St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival

St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival
Genre Concert dance
Drag queen
Fringe theatre
Off-Broadway
Recital
Repertory theatre
Date(s) June
Frequency Annual
Location(s) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Inaugurated 1990
Attendance 60000+
Patron(s) McAuslan Brewing
Website
http://montrealfringe.ca/

The St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival is a festival that hosts off-Broadway, repertory, dance, music, and drag-queen performances in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[1] The festival is held annually and lasts for 20 days in June.[2] The festival was previously run by Jeremy Hechtman and Patrick Goddard,[3] but Hechtman stepped down in 2010 after being in the position for 15 years.[4]The festival has been run since 2011 by choreographer Amy Blackmore.[5]McAuslan Brewing sponsors the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival and several other festivals in Montreal, including Pop Montreal, the Montreal World Film Festival, and the Fantasia Festival.[6] TJ Dawe's The Slip-Knot premiered at the festival in 2001.[7] The 2007 festival featured a mass fake marriage for theatre-goers at the beginning of the festival and then a corresponding mass fake divorce at the end symbolised by the eating of timbits.[8] In 2008, Susan Freedman's Sixty-Four and No More Lies was performed at the festival.[9] Contemporary dance troupe Imbroglio performed a dance called "Oppo" at the festival in 2010.[10] Andrew Kooman's She Has a Name was presented at the Montreal Arts Interculturels as part of the festival in 2012.[11]

Outdoor venues at the 2014 festival suffered from the rainy weather, but several shows were sold out, including Blood Wild and My Playwright Sister, [12]

References

  1. ↑ Regis St Louis (2009). Montréal & Québec City Encounter. Lonely Planet. p. 26. ISBN 1741790557.
  2. ↑ Regis St. Louis; Simona Rabinovitch (2010). Montréal & Québec City City Guide. Lonely Planet. p. 14. ISBN 1741791707.
  3. ↑ "This year's action: 700 performances". The Gazette (Montreal). June 9, 2008. Retrieved August 31, 2012.
  4. ↑ Richard Burnett (August 31, 2012). 31, 2012 "Festival directors: Would you like a beer with that?" Check |url= value (help). Hour Magazine.
  5. ↑ Bill Brownstein (June 11, 2011). 11, 2011 "Director is mesmorized by tricks of the trade" Check |url= value (help). The Montreal Gazette.
  6. ↑ Jamie O'Meara (November 18, 2010). "Centre St-Ambroise's Dave Cool: Kings of beer, patrons of arts". Hour Community. Retrieved August 31, 2012.
  7. ↑ TJ Dawe (2011). The Slip-Knot: A One-person Show. Brindle and Glass. p. 1. ISBN 1926972783.
  8. ↑ Laura Roberts (October 25, 2007). "V for Vixen: How to make a fake marriage work". Hour Community. Retrieved August 31, 2012.
  9. ↑ "SFU People in the News". Simon Fraser University. June 20, 2008. Retrieved August 31, 2012.
  10. ↑ Midnight Poutine (Fringe Fest Dance Review: "Oppo" by Imbroglio). June 13, 2010 http://www.midnightpoutine.ca/theatre/2010/06/fringe_fest_dance_review_oppo_by_imbroglio/. Retrieved August 31, 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ↑ "Event: She Has a Name (Fringe)". The Charlebois Post. June 12, 2012. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Highlights from the Fringe Festival’s first weekend". Pat Donnelly, Montreal Gazette, June 16, 2014
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