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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.
About 20 cast, crew members and producers will be taking the new Ghost Light Players production of William Shakespeare's "Henry V" to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for five performances August 12 ...
This year, which is the 75th anniversary of the Fringe’s […] ‘A Little Life,’ ‘Bloody Difficult Women’ Light Up Edinburgh, While ‘Not For Everyone’ Lives Up to Its Name: The Hits ...
Unpack your pac-a-mac, fire up your funny bone and gird your loins. In fact, gird everything. It’s the Fringe.. With more than 3,500 shows – from big serious plays in proper theatres to ...
Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight was a low-budget horror parody stage show written by Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness, and starring Holness, Ayoade and Alice Lowe.The show, which spoofed Stephen King, was performed at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it was nominated for the Perrier Award.
Peter Cook. Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore.It debuted at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival and went on to play in London's West End and then in America, both on tour and on New York's Broadway in the early 1960s.
The term came into use in the late 1950s, and the show Beyond the Fringe premiered in Edinburgh in 1960, before transferring to Broadway and is the West End. One of the early innovators in fringe theatre was an American bookseller, James Haynes , who in 1963 created the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.
Plague premiered in 2008 at The Questors Theatre in Ealing, London [1] before transferring to C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival [2] where it was named a 2008 sell out show. A new production was performed at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. [3] It was again performed at C venues with London previews at Upstairs at The Gatehouse.