St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival

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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]

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  12. ↑ "Highlights from the Fringe Festival’s first weekend". Pat Donnelly, Montreal Gazette, June 16, 2014


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