Street Performer, Edinburgh Festival

Category

Library Item

Item no

11936

Title

Street performer, Royal Scottish Academy, the Mound during the Edinburgh Festival

Description

A child looks off into the distance, while behind him a man wearing a silver suit and painted entirely silver, sits very still.

Artist / maker

Ansell, Andrew J L

Date

2007

Size

26.4 x 19.7 cm

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has its roots in the attendance of eight uninvited theatre groups at the inaugural Edinburgh International Festival in 1947. This unofficial adjunct to the festival grew in both size and organisation throughout the 1950's with more and more performers coming to take advantage of the audiences drawn to the capital by the official events. By the end of the decade a well organised Festival Fringe Society had been established with a constitution, brochure, and central ticket sales. Today 'The Fringe' hosts several hundred productions each year, and ticket sales have exceeded 1.6 million.

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Street performer, Edinburgh Festival