Side of the Green Room venue

Category

Library Item

Item no

11938

Title

Side of the Green Room venue, Cowgate, during the Edinburgh Festival

Description

A Fringe Festival venue in Edinburgh, the Green Room, has advertisments painted on the side of buildings and derelict structures. The painted advertisment is below a slate roof and is in a graffiti style. Advertising banners have been attached to the remainder of derelict brickwork.

Artist / maker

Ansell, Andrew J L

Date

2007

Size

19.7 x 26.4 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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Business > Advertising > Advertisements

Events > Festivals > Fringe Festival

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Sport and leisure > Sports and recreation facilities > Festival venues

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