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This collaborative project captures thoughts, conversations, and reactions that come out of experiences at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival September 1 - 16, 2000.

We hope you will add your threads on the Philadelphia Fringe Festival by clicking on the "prompts" below. What moved you? What irked you? Share your Fringe experience.

What is "fringy" about Old City and the Fringe Festival?
Is there any truth to the old Philadelphia bias that "no one lives north of Market Street?"

The Stendhal Syndrome and You
This real-life affliction causes a person to become overwhelmed, stressed, delusional, and unstable when in the presence of art. What Fringe event moved you to tears, caused you to swoon and stumble into the streets awestruck by the power of art?

Last Repast
If your next meal were your last, what would it be? With what Fringe character would you choose to dine?

"F" Is for Fringe: A Collaborative Hypertext Novel
Whatever Lorenzo Da Ponte may have left behind had eluded treasure hunters for nearly two centuries. [more...]