Hannah Gadsby: ‘The Edinburgh fringe might make your dreams come true – or it will give you scurvy’ | Hannah Gadsby

TWhen I took my first show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2006, I slept in a closet, performed to fewer than 100 people during my stay, got hit by a golf ball at The Meadows (that’s not a euphemism), lost an exorbitant amount of money, and cried in public three times. Coming second in […]
Risk, reward and trigger warnings: Edinburgh fringe chief on his ‘balancing act’ | Edinburgh festival

and others“Edinburgh Arts Festival is a hugely successful, global arts festival,” argues Anthony Alderson, the man behind the city’s annual Fringe festival. “The West End is the source of much of this fast-growing sector of the economy and is vital to the development of much talent.” Yet he feels that the UK does too little […]