Atlanta Fringe Festival Highlights Broad Spectrum Of Creative Atlanta Artists

May 31st, 2019

This is Atlanta Fringe Festival’s 7th year showcasing the broad spectrum of artists Atlanta has to offer.

Courtesy of the Fringe Festival

The Atlanta Fringe Festival was created as a place to help those who are not yet at the center of the arts community.

Up-and-coming artists, as well as experienced performers are welcomed to showcase their talents in front of live audiences.

City Lights’ host Lois Reitzes spoke with Diana Brown, the director and founder of the Atlanta Fringe, along with Allison Dayne Smith, an actress and playwright, who will perform her work “Unrequited” next weekend.

“Unrequited” combines four of Anton Chekov’s plays into an hour-long experience. Smith took from Chekov’s work: “Uncle Vanya,” “The Cherry Orchard,” “The Seagull,” and “The Three Sisters” in order to focus on themes of theater and love.

“What I really wanted for the thesis of this play to be is the love letter to all the actors and actress that we don’t get to know because they didn’t become ‘famous,’ but their art and voice still matters,” Smith said.

“It’s me saying ‘I notice you, and I hear you and maybe that break didn’t come and maybe it never will, but that doesn’t matter because it’s you going out there and doing it.’”

This is Atlanta Fringe Festival’s 7th year showcasing the broad spectrum of artists Atlanta has to offer. Twenty-three artists, Twenty-six performances in the audio festival, six performers at the free family-friendly stage, and a recreation of the classic movie, The Princess Bride.

The festival will run from June 3-9 at multiple venues.

“It’s a really lovely way to uplift as many artists as possible from every background, any genre, any discipline, any level of experience,” Brown said.