Two years ago, a young Edinburgh theatre producer by the name of Rupert Thomson wrote a provocative article entitled Save the Festival, Axe the Fringe.
Two years ago, a young Edinburgh theatre producer by the name of Rupert Thomson wrote a provocative article entitled Save the Festival, Axe the Fringe.
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Thomson, pictured below, argued that a combination of a rise in commercialisation and a decline in artistic quality on the Fringe was threatening Edinburgh's position as the world's pre-eminent festival city.
He gave as an example his experience with an Italian theatre company he had shown around Edinburgh with a view to putting their work on at the Fringe. "They were keen to come", he wrote, "but eventually decided that the festival – and the Fringe in particular – 'didn't feel right': not enough serious theatre, too much comedy, too much emphasis on money."
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