A mini-fringe festival is currently being held on campus, allowing York students a sneak preview of some of the shows which are being taken to the Edinburgh Fringe this year.
The festival, which was initially conceived last year as a practice run for the actors who would be taking shows to the Festival, slowly evolved into a bigger and more comprehensive event as it emerged that the amount of DramaSoc members going to Edinburgh to perform this year had more than doubled.
The festival has been running since Sunday and will continue until this evening and has already featured a wide range of performances, such as the highly rated The Second Star to the Right. Also included are performances by Comedy Soc’s improvisation group The Shambles and their sketch comedy group The Sketch Emporium, as well as many more of the shows which have featured at the Drama Barn earlier in the year.
Speaking to Vision, DramaSoc President Dan Wood said that “the fact that we’ve got a hundred people from York going to the Fringe in quality shows is a real tribute to the society.” He added that, before they go, they’d “love to show people in York what we can do!”
Wood went on to say that the event came at the end of “a good year for DramaSoc” and praised the Ex-Chair Joe Hufton and his committee for “putting the society into a position whereby the society can really kick on with ambition this year.” He also remarked that he hoped that this event and events like it would “go some way towards forging a real camaraderie between all of the performing societies on campus.”