• changes to the programme

  • The Fairy who wanted to Fly won't be flying at The Feel Good Larder. Instead, the Saturday and Sunday morning performances are replaced by Stories Alive while the Sunday afternoon performance will be half of BackZeVore presenting Stories with Hare!.

  • Matt David has unfortuately had to withdraw from Fringe TheatreFest this year. There will of course be refunds for those who had already booked for I Think I've Made a Terrible Mistake.

  • Due to unforeseen circumstances Inventing Tesla from Amelie Vacarri won't be part of Fringe TheatreFest 2024.

    However, we are absolutely delighted that this creates the opportunity for Formidable Force - a song and spoken word trio that debuted last year and who spring out of Project:Dance! - to take a couple of the vacated slots.

    They will be performing on Sunday 30 June in St Anne's at 1pm and 2pm (two different sets). The four remaining slots vacated by Inventing Tesla on Thu, Fri and Sat, will remain unfilled.

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• Food Passport

  Something brand new for 2024

  

  The Flourishing Barnstaple team have created a Fringe TheatreFest Food Passport, working with local eateries to ensure that there is bodily sustenance available within easy reach of the busy Fringe-goer at a special discount.

  Ten establishments have signed up for the inaugural passport, offering between them a wide range of fare. These include a number of Fringe venues - Barnstaple Coffee Shop, The Feel Good Larder, Fat Cats and JCT27's sister establishment Latitude 48, joined by Roots, Tiffin, Artisarni, Arti's Too..., The New Amsterdam and Bull & Bear. We know many of these are particular favourites with some of our audiences already but hopefully this scheme will encourage sampling a wider range of offers - in much the same way that Fringe encourages audeinces to try all sorts of theatre fare.

  To take advantage of the discounts you will need to be sporting a Fringe Badge and carrying a Fringe Food Passport which you will find at the Fringe Central Box-Office in the Queen's Theatre foyer.

  Another benefit of having that badge!

  Please note that there is an error in the printed Food Passport. Latitude 48's very generous 25% discount on food was wrongly described as including drink. The discount applies only to food.

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Now in its 18th year, Fringe TheatreFest is a four-day feast of comedy, drama, street-theatre, dance, music, magic and more. 180 performances of 60 different productions in Barnstaple, North Devon, at the end of June.

Photo credit: Green Mind Photography

Fringe TheatreFest inspires with a range of performances at exceptional prices - £4 to £8 in ticketed venues, pay-what-you-will bucket-collections in outside and less formal spaces.

There are wonderful local companies on show alongside performers from around the country and across the globe drawn by our reputation as perhaps the friendliest Fringe in the UK.

If you're looking for a paper-brochure to help you plan your itinerary, you'll find them at the Queen's Theatre and Barnstaple Library. If you wish to support the Fringe by becoming a member, you will receive a brochure (and badges) through the post. See below for further details.

the 2024 companies...

click an image to find out more or go to shows for a listing of all 60 productions on offer

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