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Street performer and a bed of nails, Edinburgh Fringe
Ferguson, Richard, 2013, Digital image
Street performer and a bed of nails, Edinburgh Fringe
Street performer and a bed of nails, Edinburgh Fringe
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Street performer and a bed of nails, Edinburgh Fringe
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A street performer lies with a bed of nails on his torso and a heavy man stands on top of it.
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Ferguson, Richard
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2013
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Digital image
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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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