PRESS RELEASE for immediate release May 2022
Buxton Fringe has announced that it is back to full strength after celebrating a healthy 169 entries - back to pre-Covid levels. An open-access arts festival, the Fringe runs from July 6-24 in parallel with Buxton International Festival and is one of the biggest UK Fringes between Edinburgh and Brighton.
A beautiful spa town, Buxton is surrounded by the hills of the Peak District in the heart of England in easy reach of Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and Sheffield. It is currently riding high following the redevelopment of the Grade 1 listed Crescent as the 5 star Ensana Buxton Crescent Hotel.
This year all three managed venues are taking part in the Fringe: The Green Man Gallery, the Rotunda and Underground at the Clubhouse and the Arts Centre Studio. Other venues include the United Reformed Church, Buxton’s magnificent Crescent and unusual locations such as Pooles Cavern and, out of town, High Peak Bookstore and Eyam Parish Church.
Comedy, Music and Theatre are particularly strong with award-winning comic talent including Mock the Week stand up Alasdair Beckett-King, Nathan Cassidy, Fringe favourite Kate Butch, Impromptu Shakespeare Improv Company and Upstart Crow’s Rob Rouse.
Music will fill the town thanks to choirs such as Albion, Kaleidoscope and the new Buxton Community Choir plus classical recitals and fine instrumental performances from the likes of pianist Adrian Lord, harp-guitarist Jon Pickard, classical guitarist Jonathan Prag, multi-instrumentalist Rik Roberts and others. There are small ensembles and orchestras and every variety of style from tango to big band and folk to rock with a touch of the unexpected thanks to Egriega’s genre-busting Adventures in Sound and Light.
Theatre promises more innovation with a one-woman Jekyll and Hyde, a Dr Faustus with puppets (and potatoes) and dark physical theatre in Kafkaesque. There are one-person shows such as Fotheringhay in which Jane Collier invites us to meet Mary Queen of Scots, Little Boxes featuring Little Britain’s Joann Condon and The War of the Worlds as realised by Ross Ericson. As ever there is a wonderful mix of young talent and and experienced professionals keen to tread the boards again.
Full listings are available in the free printed programme, on www.buxtonfringe.org.uk and on the free to download Buxton Fringe App. During the Fringe, the Fringe Information Desk, now in the Pavilion Gardens Conservatory near the restaurant, will be open every day from 10am-5pm.
The Fringe will also offer its traditional free showcase of events, Fringe Sunday, at the Pavilion Gardens on July 10th as well as Fringe@5 and busking outside the Fringe Desk.
Fringe chair Stephen Walker says: “The Fringe is back to full strength with a programme full to bursting with exciting performances and exhibitions, and we're looking forward to sharing the programme with our audiences.”
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