Fringe
After nearly a decade at the helm, today it was announced that Shona McCarthy, Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, will be leaving her post in spring 2025.
Shona joined the Fringe Society in 2015 following leadership roles including, British Council Northern Ireland, Imagine Belfast 2008, and the Culture Company delivering the inaugural UK City of Culture Derry-Londonderry 2013.
The Edinburgh Fringe Society has commented on the prospect of Oasis gigs having a damaging effect on next year's Edinburgh Fringe.
The Fringe is due to take place from August 1 - 25 next year. Oasis initially announced two reunion gigs at Murrayfield Stadium on August 8 & 9, which look set to cause a huge influx of fans coming to the city. There have already been reports of hotels and airbnbs massively increasingly their price to capitalise on the demand as has happened in the past with Taylor Swift shows.
Below is an open letter from Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, Shona McCarthy.
The Neurodiverse Review Awards will be held at Just the Tonic Nucleus On the 18th of August this year. The awards reflect the dedication and exceptional talent of disabled and neurodiverse acts at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Just the Tonic Founder Darrell Martin comments: “We are so pleased to be able to offer a space for Neurodiverse Review to hold their awards this year. Our strapline is ”May All Our Voices Be Heard”, and we mean that
Before the Edinburgh Fringe began this year, John Tothill hit the headlines with the story of having deliberately contracted malaria in a clinical trial in order to fund his 2023 Edinburgh Fringe debut.
It generated so many column inches that he was delighted to find that, despite the malaria making him feel the worst he’d ever felt in his life (at the time), it ultimately not only filled his fringe show coffers, but also raised his profile quite considerably.
It’s a while since I’ve heard the words ‘nonce’ and ‘paedo’ used as a punchline.
It’s not edgy to do this, frankly it’s old fashioned.
Award winning Macedonian comedian Vlad Ilich makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut at the Pleasance Courtyard Attic for the month of August with his show ‘Vladislav, Baby Don’t Hurt Me’. In it Vlad explores his obsession with the game of chess from a very young age, in a period flagged by geopolitical tensions in the region and the looming presence of NATO and the UN...
Introducing US comedian and actor Olivia Levine who is performing her debut hour ‘Unstuck’ at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Just The Tonic @ the Mash House Bottle Room.
There’s something odd going on here. If you’ve been around the Gilded Balloon you might have run into Nate Kitch, storming out of his own show, talking to the techies about his audience – making his audience laugh from outside the door of the venue.
On power cut day Nate Kitch took his audience out into the street and carried on – attracting a bigger and bigger crowd.
Never mind the fourth wall – Nate Kitch cannot be contained by mere architecture. And never mind the rule of three.
Introducing award-winning US comedian, actress and businesswoman Natasha Pearl Hansen, who makes her Edinburgh Fringe debut with ‘The Right Amount of Wrong’.
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