Over 100 entries for Buxton Fringe with a difference

Buxton Festival Fringe is playing now and looks set to be a soaring success after organisers announced a whopping 100 entries!

Fringe Committee member Viv Marriott, Marketing Officer Stephanie Billen, Floella Flap-a-lot from the Sculpture Trail at Buxton Fringe, and Floella’s creator, Andrea Lewis, posed outside Hawkshead in Buxton’s Spring Gardens to mark the opening day of the Fringe. 

The Fringe promises a host of online productions - and even performances available by phone! While some exhibitions are still able to go ahead at venues or are being staged outdoors.

For the Sculpture Trail see http://www.artupclose.org/collaborations/virtual-sculpture-trail-at-buxton-fringe-2020/ 

Full details of Buxton Fringe events are available on www.buxtonfringe.org.uk and on the free Buxton Fringe App. 

One online production will be of the Chris Nickson novel The Crooked Spire, which has been adapted for the stage by Fringe award-winning writer, Mary Hennessy.

Produced by Ashgate Heritage Arts ‘The Crooked Spire,’ is being presented online on Friday and Saturday, July 17 and 18, at 7pm.

The creators have been collaborating from a distance to write the script, songs and music for this original piece and will also host a Q and A session at 8pm on July 18 to discuss their experience of working collaboratively during lockdown.

‘The Crooked Spire’ itself is a story of murder, mystery, deception and love set in Chesterfield during the 1360 building of St Mary’s Church spire, in the aftermath of a global pandemic - just a short few years after the Black Death had ravaged the country.

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LAUNCH: Fringe Committee member Viv Marriott (behind), Marketing Officer Stephanie Billen, Floella Flap-a-lot from the Sculpture Trail at Buxton Fringe, and Floella’s creator, Andrea Lewis. Photograph by Rob Harrison