More than 150 acts have signed up for Buxton Festival Fringe 2014.
Almost 600 performances will be staged across more than 30 venues in the Fringe which lasts nearly three weeks.
“We’re delighted with the variety of events on offer,” says Fringe chair Keith Savage.
“It's great to see artists and performers returning year after year—a sign that they enjoy Buxton and that they have built a loyal following.
“It’s also exciting to welcome new and young performers who see Buxton as a good place to present their work—often for the first time.”
In the theatre category, there is the return of groups such as Butterfly, who will be performing Dracula’s Women Underground in Poole’s Cavern, and Freerange Theatre, this year reprising Spoonface Steinberg as well as staging a new show, Phillipa and Will Are Now in a Relationship.
The Fringe has always provided a platform for younger performers and this year attractions include After Alice by student company Orange and Pip Theatre, a schools’ version of Les Miserables, JM Youth Productions’ As You Like It, Dilate Theatre’s Asylum and Blue Remembered Hills from REC Youth Theatre.
There will also be a youthful production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury by Buxton regulars PB Theatricals.
Fringe performers showing resourcefulness will be Crowd of Two with a two-person version of The Railway Children and a two-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus from Uproot Theatre Co.
Buxton Fringe runs from 9 until 27 July. More information is available at the Buxton Fringe web site.