept brief (Fringes most frequently have shows right around 60 minutes in length) and technical requirements kept simple (minor sets, streamlined cues, nothing elaborate).
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