TOTNES FRINGE FESTIVAL

Totnes Fringe is a Theatre Festival built to fill a cultural gap
This is an ambitious platform for live performance, something that brings work to Totnes, takes over its spaces, and gives audiences a reason to show up. This isn’t a single-venue festival. It’s theatre across the town — in civic buildings, pubs, gardens, laundrettes, and anywhere else a performance can hold an audience. Work appears where you don’t expect it, and sometimes where you do — but either way, it asks you to engage. We programme a mix of local, regional and visiting artists, with a focus on new work, risk-taking, and ideas that feel current.  We pay artists (80% of Box Office Revenues), not as an afterthought, and not “if there’s anything left”, but as a core principle. If we want serious work, we need to take artists seriously. That’s part of making the festival credible — to audiences, to funders, and to the artists themselves.