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7 unusual facts about Edinburgh Festival Fringe


Brian Parks

Americana Absurdum was honored with the “Best Writing” award at the 1997 New York International Fringe Festival and a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Fence Records

Various festivals have also hosted Fence Nights/Showcases including Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Glasgow's West End Festival.

Kunt and the Gang

During their run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2011, Kunt was widely criticised for his marketing tactic of placing stickers of male genitalia in compromising positions on the posters of other companies.

Riaad Moosa

In 2003, he performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, headlining in the Cape Comedy Collective – “The new South Africa Stands Up” production.

Some Gorgeous Accident

A stage adaptation of Some Gorgeous Accident was presented at the Assembly Rooms as part of the Edinburgh Festival in August 2010.

Steven Fales

He has performed the play off-Broadway and across the United States and internationally at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and London's West End.

The Star Wars Trilogy in Thirty Minutes

The Star Wars Trilogy in Thirty Minutes premiered at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has returned for many years after as a festival favorite.


Alon Ilsar

In 2010, he performed with Meow Meow at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and joined Aronas, brainchild of Australian Jazz Bell Award winner, Aron Ottignon for their European tour.

Andy Field

A special Fringe First shared with The Arches for Innovating new forms of presenting work at the Edinburgh Festival, 2009

Andy Hyman

In July and August 2009, Hyman's new adaptation of the 18th century play La Dispute by Pierre Marivaux was staged at both the Old Red Lion Theatre and Soho Theatre in London, and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Broadway Baby

It contains reviews of music, comedy, theatre and dance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Brighton Fringe, Camden Fringe and year-round in London.

Danielle Ward

In 2006, Ward won the Time Outs Critic's Choice award for Best Newcomer and wrote Take A Break Tales - exaggerated adaptations of women's magazine stories - in which she appeared with Neil Edmond, Emma Fryer and Isy Suttie at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Douglas Maxwell

The play won numerous awards including a Fringe First, the Stage Award for Ensemble Acting and was nominated for The Barclaycard Stage Award for Best Touring Production.

Ecclesfield School

Ecclesfield School teachers Paul O'Farrell and Ben Smithard wrote and directed the play Exit Stage Left which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in July & August 2012.

Exit Stage Left

Exit Stage Left is a play conceived by Paul O'Farrell and Ben Smithard from Ecclesfield School, which played the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in summer 2012 chiefly using 2011 Ecclesfield School drama students.

Nicola Alexis

She recently played the lead role in the theatre adaptation of Carl Hiaasen's Lucky You, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008.

Reduced Shakespeare Company

In 1987, a friend of the company suggested that they'd find a welcome reception at the famous Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland.

The Right Size

From their earliest shows, such as Que Sera, The Bath, Flight to Finland and Moose, The Right Size often tried out productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe or London International Mime Festival, and then toured in the UK, Europe and internationally, sometimes in collaboration with the British Council.

Totally Tom

2011 saw the duo perform at Underbelly Limited at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, for which they were nominated for the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Newcomer Award.


see also

Jackie Clune

She had a part in Showstopper (1997), Bryony Lavery's play A Wedding Story (1999) and portrayed Julie Burchill, at the time a columnist for The Guardian, in the one-woman play Julie Burchill Is Away by Tim Fountain at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and in the West End (2003).

Raoul Bhaneja

In January 2006 Bhaneja debuted in Hamlet (solo), a one-man version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet directed by Robert Ross Parker, which has been performed across Canada including an engagement at The National Arts Centre in the fall of 2013, in the United Kingdom at The Assembly Rooms as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as well as in New York City on a number of occasions, including Off Broadway.