Edinburgh Fringe Festival

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 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.

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.

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