Toronto Fringe Festival

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The Toronto Fringe Festival is an annual theatre festival, featuring uncensored plays by unknown or well-known artists, taking place in the theatres of Toronto. Several productions originally mounted at the Fringe have later been remounted for larger audiences, including the Tony Award-winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone.

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It is well known for not having a jury to judge which plays will be showed. Instead it uses a lottery system which gives each play an equal chance. It depends mostly on volunteers, corporate sponsors, and government grants. One notable feature is the 24 hour playwriting contest in which contestants write a play in one day based on items selected by the Fringe and the winning play is performed on the last day of the festival.

[edit] External links

• Fringe Toronto