All About the Edinburgh Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is officially the biggest arts festival in the world, taking place for three weeks in August each year in Scotland's capital city. The event began in 1947 when eight theatre groups turned up uninvited to the first Edinburgh International Festival. As time went on, more artists came to Edinburgh to perform on the outskirts of the EIF, and by 1958 the Festival Fringe Society was created to provide information, a central box office and a published programme of all the shows on offer. Fundamental to its constitution was the policy that the Society should take part in no artistic vetting of the festival's programme: in other words, anyone with a story to tell and a venue willing to host them can come to Edinburgh as part of the Fringe.

The festival caters for everyone from the biggest names in showbiz to the performers in the street and covers all sorts of art forms, such as theatre, comedy, children's shows, dance, physical theatre, musicals, operas, all genres of music, exhibitions, and events.

Everything you need to know about coming to the Fringe as an artist or audience member can be found right here on edfringe.com. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.