A Guinness world record for the weirdest foreskin, ropeheads who strangely know each other, and the difficulty of dropping your laser in deep space were subjects that invaded the minds of the audience for Aik 'n' Sides last night.
Six sold-out shows already, and good crowds generally have cheered Fringe Festival organisers as the festival approaches the half-way mark.
Pecha Kucha stands uncomfortably on the edge of a precipice.
Tell us your life story in 25 words.
A personal tribute to New Zealand theatre identity Warwick Broadhead saw Dunedin's Octagon strewn with broken pottery last night after a mass smashing of cups.
The Downton Abbey-style family that sprouted from Richard Huber's mind has some surprisingly articulate servants.
A collaboration between artists in the mental health community and the Dunedin Fringe Festival has provided the latest fashion item in the city's art world.
New Zealand theatre personality Warwick Broadhead, brought to life in film-maker Florian Habicht's Rubbings From a Live Man, was a ''leader of his own cottage industry of expression'', Dudley Benson tells Shane Gilchrist.
Explorations of nostalgia, memory and the stuff of childhood - with a Japanese flavour - are behind a Dunedin Fringe Festival art exhibition that opened yesterday.
You know you are in a fully fledged City of Literature when poetry can pack a venue over two nights, leaving disappointed punters without a ticket turned away from the door.
You could see it reflected in the eyes of the bemused and slightly alarmed cruise ship passengers taking in the sights on George St.
They had to compete with rap music coming from a nearby bar, and an audience of just two people, but a group of poets bravely took their art to the Octagon last night.
Nicole Wilkie leapt, spun, flicked her hair in the direction of the Robbie Burns statue, then crawled dramatically across the vertical wall underneath the stony-faced Scottish poet.
They are not long out of art school, they want to turn art upside-down, and their opening night act is something of a secret - Zoe Crook and Aodhan Madden are positioning themselves on the fringe of the fringe.
The inherent humour of beards, erotic fantasies about Benedict Cumberbatch and Scottish jokes were on the stage at the Dunedin Fringe Festival-eve taster at the Regent Theatre last night.
From a tiny island in the middle of the Indian Ocean comes a contemporary dance show with the unlikely pairing of a 1980s dance movie and The Bible. Rebecca Fox talks to those involved about the French-New Zealand collaboration.
At the Dunedin Fringe Festival programme launch, Octagon, Friday, February 13.
A one-woman comedy boasting undoubtedly the longest name of any show at this year's Dunedin Fringe Festival mixes equal measures of light and dark, writes Shane Gilchrist.
The Dunedin Fringe Festival line up next year includes the 2014 Scottish comedian of the year.
