Audiences and performers from around the world will once again have no anarchic festival home in the Scottish capital to head for this August. The vast Edinburgh festival fringe – the largest annual concentration of live comedy, drama, cabaret, music and dance – is to be restricted to just a few events and an array of online offerings in 2021. “I feel a little like a jilted lover: many of us do,” Guy Masterson – a fringe stalwart and producer.
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Honorary position for Fleabag creator
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been appointed the first president of the Edinburgh Fringe.
The honorary position means the Fleabag creator will act as a cheerleader for the Festival Fringe Society, the charity that co-ordinates the annual event, attending certain events and speaking on behalf of the society.
Waller-Bridge performed Fleabag as a one-woman play at Underbelly during the 2013 Fringe, triggering all her subsequent success.
She said: ‘The Edinburgh Fringe has staged an annual cultural revolution for decades. It’s where thousands of writers, comedians, performers and artists cut their teeth and put their most raw work out into the world.