Dunedin Fringe Festival

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.

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.