EdFringe
It’s a wrap
#NoArtWithoutArtists as EdFringe posts 2.6 million tix
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has posted near-final figures of 2.6 million tickets issued for EdFringe 2024, along with a severe warning from Chief Executive Shona McCarthy against boring and elitist art.
Shakespeare adjacent pairings
It’s the Bard, Bill, just not as you know him
Following Necessary Cat’s brilliant pairing of Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Fringe of 2023, the Edinburgh-based company is back with Macbeth and David Greig’s Dunsinane.
Moon Dragon
★★★★★ Perfectly pitched
Combining puppetry, live music and interactive elements, Dragon Song Productions enchant their young audiences with a revamped version of their original Fringe hit, Moon Dragon, at the LifeCare Centre in Stockbridge.
#Nothing to Review Here
A look back at Edfringe’s Covid years
Four years ago, on Friday 7 August 2020, on what should have been the first day of the Edinburgh Fringe, I was on the Royal Mile with my brother, the photographer Peter Dibdin.
Summerhall reprieved as a Fringe venue
Future of whole complex not clear as sale date set.
Summerhall appears to have been reprieved as a Fringe venue for at least three years, as responsibility for running the venue element of the Summerhall complex is taken over by a new charity ahead of its sale going to a closing date of September 18, 2024.
EdFringe: Made in Edinburgh 2024
All Edinburgh’s Theatre at the Fringe in 2024
Edinburgh is once again hosting the greatest cultural event on earth. People from all over the world who work in and love the performing arts, arrive here for three weeks of brilliant drama, dance, comedy and art. Here’s the guide to Æ’s coverage of everything #MadeInEdinbugh
Edinburgh-based artists at the 2024 Festivals
Professional Edinburgh-based theatre makers in the 2024 Festivals, collated with the support of EPAD
EdFringe 2024!
Call out for Edinburgh writers and shows…
This is a big “hello” and a call out to Edinburgh’s theatre community. Do you want to review Edinburgh’s theatre at the Fringe? Are you an Edinburgh-based company at the Fringe that wants listing and reviewing?
Funky Gibbon…
Giant gibbon sculpture set to dominate Newington
A giant inflatable sculpture of a Skywalker Gibbon looks set to be the largest animal addition to the Fringe since Underbelly plonked its upside-down purple coo into Bristo Square.
Fringe names new hub
Infirmary Street venue preferred for Community Hub
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has named the South Bridge Resource Centre on Infirmary Street as its preferred site for a new Community Hub, using the £7 million allocated to it in the UK Government’s spring budget.
