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As the dust settles on the 7th Guildford Fringe Festival I thought it time to reflect on a wonderful month and to thank a few people. However, if you will forgive a little self-indulgence I would like to begin this blog about July with news of a rather momentous event which took place in August. Charlotte […]

A View From The Fringe… We could list all of Jen Powell’s achievements, a catalogue of posts and positions, the boards and committees that have been graced by Jen’s presence or even her passion for Welsh Rugby…but we only have a few hundred words to play with and there would be no room for anything […]

Guildford Fringe Festival is planning a show-stopping, foot-tapping and fun-filled Free Fringe line-up as part of this year’s jam-packed Festival programme. The excitement begins at the Free Fringe Weekend on 29 and 30 June, when you can’t fail to be entertained if you head into the town centre. On 29 June, join professional caricaturist David […]

Brainfruit Productions are bringing their singing bear, dancing wolf & buffalo to Guildford’s 2019 fringe. Their acclaimed comic musical, Bear North, will play at the Star Inn on Saturday July 14th at 7pm.   Set in the wilds of Northern Canada, the show has just returned from New Zealand’s fringe circuit where, in 2017, the company […]

Oxfordshire theatre-maker Tina Sederholm brings her critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe show, Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful to the Guildford Fringe Festival on 12th July, 2019. Poet and raconteur Tina Sederholm knows she is an adult but has always felt like the problem child. As her father is consumed by Alzheimer’s, she tries to find […]

As part of the build up to Fringe 2019 we are speaking with just a few of the people that have helped us on our way and today we have popped along to the Guildford offices of Keith Churchouse, Director of Chapters Financial, parent company of Fringe Sponsors, SaidSo. There is every chance that you […]

In their historic home county of Oxfordshire, Banbury-based Peppered Wit Productions kicked off their summer tour on 31st May/1st June with exclusive previews to local audiences of their latest production ‘The Wasp’ by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm. These previews marked the beginning of their 2019 tour which includes ​Guildford Fringe Festival on 2 July and sees […]

Late Night Shorts by Guildburys Theatre Company on 5 & 6 July  Guildburys Theatre Company debuts at the Guildford Fringe Festival by taking audiences on a whistle stop tour of a US airport, a dysfunctional office somewhere in Surrey and a place where the future catches up with the past. Late Night Shorts is short […]

EUAN by Georgie Bailey A play about who knows what. Toby, Y and Z have lost Euan. Euan’s gone. Euan ain’t coming back. No one can know that Euan’s gone, cus’, well, they were ‘sposed to be looking after Euan. And if the boss finds out then she ain’t gonna be happy. Like, really not […]

There are some individuals that can’t be constrained by a job title and although ‘Tourism Marketing and Development Manager at Guildford Borough Council’ would be grand enough for most people, it doesn’t come close to describing the wonderful, remarkable force of nature that is, Mrs Diana Roberts. But then again, ‘Queen of Guildford’ might not […]