by Peter Crawley 08 May 2013
The life of a festival director is one of constant motion. Regularly seeing art at home and abroad is one of the most appealing parts of the job (as anyone who has never worked as a festival director will tell you), but to those accustomed to pre-dawn flights, the threat of deep vein thrombosis, five shows a day, budget crunching, sponsorship courting, box office calculations and promotion drives, the culture of event organising requires more stamina than glamour. Yet with three high-profile manoeuvres currently on the international festival circuit, these energetic jobs never seem to lose their appeal.
Last week brought news that the 2013 Dublin Fringe Festival will mark the fifth and final programme from Director Róise Goan, who was appointed in 2008. This follows the previous week’s...