Tag Archive for the term: fringe2008 + interview

One of performance poetry’s champions and a speeding freight train of a Fringe regular, Jem Rolls is back with a show called How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Mall.

(We chatted for a quite a while and then other Indyishers couldn’t resist joining in to talk about Montreal, which I ended up [...]

Talkin about rain, music, Montreal Fringe 2008 shows and what a rover does and the funniest things rovers have had to carry between Fringe venues, and the unified theory of everything…

Conversation with the writer director of Even Steven, a play in the Montreal Fringe 2008, about fighting in relationships and the difficulty of doing this love thing for the very first time. We talked about putting the show together, blocking to the stage they had been given for the Fringe, and the challenge of getting [...]

This time chatting with Mark of Without Annette improv who have a show in this year’s Montreal Fringe called Argument with a Dolphin. Check out the Indyish review of Argument With a Dolphin!

Another in this new series of conversations with artists crammed round the web cam, this time I sit down with the awesome ladies of Influx Dance to talk about parenting, the accessibility of dance, the communication and beauty in sign gesture, and their love of the Montreal Fringe:

Another interview with an artist in town for the Montreal Fringe, this time I hung out with Marni Rice and talked about how she evolved her show (Songs of an Immigrant - Tales from Paris) from an improvised busker piece to a show with directorial intention and a fourth wall.

Took a moment yesterday for a quick chat with Tristan Brand about the show he’s producing, See Bob Run, a play by Daniel MacIvor, starring the wonderfully talented and kind Lydia Zadel, showing here at the Montreal Fringe. Because of Tristan’s job outdoor-site-coordinating the Montreal Fringe we also ended up talking a bit about the [...]

I did a couple quick video interviews in the Fringe Tent yesterday, which gave some interesting insight into the range of arts involved in the Fringe’s “Festival of Freedom of Expression”. In this one, meet D, manager for the Fringe hiphop show Carlito Nothing to Lose, an enthusiastic promoter of real stories and local pride [...]

Penny Ashton travels the world with her one-woman shows, spreading smart feminist wit and thought, often in rhyme. She is in Montreal these days for her show Busty Rhymes, and we scooped her up to host our Marathon Mess show going down this Friday, June the 13th. We sat down at Casa del Popolo to [...]