For generations people have been concerned about Edinburgh Festival Fringe getting too big. But with questions about financial sustainability louder and more urgent than ever, Phil Miller asks whether it’s finally time for change.
IT is a question almost as old as the first posters for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, pasted up in Scotland's resplendent capital city in 1947: is the Festival getting too big?
Alongside another hoary old query – "Is there too much comedy in August?" – the question is a perennial one, an issue that heightens in intensity every summer, when Scotland's capital blooms like a desert flower to become the centre of the arts world, drawing a multitude of visitors, artists, companies and tourists from across the globe... Keep reading on Herald Scotland
IT is a question almost as old as the first posters for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, pasted up in Scotland's resplendent capital city in 1947: is the Festival getting too big?
Alongside another hoary old query – "Is there too much comedy in August?" – the question is a perennial one, an issue that heightens in intensity every summer, when Scotland's capital blooms like a desert flower to become the centre of the arts world, drawing a multitude of visitors, artists, companies and tourists from across the globe... Keep reading on Herald Scotland