We continue our journey through the wonderful world of Gothenburg Fringe with six more acts coming your way at this year’s festival, taking place on 28 August until 6 September.
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Throughout June and July, we’ll be giving you an insight into all of the shows coming your way at this year’s festival. With artists from 28 countries performing shows across the city in a plethora of genres, we’re thrilled with this year’s lineup with you. Here’s Artist reveal #4 of 10!
A Truck Stop Diner. In the Middle of Nowhere. On the Night Shift.
by Kendall Savage (Canada)
IOLA GABOUR is a lonely waitress on the night shift, at a truck stop diner in the middle of nowhere. When the local radio station hosts a beauty pageant to win backstage passes to her favorite rock band, IOLA is determined to find out what’s beyond the parking lot gravel.
First…..she needs to figure out the talent portion, what to wear and how to get there?
Presented by Kendall Savage, bringing the Best Clown Show at Montreal Fringe 2024 to Sweden for the very first time.
Miss Radio
by Naomi Collier Broms (Netherlands)
What if we could read each other’s minds? In ‘Miss Radio’, two women discover they can. Drawing from questions around technological progress, the performance imagines the human body as a living receiver – a channel able to sense and amplify the inner thoughts of others. What emerges is something between a seance and a satellite transmission. A sci-fi exploration of what it means to listen to the ones we love.
Who will love this show?
The work is aimed at audiences who are interested in experimental theatre and electronic music. It is also aimed at people with an interest in themes such as communication, queer connection, language, intimacy, and futurity.
Ecotone
by Moon & Linus (Hong Kong)
Ecotone is a cross-disciplinary trilogy by composer-clarinettist Linus Fung and live visual artist Moon.noon inspired by the dehumanisation of human communications to date. The title Ecotone, an ecological term describing a region of transition between two biological communities, symbolises the collaboration between the two art forms, the two artists and the inevitability of communication progression of mankind.
Ecotone was composed in an overlaying manner – where two artists took turns to respond and extend the piece musically/visually one by one until completion (15-20 minutes) like penpals.
“Letter” is inspired by the handwritten letter experience dominant in the past. Writing with one’s personal handwriting, sealed with a stamp, awaiting the pigeon’s return – the experience is much cherished, requires a certain amount of peace of mind, yet fills every stroke with unfiltered emotions.
“Code” reflects on the era of telegraphy. Communications became instant, yet coding and decoding opened the door to miscommunications.
“Data” is a response to the Big Data era we now live in, where everyday life involves internet, search engines, and AI assistance. Technologies transform human communication, and information overload challenges what we really trust.
The music of Ecotone is classically scored for live processed solo clarinet in B-Flat with a clocked effect-only Eurorack with the live clarinet as the sole sound source.
The live visual of Ecotone is audio-reactive and noise-based, involving a merge of digital and analog manipulations.
Åsexuell – en våt kärlekshistoria
by Louise Halvardsson & Badkaret Scenkonst (Sweden)
Åsexuell – en våt kärlekshistoria är ett vågat, poetiskt och humoristiskt performance om året-runt-bad och kärleken till en å. Av och med Louise Halvardsson & Badkaret Scenkonst – som använder sig av praktiker från fysisk teater, scenpoesi och performancekonst. Frågor väcks kring samtycke, svartsjuka och objektifiering av naturen. Ett utforskande av queera relationer och ekosexualitet. Publiken kan förvänta sig att bli lätt chockade på ett bra sätt. Innan huvudakten bjuds det på ett ett kort förspel av Louise Halvardsson.
Sagt av publiken efter premiären i maj 2026:
“Koreografi 100 %, gick in i det undermedvetna, generad, kan vara det bästa jag sett.”
“Ååå! Chockerande! Rädsla! Mod! Glädje! Wow!”
“Bra, intressant modig performance som väckte mycket känslor. Känner mig undrande, intressant, öppnar för fler frågor.”
“Högklassig, magnifik och uppfinningsrik text. Flöde, överraskande, skön känsla, nuddar det undermedvetna.”
“I stil med Europa efter regnet.”
Louise Halvardsson, verksam i Göteborg, är författare, punkpoet och scenkonstnär som utforskar ämnen som identitet och sexualitet. Hon förälskade sig i ån Assman när hon bodde i Uddebo.
Badkaret Scenkonst (medverkande Sarah-Bo Åkergren och Hedda Braun) är en konstnärlig performancegrupp i Uddebo som genom kropp, röst och improvisation på ett abstrakt och poetiskt sätt belyser hur det är att vara människa i vår värld idag.
Playlist
by Impram (Sweden)
Playlist is a fully improvised show where every scene, character and joke is inspired by your favorite songs. No script, no repeats, just a brand-new music inspired comedy show. Impram is a Gothenburg based international improv group that has made silly and heartfelt improv since 2015.
Pickle Based Game Show Crunchy, Briny and Chaotic
by Liam Duffy (Ireland)
Liam Duffy is a salty comedian full of brine and will be your host for a pickle-based game-show experience, catch it in Gothenburg on its European Festival Tour!
2 lucky audience members will have their intelligence, perseverance and crunch challenged through a series of pickle based games that will test all their senses.
Prepare to open the jar for a night of undeniable hilarity, with absurd and challenging games.
Take a seat in the vinegar splash zone for an experience like no other and allow the laughter and absurdity to ferment!
Liam Duffy is an Irish comedian based in Copenhagen. He was in the final of the ‘Den Nyeste Nye 2021’ competition for new comedians in Denmark and semi-final of the ‘Box Comedy’ at the Ha’penny Inn 2022 and the final of the Lesley Anne Liddane memorial competition ’24.
A complex, intelligent, sleazy, hilarious and hairy comedian. His creative muses are Paul Verhoeven and Francis Bacon.
