edinburgh

As I just mentioned, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was born in 1947 as the brainchild of a group of theatre artists who were rejected from the fledgling International Festival and responded to that rejection by, in essence, giving it the finger.  They came to Edinburgh, they found their own venues,...

I am a snob. Five years into my association with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and having just completed the second successful Festival with the venue company I co-founded and manage, I admit this: I have to grit my teeth to keep from correcting the lovely, hard-working, earnest, theatre-loving, innovation-encouraging people...