What is a Fringe Festival Anyway?
​Fringe festivals are all about providing an accessible avenue for independent theatre artists to produce and perform their work in front of an audience. The Fringe is really the essence of theatre; virtually anybody can submit a show to the Fringe and the festivals place no limits on content so shows can be bold, raw and uncensored or funny, light and silly. Anything! 

THE UNIQUE RULES OF FRINGE
1. THEATRE COMPANIES IN THE FRINGE GET PICKED BY LOTTERY! (LIKE THE 649! Only your chances are better and it won't make you rich) This year our lottery ticket was $25 +hst = $28.25 and you have 12 chances to win! 

2. THEATRE COMPANIES DECIDE ON THEIR CONTENT AND IT CAN BE WHATEVER THEY WANT IT TO BE (given the laws of the land) 

3. IF chosen for the FRINGE and you accept, you pay a production fee of $325 +hst = $367.25 to  which supplies you with

• A Theatre Tech to run your lights and sound
• A Venue and 8 scheduled performances of your under 60 minute show (this is the only thing we are strict about) 
• Festival Marketing that promotes festival shows with what you supply them: Poster, Image, Content
• Box Office ( of which you get 100% of the stated Ticket price) You will not be getting box office fees which maybe associated with the Box Office .  For example this year the Ticket price will be $12 per regular ticket, so what the audience will pay will be $12 +Box Office Fee + Tax = $Some number The Fringe Companies will be getting the $12 per ticket of audience that attends their performances and the rest will go to Box Office. We will establish what those fees will be when we figure out what our venue will be and the fees associated with that choice. There will be discounted tickets that are agreed upon, for FRINGE PASSES etc but the companies will get the Base Ticket Price of those tickets to be determined when we have decided on venues. Each company will receive a detailed breakdown of their audience attendance and a cheque within two weeks of the end of the festival. 
• The helpful ear of our Producer

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Again this year Theatre Kingston will be producing the Fringe Festival as part of the Kick and Push Festival.  From Aug 4th to 14th 2022 we will host 12 theatre companies in two venues for 8 shows each.  We are purposely having a smaller fringe this year (usually we have 18 shows) so that we can hope for better attendance for each company. We are also supplying each company with 8 shows instead of the usual six for the same reasons.   
​Here is the  proposed schedule: 

The 2022 Theatre Kingston Storefront Fringe Lottery
is now COMPLETE! Look forward to the Exciting things these Companies will give us this SUMMER! 

These were our
2021 FRINGE COMPANIES from last year that may inspire you to go Fringing this Summer!

FRINGE GUIDE 2021

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