From New York City to Edinburgh to Adelaide, Australia, fringe theater festivals have become a staple of summertime culture, with troupes of actors producing experimental work on shoestring budgets and set-less stages. But none of these dozens of festivals are quite like the five-year-old Berkshire Fringe, in western Massachusetts, where its organizers work out of a cafe on Main Street because the wireless Internet is free.
“Most fringe festivals are in cities, but here we are, out in the Berkshires, writing press releases on our laptops over coffee and trying to save every cent that we can,” said Sara Katzoff, one of the Fringe’s three artistic directors, as she sat in the Fuel Coffee Shop in downtown Great Barrington. “Fringe theater is a different kind of theater, and we’re a different kind of fringe.”
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