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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2024 spanned 25 days, sold more than 2.6 million tickets and featured more than 51,446 scheduled performances of 3,746 different shows across 262 venues from 60 different countries.
The Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival is a programme of free entry events that takes place at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival, each August.It is organised by the comedy promoter Laughing Horse, although it includes shows of different genres.
The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards are presented to the comedy shows deemed to have been the best at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Established in 2023, awards are given to Best Show, Best Newcomer and a Panel Prize and are judged by a panel of judges [1] on a voluntary basis who see all eligible comedy shows. [2]
As any comedy obsessive will tell you, 2023 is the year of Big Clown at the Fringe. In the Pleasance Courtyard, you’ll find wacky US comic Bill O’Neill slamming his body to the ground as he ...
The Edinburgh Fringe will host to hundreds of shows in August (Jane Barlow/PA) (PA Archive) “For ONE show (1.5 hours of venue hire), it costs £200 management fee to the venue, and also £96 to ...
The Free Fringe (also known as PBH's Free Fringe, after its founder, Peter Buckley Hill) is an organisation that promotes free shows during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival, every August. Unlike most event promoters at the Fringe, the Free Fringe does not charge performers for use of performance spaces, on the ...
The number of performances varies among different fringe festivals. Larger festivals may have thousands of performances (e.g., Edinburgh's 2013 festival had 45,464 performances). [9] Fringe festivals typically have a common organising group that handles ticketing, scheduling, and some overall promotion (such as a program including all performers).
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society is the organisation that supports the running of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world.The Society was established in 1958 to provide a centralised information and box office service for the Fringe, which had grown in numbers since eight theatre companies had effectively "created" the Fringe by performing uninvited alongside ...