Fringe short, sharp and gone in a blink

The fringe is a blur. The festival is only four days old and it's already feeling like a ride on a runaway train in a burlesque fun park.

Bubblewrap and Boxes, I Love Camping and Head Full of Toys have been and gone at the Fortune Theatre and The Intricate Art of Really Caring also finished at the Globe Theatre last night.

Grab a seat on board, because most of the shows have very limited performance seasons.

Funny people Steve Wrigley, Jeremy Elwood, Irene Pink, T. J. McDonald and James Nokise have also packed up their jokes and skits and returned to wherever it is that comedians hang out when they're being serious.

The provocative dance theatre piece Fu Ta Go/Twins opens at the Dunedin Railway Station tonight.

Fu Ta Go, which is Japanese for twins, would challenge audiences, according to dancer Kajsa Louw.

"It has a spiritual element. Dance used to be about worship and connecting with the heavens. It feels like there is an aspect of that."

I saw the very clever and very funny serialised live radio play Doom Gravy - A Radio Disaster in Six Parts at the Festival Club at XII Below on Saturday night.

The performance, with Amos Mann, Radio One breakfast host Aaron Hawkins and Leigh Paterson, had a packed club in hysterics.

Drop down and tune in before normal programming resumes.

The enlightening and fascinating "Opuscules" by Pearl with a Girl Earring will be popping up at various locations around the city this week.

With titles like Learn How to Conduct an Imaginary Orchestra (a beginner's guide) and Suspected Secret Fantasies of Powerless Public Figures, they will go like literary hot cakes.

The Octagon continues to host daily fun and hi-jinks with those irreverent brownies at "Camp Dunedin".

Learn about some of the merit badges Brown Owl never told you about.

The ever-popular Chindogu Fringe Inventions exhibition opened at the Otago Settlers Museum yesterday.

Discover how to slice vegetables while playing the guitar, in addition to other useful life skills.

Artist Jai Hall turns the Dunedin Botanic Garden sound shell into an Alice in Wonderland world at midday today in Chapter Six.

Another performance proving popular with the little ones is Dunedin actor Danny Still's Pied Piper antics in Mr Bun Bun's Terrible Day at various locations around town.

At 7pm, the Blue Oyster Gallery Performance Series resumes with Bodies and Theatres from Richard Serra to Warwick Broadhead at the Havana Club and Cinema, on the corner of Moray Pl and Filleul St.

The Dunedin Fringe Festival continues to career down its crazy kaleidoscopic tunnel.

All aboard!