Three temporary outdoor pavilions will be key to performers', artists' and audiences' safe return to Edinburgh International Festival this summer.
The purpose-built performance venues with covered concert stages and socially distanced seating will be situated at city locations including Edinburgh Park and the University of Edinburgh’s Old College Quad.
Safety measures will include shorter performances with physical distancing, regular cleaning, contactless ticketing and no intervals.
Organisers were forced to cancel last year’s festival due to the pandemic – the first time since it was established in 1947.
This year’s festival will run from August 7 to 29 and include free streamed performances as part of an ongoing commitment to accessibility.
The programme, to be announced on June 2, is expected to be more diverse than before after campaigners highlighted its “almost 90 per cent white” line-up of artists, the predominance of male performers and an absence of disabled performers.