Fringe benefits

IN DUBLIN, the curtain has fallen on another Absolut Fringe festival.

Its roots are in theatre, but the Fringe is home to a diverse programme of live performance: theatre, circus, comedy, music, and dance. One of this year’s more charming pieces (The SI Witkiewicz Portrait Painting Firm) centred on portrait-sketching.

The Fringe provides artists with a space to take creative risks. Sometimes these risks pay off. Sometimes they don’t.