Edinburgh fringe performers feel ‘jilted’ as Covid closes venues again
Only a handful of events will be staged this year as producers complain about dithering' by council and Scottish government
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 and director of some of its most successful plays for more than two decades - told the Observer. There has been so much dithering from the city council and the Scottish government and no real recognition of what the fringe means to the Edinburgh economy."
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