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Edinburgh Festival
Ansell, Andrew J L, 2007, Digital image
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11927
Title
Royal Mile, West Parliament Square during Edinburgh Festival
Description
A Fringe Festival performer stands amongst people on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh dressed in a suit of armour. The armour consists of a helmet with its visor open, chain mail and armour-plate on his arm.
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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The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage
Edinburgh - Festival City
Contemporary Edinburgh in Photographs
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