Upstage host Sarah kicks off the Fringe with live interviews featuring playrights, performers, and stage managers from five shows: An Uncomfortable Dinner Party, A Love Unbecoming, Little Star: Born of Desire, Harlem of the North and Mr Potts.

Upstage goes to Fringe Park to meet with: Aussies Shane and Joe of Vehicle, Oren Safdie on his Ken Dryden tribute, Iris Behr of Hacks on her near deaths experiences, Toxique Trottoir’s community-sourced Pitit Ayiti and Lou Laurence sings for us!

Sarah sat down with six Fringe artists on a grey, cool afternoon at Fringe Park: Tiera Joly Pavelich of Lush Wanderings – Marisa Blair of A Red Riding Hood – Laura Piccinin of Lesbihonest – jem rolls of Maximum Crusoe – Hannah Cartmel of Once Upon a Time and Never Again – Phina Pipia of Ha Ha Da Vinci.

Sarah Deshais continues her stellar theatre show Upstage, this week featuring interview with Emmanuel Schwartz on Le Partage at La Chapelle, Be Hope Heintzmann’s triptych on care, meditation and transformation, and esteemed puppeteer Ronnie Burkett returns to Centaur wiith his Daisy Theatre