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2021 PREVIEW: Sending in the clowns (online): Play The Fool Fest is back

– Liz Nicholls, 12thNight.ca, 2021

Got a couple of minutes? catch a film at the Play The Fool International Short (very short) Film Festival

I’m here to report I had a blast… the beauty of this Play The Fool array is that in some way all the offerings address the surreality, the uncertainties, the absurdities, the assorted weirdnesses and terrors of the Now 

– Liz Nicholls, 12thNight.ca, 2021

Clowning around with Play the Fool International Short Film Festival

– Fawnda Mithrush, Taproot Edmonton, 2021

Play the Fool film festival shines the spotlight on clowning around

– Liane Faulder, The Edmonton Journal, 2021

Clowning around … online: the 5th annual Play The Fool Fest goes digital

– Liz Nicholls, 12thNight.ca, 2020

Some naughty, some nice: ‘Play the Fool’ clowns dance back into town

– Sean Amato, CTV News Edmonton, 2019

An outbreak of clowns: Play The Fool, E-Town’s “festival of clown and physical comedy” is back

– Liz, Nicholls, 12thNight.ca, 2019

Play the Fool Festival

The Play the Fool Festival is proof that when you start taking life too seriously, it’s good catharsis to simply clown around.

–  Jake Cardinal, Edmonton Scene, 2019

Play the fool, in a good way, as third annual clown festival kicks off

– Liane Faulder, Edmonton Journal, 2018

Play the Fool Festival sends in the clowns

– Jenna Marynowski, After the House Lights, 2018

The fine art of foolery: the return of Play The Fool, E-Town’s “festival of clown and physical comedy

– Liz, Nicholls, 12thNight.ca, 2018

Playing Fools with Attakkalar

– Paul Blinov, *I Don’t Get* it Podcast, 2018