Edinburgh Festival Fringe

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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, often referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe or simply the Fringe, is the world's largest performing arts festival. In 2025, it ran for 25 days, selling more than 2.6 million tickets, and featured 53,942 performances of 3,893 shows across 301 venues, with participants from 68 countries. Established in 1947 as an unofficial offshoot on the "fringe" of the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place in Edinburgh every August and is the origin of the term "fringe theatre." The combination of Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival has become a world-leading celebration of arts and culture, surpassed only by the Olympics and the World Cup in terms of global ticketed events. It is an open-access (or "unjuried") performing arts festival, meaning that there is no selection committee, and anyone may participate, with any type of performance. The official Fringe programme categorises shows into sections for theatre, comedy, dance, physical...

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