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Taking the Fringe out of Infringement

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Two great festivals are better than one, so why can’t we all just get along?

by Shawn Katz
22.06.2011

Sitting through the short docs presented at Infringement’s Night of Cultural Resistance, I couldn’t help but think that, despite all the history and persistent bad blood between the two organizations, the festival’s artistic links with the Montreal Fringe are tenuous at best.

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Not Just Clowning Around

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Les Chroniques du Laboratoire Unik and Manga transcend typical circus & clown shows at Fringe

by Jake Freekin Smith
18.06.2011

Another beautiful day at the Fringe. The sun was shining, the beer was flowing, and there was no shortage of weirdos about. And I think I found some of the weirdest weirdos out there. Good thing that’s exactly what I was looking for.

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Hopping and Pop-ing at Fringe

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The Montreal Fringe keeps ears, eyes and bellies satisfied

by Jake Freekin Smith
18.06.2011

What a wonderful day at the Fringe! If you aren’t out enjoying what is one of Montreal’s best festivals, then you might want to start. There’s only a few days left, so get in there while it’s hot! Seriously. Now. GO! Go see shows!

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Raising the bar

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“The Only Bar” packs ’em in for Fringe Fest performance that has art imitating life almost a little too closely

by Jamie O'Meara
14.06.2011

Staging a play based around boisterous Montreal barflies in an actual Montreal bar that attracts clouds of them? Brilliant. Staging the play whilst said boisterous barflies are actually in the bar buzzing loudly over their beer? That complicates things.

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Best of the Fest

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Festival St-Ambroise Fringe de Montreal

by Alex Woolcott
17.06.2010

The Fringe Festival is almost half over, with only three or four more chances to catch your next favorite show before it’s gone. If you believe the hype, your next favorite show is either Miss Sugarpuss Must Die!, Dance Animal or anything with Dan Jeanotte (13th Hour, You and Me and Me and You, Uncalled [...]

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6 Days, 6 Shows – Another Fringe Round Up

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Festival St-Ambroise Fringe de Montreal

by James Gartler
17.06.2010

In a show of Rover writer solidarity, the following Fringe reviews will continue to use Alex Woolcott’s rating system of ampersands-as-stars. After all, there’s enough chaos playing out around town. High time for a little order and continuity.  Though in one case, zero ampersands will be necessary. No matter: another show has earned far more [...]

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Frantic Fringaholic

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Festival St-Ambroise Fringe de Montreal

by Anna Fuerstenberg
15.06.2010

The best play yet, Jesus Jello: The Miraculous Confection, is written by a witty and talented playwright and directed with great imagination and humour. Joanne Sarazen has crafted a very funny script and when Tristan Lalla does a poignant disquisition on the use of a narrator, while actually doing the job as God, she demonstrates [...]

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20 years, 3 days, 9 shows – a Fringe round up

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Festival St-Ambroise Fringe de Montreal

by Alex Woolcott
14.06.2010

Twenty years is a long time for anything to last, and like my parents’ marriage, the Montreal Fringe has managed to survive the last two decades more or less intact. It’s bigger then ever (also like my parents), making it almost impossible to see it all. In the spirit of helping the huddled masses make [...]

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Dancing Animals

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Festival St-Ambroise Fringe de Montreal, Dance Animal Presents: Freaks of Nature, Studio Juste Pour Rire

by James Gartler
11.06.2010

Crank up the base, slip into a black leotard and unleash your inner beast—Dance Animal is back. After breaking attendance records at the 2009 Fringe, Zoofest and Wildside festivals, this home-grown, bilingual, dance comedy troupe returns to the Fringe with new faces, new moves, a bone to pick with Parliament and a secret plan to [...]

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… and rants

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Festival St-Ambroise Fringe de Montreal, Rant, Théâtre Ste. Catherine

by Anna Fuerstenberg
11.06.2010

This was Keir Cutler’s eighth rant. I have witnessed two of the previous performances and he is consistently provocative and interesting. This rant is a self indulgent look at problems with anger management. The writing is wonderful and the performance including Keir’s glaucoma like bulging eyeballs is over the top, which is more like the [...]

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