Not many benefits for performers and operators at Edinburgh’s Fringe
Rising costs may continue to threaten the Fringe: a performance to 120 in an early evening spot will cost £30k to put on and temporary venues suffer from a licensing regime said to be the most expensive in Britain.
Unless something has gone awry, all but the finishing touches will have been applied to the programme for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by now.
The majority of those harbouring ambitions to enter the fray at the world’s biggest arts festival this year had until the end of April to get their act together and confirm a slot in the printed programme, because to make an impact in Edinburgh in August you would be foolhardy not to be in that tome.
There has been no noticeable decline in the number of people handing out paper flyers on the Royal Mile over the last decade. If anything, the feeding frenzy on the High Street has appeared to grow with each passing year. A good reason is the seemingly unstoppable increase in the number of Fringe shows each year. There were just over 2,000 Fringe shows in the official programme five years ago. That figure had risen steadily to just shy of 2,700 last year.
Unless something has gone awry, all but the finishing touches will have been applied to the programme for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by now.
The majority of those harbouring ambitions to enter the fray at the world’s biggest arts festival this year had until the end of April to get their act together and confirm a slot in the printed programme, because to make an impact in Edinburgh in August you would be foolhardy not to be in that tome.
There has been no noticeable decline in the number of people handing out paper flyers on the Royal Mile over the last decade. If anything, the feeding frenzy on the High Street has appeared to grow with each passing year. A good reason is the seemingly unstoppable increase in the number of Fringe shows each year. There were just over 2,000 Fringe shows in the official programme five years ago. That figure had risen steadily to just shy of 2,700 last year.