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Plymouth Fringe Festival to present month-long festival of online performances

Throughout August 2020, Plymouth Fringe Festival will be presenting a series of live-streamed performances showcasing some of the far South West’s most exciting theatre-makers, comedians, poets, dancers and live performance artists.
A still from A Summer of Birds by Laura Horton
A still from A Summer of Birds by Laura Horton

Founded in 2015, Plymouth Fringe Festival is the city’s annual celebration of theatre and live performance and usually takes place across three theatre venues within the city: Theatre Royal Plymouth, Barbican Theatre and The House (the University of Plymouth’s performing arts centre) each May.

The 2020 iteration of the festival, which would have marked the sixth year of the festival, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the event’s organisers have collaborated with artists due to perform at Plymouth Fringe Festival 2020 in order to re-imagine their work as online performances.

Performances will be free and will be streamed 'as live' on YouTube every Monday and Wednesday throughout August, with the performances remaining available for audiences to watch for the rest of the month.

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